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Thoughts anyone?

My old desktop gave up the ghost a while ago. Like most, I had been saving regularly, for that time and like most, had dipped into that fund for 'something important'!

So I bought a mini PC on Amazon for less than £80.00 to keep me going.

It runs of W10 pro and was initially, painfully slow. Once I'd gotten rid of the bloat, its improved considerably and is now similar to my tablet.

But it has put me in love with the Mini PC concept.

There are loads of different types and makes out there. The better ones can be upgraded, much like a laptop. Prices range from my £80.00 to a couple of grand

Does anyone have any experience of these? Are there any manufacturer's who have produced some good products?

I appreciate Apple have won some note with a couple of theirs, but unless it comes with a large team of wild horses........

My personal preferences are quite wide. I mostly use mine for communication and research. But I did spend a good while, playing that Witcher game, so some limited gaming capability is probably a good idea.

Look forward to any views and comments.
 
Lately at work I tested a mini-PC from MSI.

Though no longer a fan of MSI -at least for their low quality desktop PCs, testing a few dozens per month eventually does that...- I liked the performance of that mini-PC.

I believe it was one of the MSI Cubi N series, have a look at the specs and compare it with other systems.
 
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I have a HP mini desk and i find it works good.. I do like the fact it has 5 g wifi..
Thank you for your response. Had a look at the HP offerings, very nice.

I see they offer both Intel and AMD. May I ask, which you opted for?

I confess all my PCs to daye have used Intel, but recently been reading that AMD are the big kid on the block, for the moment.

I will appreciate your thoughts.
 
Lately at work I tested a mini-PC from MSI.

Though no longer a fan of MSI -at least for their low quality desktop PCs, testing a few dozens per month eventually does that...- I liked the performance of that mini-PC.

I believe it was one of the MSI Cubi N series, have a look at the specs and compare it with other systems.
Thank you for your response.

I'm quite concerned about build quality. I know Asus and HP both have good reputations in this regard. What is your opinion of MSI's build? Especially with your doubtd expressed on their desktops?
 
I used to consider MSI as a good quality build.
Unfortunately experience changed that:

Systems with defective O/B graphics had a Video Card added and sold as brand new.
"Gaming" rigs with abysmal performance.
I had systems with 2 HDDs, and one defective returned as "repaired" : Just the defective HDD was taken out, so..."repaired".

I think the MSI desktops are on par with the MEDION brand of notebooks: avoid at all cost.

MSI notebooks are still good though, and that little mini desktop was a pleasant surprise.
 
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