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GMKtec-US via Amazon has
GMKtec NucBox G3 Plus Mini PC on sale for
$125.93.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter
phoinix for finding this deal.
Specs:
- Intel Twin Lake N150 4-cores, 4-threads (3.6GHz) Processor
- 8GB DDR4 3200 MHz Memory (32GB max)
- 256GB PCIe 3.0 M.2 2280 NVMe Solid State Drive
- 2TB max M.2 2242 SATA (Not Included)
- Intel UHD 1000MHz Graphics
- WiFi 6 802.11ax +Bluetooth 5.2
- Windows 11 Pro
- Ports:
- 4x USB 3.2 up to 5Gbps
- 2x HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz)
- 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
Warranty: 1-Year Limited
Top Comments
The system is all Intel (and Realtek for dumb reasons).
You can go to intel and download:
Intel:
Intel HID Event Filter (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ement.htm
Intel Serial IO (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ws-10.html)
Intel Chipset (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ility.htm
Intel Ethernet Controller (https://www.intel.com/content/www...-pack.html)
Realtek:
Realtek-RTL8852BE (You have to google this; it's weirdly hard to find. I got it from Lenovo)
or just use Linux and everything Just Works®
If you do a fresh install of Win 11 Pro 2024H2, four devices will not have drivers after finishing the installation, and unfortunately, the regular NIC and WNIC are among the four. So no way to bootstrap this WITHOUT bringing in at least one of the xNIC drivers externally, for example, via a USB drive or by previously adding it to the ISO.
But the four missing drivers in question can be obtained from Microsoft's own WHQL/Update Catalog, and all together, they total less than 3MB!
Details/URLs for dowloading the < 3MB of drivers from Microsoft can be found in the other thread at:
https://slickdeals.net/f/18083728-prime-members-gmktec-nucbox-g3-plus-mini-pc-intel-n150-8gb-ram-256gb-ssd-130-free-shipping?p=1755
$129 and delivery tommorow
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The system is all Intel (and Realtek for dumb reasons).
You can go to intel and download:
Intel:
Intel HID Event Filter (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ement.htm
Intel Serial IO (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ws-10.html)
Intel Chipset (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ility.htm
Intel Ethernet Controller (https://www.intel.com/content/www...-pack.html)
Realtek:
Realtek-RTL8852BE (You have to google this; it's weirdly hard to find. I got it from Lenovo)
or just use Linux and everything Just Works®
The system is all Intel (and Realtek for dumb reasons).
You can go to intel and download:
Intel:
Intel HID Event Filter (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ement.htm
Intel Serial IO (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ws-10.html)
Intel Chipset (https://www.intel.com/content/www...ility.htm
Intel Ethernet Controller (https://www.intel.com/content/www...-pack.html)
Realtek:
Realtek-RTL8852BE (You have to google this; it's weirdly hard to find. I got it from Lenovo)
or just use Linux and everything Just Works®
Not all mini pc's have it. One company was caught adding it to the operating system. I am sure someone will eventually chime in about not trusting the bios. When you ask them to provide details about which companies specifically have been caught spiking the bios of mini pc's, you won't hear a peep from them because it is just a theory that it COULD happen.
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It's very weird that this company releases all their drivers only on Google Drive. Only as a zip. And that the zip file is nearly 1GiB for what should only be ~50MiB of drivers. What's the other 800MiB of stuff?
Anyway, why would I, after a fresh install, go out of my way to add extra unneeded junk back to the machine when you can get all of the drivers directly from the hardware manufacturer? Even if I did trust them (which I have no reason to, which to be fair, I don't really trust any company).
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