Not too bad. Some may bemoan the lack of a second internal storage option but for me that is mitigated by the 10Gb USB ports, which can make for use of external NVME drives that can still have decent performance. It is good that they used the DDR5 RAM to squeeze all that is possible out of the single channel RAM. It would be interesting to see if it really can support 32Gb, especially with Intel specifying 16Gb as the maximum supported. The N100 certainly has become quite the deal, swaying some from ARM based SBC's. with it's run any OS out of the box with no fuss X86 platform. The competition is fierce though and $250 is likely to put some off when they see what else can be had for much less. The Beelink EQ12 is generally seen as one of the better specced models, which can often be had for closer to $200.
The Beelink EQ12 has the problem of having only 1 lane of pci-e 3.0 to internal nvme storage. The crippled bandwidth makes serial reads and writes not much faster than sata speeds
I just have one question about this pc. I currently own one and the green status light on the front is so annoying and bright, other than covering it up is there a way that you can turn this off or change the brightness of it?
It's strange to see various configuration for pci-e 3.0 lanes to m.2 ssd slot for the different n100 minipc models. This mini air has full 4 lanes, while I bought gmktec g3 which has 2 lanes (but it does have an extra sata m.2 slot). And some models have just only 1. So buyers need to be careful with that.
22H2. Outdated version. 6:50 How much CPU/GPU usage? and you could try to play youtube or other video platforms online and compare HW usage on same video. How much spyware is taxing to your mini PC and collection of people's data.
I didn't mean "extra" spyware besides OS's spyware. I was talking about e.g youtube's spyware + using partial prevetions(adblockers/trackers) how much it consumes(CPU & GPU) to play simple video compare to playing same video directly in media player e.g. VLC@@Techtablets
I'm looking to get this for my wife whom only watches videos, movies and whatnot. No gaming. One question I have, does it come pre-loaded with Windows 11 Pro? If not how do you install it? I'm old school and used to putting a disk in the drive to install (this doesn't have one).
DDR5 is two channels on each single stick of RAM. In other words, if the PC had two sticks of DDR5 RAM, that would be quad channel RAM. You criticize this computer having only single channel RAM. But that's not correct. If it uses DDR5, then it is at least dual channel.
Of course types like him always find something to complain about. $229 and expects a dedicated GPU. Next thing he would expect RTX 4090 performance for under $500 @@RomvnlyPlays
Thanks again, Chris. Looks like a decent bit of kit and great build quality for a very good price. It'll probably be enough for the basics, as you rightly point out.
I find the chuwi larkbox x perform better than this and only priced around $160 discount or $189 full price. Gaming side sucks for CSGO 2 but surprisingly stable when playing GTA 5. I would rather play valorant and dota 2 than the more unoptimized CSGO.
I'm using Melee Quieter 4c with N100 16GB RAM, I use Velcro to attach to under my desk, connected to two screens, changed L1 to 12W and L2 to 24W and works perfectly fine with Linux Mint, no lag nothing, perfect. Temp are around 50 when listen music, watching video, web-browsing and 77C temp at Max CPU/GPU Use and that very good. With Windows is a little bit different, it's better to do a clean installation of the OS. Download zip package drivers from official site, unzip and at system settings show all missing drivers location of that folder and windows will recognize and install missing drivers.
Do I understand correctly that it's literally impossible to get this to run in dual channel? And does the usb c support power in (single cable operation)?
Impossible with only one Sodimm slot. As for the sable it doesn't no this is an entry level machine so none of the more top end features like full spec USB C with PD support.
The CPU doesn't support dual channel memory, but it's not really a problem in practice. Not sure about this specific mini PC but some certainly do support USB-PD, even my N5100 works with a single USB-C cable.
Lots of people are confused, not caught up with the newer tech. For DDR5, the mcc is located on the RAM chip itself. Each DDR5 stick of ram runs two channels. If the CPU is only capable of controlling single channel RAM, that would be a limitation that only applies to systems that use DDR4 RAM. As I understand it, this particular model uses DDR5. Therefore, it would be impossible to operate it in single channel RAM mode.
@@Techtablets well the gmktec g3 16gb/512gb model is 200$ on their site, but there are tradeoffs for that price. So the price for mini air12 seems decent I think.
@@der_bruehl I saw some people on Reddit with 48 Gb reported, and logically there are 2 lines from CPU to RAM, so up to 32 Gb per each. And hello to Intel with their marketing first strategy even on "official specs".
It depends what are you comparing against. n100 is like 40-50% faster than raspberry pi 5, In fact its performance is comparable to 6th or 7th gen i5. Better IO capabilities and better software support than pi.
What? No, the 1132/3000 score in GB puts it into the top among N100 mini PCs, check the GB browser. I think Chris undersells it somewhat, it's not fast by any means but it's perfectly fine even for like Photoshopping your vacation photos or editing 1080p videos and stuff like that. The GPU is the same as the previous gen so not an improvement there, but it's enough to emulate a lot of games.
