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I got one of these when it was briefly posted here a couple of weeks ago.
You are right, the ram is not upgradeable but it reports as DDR5. The SSD is upgradeable, size 2242 M.2, mine came with an SATA drive but it took a larger NVME just fine. The WiFi card (Realtek 8821CE) is replaceable but I have not done that. Windows seems legit, and plain vanilla. Very quiet, I have had no issues. The bottom cover is a bit difficult to remove, just be careful when pulling it off over the ports. I wish it had a USB-C port, but I do not think any N95/N100 PCs have those.
If you google T8 mini computer you will find this same T8 Plus PC (and the Older T8 Pro) under different brands.
I got it in about a week, but there was no tracking/shipping info sent. I am pleased.
It's about as fast as a 2012-era Xeon X3-1240 (picture a 3.3-3.7 ghz quad core i5 of the era..), or a late-2017-era i3-8100 in Passmark scores. People coded on that stuff back in the day plenty, and did great work.
It's about 1/3 the speed of a modern i3-13100 CPU.
To me this would make a great Plex Server machine (with Plexpass to use the iGPU for all the heavy lifting - I wouldn't try without PP).
On their website, there's pictures of people coding. Are these really powerful enough for that?
It's about as fast as a 2012-era Xeon X3-1240 (picture a 3.3-3.7 ghz quad core i5 of the era..), or a late-2017-era i3-8100 in Passmark scores. People coded on that stuff back in the day plenty, and did great work.
It's about 1/3 the speed of a modern i3-13100 CPU.
To me this would make a great Plex Server machine (with Plexpass to use the iGPU for all the heavy lifting - I wouldn't try without PP).
I used to jump for this reason, but the MiBox S handles everything I can imagine for $60, with a superior remote. 4k 10 bit HDR with DDP 5.1? Yeah, no problem. KODI gives you as much or as little interface tweaking as you desire... and hiding the unit in a drawer or taped to the back of a TV/stand and not having to touch it for years on end? It's got that as well.
RIP my HTPC collection..
Do you have a link? Where do you acquire MiBox S for $60.
I used to jump for this reason, but the MiBox S handles everything I can imagine for $60, with a superior remote. 4k 10 bit HDR with DDP 5.1? Yeah, no problem. KODI gives you as much or as little interface tweaking as you desire... and hiding the unit in a drawer or taped to the back of a TV/stand and not having to touch it for years on end? It's got that as well.
RIP my HTPC collection..
Unfortunately, it's $100 now, not $60. The Mecool is $90. Glad you're happy, but you got a deal.
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That HP burns energy. Probably will be 20W compared to 9W for this machine.
Idle on the my mini PC's are between 7-9W on the 3 I've had (6500T, 8100T, 8500T) with 2x16GB RAM and a 500GB SATA SSD.
Load will obviously be higher though. Biggest issue with this is the soldered RAM. It's fine for basic stuff, but if you plan on doing any type of server or docker stuff, you'll quickly wish you could add more.
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You are right, the ram is not upgradeable but it reports as DDR5. The SSD is upgradeable, size 2242 M.2, mine came with an SATA drive but it took a larger NVME just fine. The WiFi card (Realtek 8821CE) is replaceable but I have not done that. Windows seems legit, and plain vanilla. Very quiet, I have had no issues. The bottom cover is a bit difficult to remove, just be careful when pulling it off over the ports. I wish it had a USB-C port, but I do not think any N95/N100 PCs have those.
If you google T8 mini computer you will find this same T8 Plus PC (and the Older T8 Pro) under different brands.
I got it in about a week, but there was no tracking/shipping info sent. I am pleased.
N100 has the same CPU performance with more iGPU cores and much lower TDP (15w vs 6w)
I think it's better to get the N100 from AliExpress.
It's about 1/3 the speed of a modern i3-13100 CPU.
To me this would make a great Plex Server machine (with Plexpass to use the iGPU for all the heavy lifting - I wouldn't try without PP).
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$120.99 total no tax but I had to use PayPal
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It's about 1/3 the speed of a modern i3-13100 CPU.
To me this would make a great Plex Server machine (with Plexpass to use the iGPU for all the heavy lifting - I wouldn't try without PP).
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N100 has the same CPU performance with more iGPU cores and much lower TDP (15w vs 6w)
I think it's better to get the N100 from AliExpress.
RIP my HTPC collection..
RIP my HTPC collection..
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Load will obviously be higher though. Biggest issue with this is the soldered RAM. It's fine for basic stuff, but if you plan on doing any type of server or docker stuff, you'll quickly wish you could add more.
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