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Prime Members: KAMRUI Essenx E1 Mini PC: Intel N150, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Win 11 Pro
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KAMRUI-Chain via Amazon has for Prime Members: KAMRUI Essenx E1 N150 Mini PC (2025 Model) on sale for $157.99 - $23.70 when you apply promo code 3UDQBYBG at checkout = $134.29. Shipping is free.
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KAMRUI-Chain via Amazon has for Prime Members: KAMRUI Essenx E1 N150 Mini PC (2025 Model) on sale for $157.99 - $23.70 when you apply promo code 3UDQBYBG at checkout = $134.29. Shipping is free.
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- Intel N150 4-Cores / 4 Thread 6W Processor w/ up to 3.6GHz Turbo frequency (Twin Lake-N)
- 512GB M.2 Solid State Drive (1x M.2 2280 slot w/ support for up to 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe3.0 / M.2 SATA SSDs)
- 16GB DDR4 RAM (1x DDR4 SO-DIMM slot w/ max support for up to 16GB DDR4 3200MHz module)
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
- Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit
- Cooling: 2300 RPM Fan
- VESA mountable
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A
- 2x USB 2.0 Type A
- 1x HDMI 2.0 (supports up to 4K 60Hz)
- 1x DisplayPort v1.4 (supports up to 4K 60Hz)
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
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- This price matches a Frontpage Deal in May.
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Update: This popular deal is still available.
KAMRUI-Chain via Amazon has for Prime Members: KAMRUI Essenx E1 N150 Mini PC (2025 Model) on sale for $157.99 - $23.70 when you apply promo code 3UDQBYBG at checkout = $134.29. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal.
KAMRUI-Chain via Amazon has for Prime Members: KAMRUI Essenx E1 N150 Mini PC (2025 Model) on sale for $157.99 - $23.70 when you apply promo code 3UDQBYBG at checkout = $134.29. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter phoinix for finding this deal.
- Note: You must be logged in to clip coupons; coupons are typically for one-time use.
- Intel N150 4-Cores / 4 Thread 6W Processor w/ up to 3.6GHz Turbo frequency (Twin Lake-N)
- 512GB M.2 Solid State Drive (1x M.2 2280 slot w/ support for up to 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe3.0 / M.2 SATA SSDs)
- 16GB DDR4 RAM (1x DDR4 SO-DIMM slot w/ max support for up to 16GB DDR4 3200MHz module)
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
- Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit
- Cooling: 2300 RPM Fan
- VESA mountable
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A
- 2x USB 2.0 Type A
- 1x HDMI 2.0 (supports up to 4K 60Hz)
- 1x DisplayPort v1.4 (supports up to 4K 60Hz)
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet
- 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this Deal:
- Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
- This price matches a Frontpage Deal in May.
- About this Store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
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Before doing the install I highly suggest you find your Windows 11 key just in case you need it. Mine didn't ask for it but you never know if you'll need it for activation. I used #3 the Registry file method.
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It'd see it in the bios, but wouldn't install bootable windows. Every time the setup process restarted, it'd go to 'windows didn't start correctly'.
Wiped the drive, fresh partitions, more than once and that was as far as it got. Kamrui recommended a skeevy bios update that was to address nvme drives not working with the device. Downloaded from a google drive, and the two apps on it looked like 1990's dos box apps. The one to retrieve and restore the product key didn't work at all. The bios updater did but didn't report old/new versions. Same behavior after that.
The included m.2 drive is sata, and it's slower than EMMC that I've used. Slower than a lot of hard drives. So whatever ya do, don't pay them big bucks for 1tb or 2tb of bog slow sata storage.
I've seen a lot of this lately, Really old stuff getting pulled out of US warehouses and sold with a few updated parts to make it seem new. I'd have thought that we'd be all out of sata/m.2 motherboards and drives by now.
The support is terrific too. Blocked my three star review on amazon and tried to make me delete it before they'd do a return, but amazon did the return anyway. Kamrui also is the same as acemagic and a handful of others that all seem to sell the same sorts of minipcs. Minisforum and to a lesser extent Beelink seem to be somewhat legit. Not these other guys.
Edit: These #$#$ers are still emailing me, offering me $ to delete the review. I'd blocked them from sending me stuff on amazon messaging, so they dug up my email address. Unreal. "we'll put some crap parts in it and then spend hours and dollars trying to stop people from saying what it can and can't do."
Everything worked except it couldn't find any 'Network Adaptors" so no Wifi. I continued with "no internet" option until complete. I went to my old computer and got the wifi drivers here: https://download.lenovo
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You get faster DDR5 ram, dual 2.5gbit intel nics, usbc power, newer wifi and bluetooth
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For many years, these super low-end, budget systems have been the sort where you /could/ make them work for you, but only if you were an expert/tech professional, because you would really need to heavily modify the OS and disable a lot of security/update features for them to be usable at all. With all that being said, once you did that, the result would generally be a fairly usable and reliable system.
Starting with the N100 a few years back, that all changed. For the price, these chips are on another level. The N150 is the latest update of the N100 chip, and is slightly faster/more power efficient - very slightly - but otherwise the same. They really hit the sweet spot on this, and there's a reason you see so many of these types of mini-PC's floating around for around the $150 price point. You should probably still be at a level of tech competence where you are comfortable reinstalling and configuring Windows to get any sort of meaningful/reliable use out of these, but they are powerful enough to happily chug along on a fairly standard install now without too much tweaking.
For your average user (that is probably you), this is more than enough computer for anything you will ever do. It will be quiet and can probably just be left idling 24/7 without too much issue or noise from fans. It will take up very little space on your desk. It will handle a million browser tabs and play back videos or open Word documents without breaking a sweat. It will also consume very little power. These are really awesome little systems for anyone looking for a basic machine to perform daily tasks.
If you're an advanced user, you can really squeeze a lot out of these tiny boxes. I was actually able to install Fedora on one of these without too many issues, and then used it to download and compile Android from source without any problem. Yeah, it took a while, but it can do it, which is honestly amazing for $150. It has a full-fat version of the Intel video codecs, so video playback and transcoding (for the Plex/Jellyfin folks out there) will work incredibly well - fast, quiet, and energy efficient.
The form factor (combined with the power and price) also really opens the door to making all sorts of "appliances" - aka dedicated systems for plugging into a TV, doing home automation, running servers, etc. I would go as far as to say that these little systems absolutely eat up the Raspberry Pi's market - I see no need for that kind of a platform anymore when things like this exist.
This would also be a great little system to get for your kid if they are starting to get into computers. Plenty of stuff here for them to tweak and learn with, and it's not like you're so out of pocket if it manages to break or something.
Overall, strong recommendation for these if you have a fitting use case.
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