NEO Z83-4 Max, Intel Cherry Trail Fanless Mini PC Windows 10 (64-bit) [4GB/128GB/Dual-Band Wi-Fi/Gigabit Ethernet/Dual Output/4K]. Sold Directly by MINIX® Technology Limited.

Absolutely brilliant mini PC. Like many, I was sceptical that this all looked too good to be true. But I'm now using it for all daily computing, and it is just fantastic.It arrived in a lovely, high quality sturdy box which inspires confidence. The Minix itself is very well-built, with a mixture of metal and high quality plastics, along with soft grippy rubber feet and a single, subtle LED. It is silent in operation, and you really have to smoosh your ear into the casing to hear the faintest of sounds in there (probably the internal power supply). It doesn't get hot, even under full load only ever so slightly warm.Performance is great, and gets better with time as my web cache builds up, and Windows prefetch gets sorted. After almost a week now, it's as fast as any desktop PC I've used for general computing (web browsing, video playback, word processing). Bootup is remarkably fast from power off,t but because there is no hard disk drive or fan, you can just use sleep instead of shut down anyway, so in real life startup is instant.Power consumption is miniscule, around 2 watts, compared with 1-200 watts for a normal PC which has to power a spinning hard drive, plus fans for PSU and processor. It makes you feel free to leave it on, or just sleep, and know you won't notice it in your power bills and won't wear it out due to lack of moving parts. I guess in the very long term the eMMC internal storage will wear out, but that'll be many, many years down the line.I don't download a lot, so the lack of internal storage isn't really an issue, but I got a 128GB SD card just for the hell of it. Since I mainly use Netflix, Google Play Music, Google Docs and Kodi (Exodus), I don't store much/anything locally. If you do, the SD card will be fine.RAM-wise it seems fine. Right now I have open a Kodi HD stream and 4 Chrome tabs including an HD YouTube video, and I'm only using 2.6 of 3.8GB user-accessible RAM. This is obviously not a computer for those wanting to do video editing or full on gaming, but for most photo editing it's fine, and mobile games via the Microsoft Store are fine.I also found it very comforting that Minix is highly responsive to user feedback, and has a super active forum (minxforums.com) with helpful users and staff patrolling the boards helping out. They have already issued a few BIOS updates which most PC/board manufacturers do extremely rarely. This, coupled with the 2 year warranty and the vast amount of positive press for this computer all over the web, made this a very comfortable, confident purchase for me, and I'm really enjoying using it.I use it with 2 peripherals: Logitech K400, which works superbly, can put the computer in out of sleep and operates everything perfectly (get Logitech Options software to customise fully), and an MX3 Airmouse which works very well after some fiddling, but this is the fault of the remote and not the Minix!I really can't find anything to criticise this box for. If you have normal light computing needs, this is just ideal - no need to run a whole tower like I used to, but being Windows 10 you still have all the capabilities and compatibility that entails. I absolutely love it.

This is a good device, no doubt about that.The packaging and presentation was a level higher than I was expecting. It comes in a really nice box and you plug it in and it jumps right into the last few steps of Windows setup. So it's really easy to get started. Somehow I thought this would be more fiddly.The machine is really small. A silent 10cm square. A full Windows PC in a small box. It runs on the rather hot side of warm, but that doesn't seem to cause a problem. It reminds me of thin-client type machines from days passed. I enjoy the silence when working on it, for sure.The performance level offered is.. interesting. I use it for Remote Desktop and a bit of web browsing and it does both *just about* acceptably, whilst also being noticeably slower than a normal machine. e.g. it does fine at rendering web pages, but maybe slightly sluggish when switching around a lot of tabs or going in and out of full screen videos. But at the same time as struggling a little, it still works well enough.If you were in a mood to get annoyed by any lack of performance, it might annoy you. But given a little patience, it will do the job and give you the feeling that you're achieving a lot while using just about the minimum amount of power possible. That's quite a fun feeling.So I actually use this on my day-job, working on it all day, using Remote Desktop to another machine in the office. It does this good-enough. I do get some painful screen redrawing occasionally but I still live with it okay. I find it quite amusing to be able to do my full time job sitting at a machine with a power level that's about equivalent to a mobile phone. I wonder if my boss would be mad if he knew that.I am also running a service on it. The machine has been on 24/7 since I bought it, exactly 3 months ago now, with me using it during working hours and a service running all day and night. In that time, I barely noticed any full reboot type crashes. Maybe there were one or two, but it fits my definition of "stable enough".Something to be aware of is 32GB of drive space for the OS is not much space. You couldn't install endless software on this thing. I think you need a purpose for it in mind, install what you need for that, and then no more. It wouldn't take long at all to run out of space. Likewise, I think Windows-updates themselves are going to eventually cause a problem. Sooner or later there would not be enough space to install further updates. (also, installing them on this is seriously slow. Keeping this up to date in any long term is perhaps a significant issue.)So. It think it is a useful machine which is undoubtedly good at what it does, but requires a disciplined user who can work within limitations.