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KAMRUI Essenx E1 N150 Mini PC (2025 Model) on sale for $156.86 - $23.53 when you apply promo code
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Now $133.45.
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Specs:
- Intel N150 4-Cores / 4 Thread Processor, 15W TDP, 3.6GHz Burst
- 16GB DDR4 RAM (1x DDR4 SO-DIMM)
- 512GB M.2 Solid State Drive
- 802.11ac Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
- Windows 11 Pro 64-Bit
- 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
- 3.96" x 3.96" x 1.57"
- VESA mountable
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If you buy this and you are planning to reinstall windows. Please copy the drivers off the Windows folder first to an external drive or USB.
Copy everything in this folder "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository"
After install, you can simply point device manager to the copy of this folder, then click update driver and it will install the correct drivers.
It's also where I found out that most of these minipc companies are the same outfit. Box had kamrui on it, support replied from a GMKtek account, and when I returned it the address went to an Acemagic location.
I then wrote a perfectly fair review of my experience, and kamrui had amazon remove it for "not meeting community standards". Which is not unique when it comes to these products. About 90% of the critical reviews I bought were either removed or the manufacturer offered me money to delete the review. They also do not allow an ebay buyer to review the product.
So those great reviews, and the lack of complaints, and people suggesting that problems with these devices are rare, don't believe them.
The only one that hasn't sucked is minisforum. I've never dealt with their customer service, but the products I own don't have compatibility problems nor do they overheat.
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Yes this is much more powerful than a raspberry pi. It has a fairly decent single core perf too.
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It's obviously not very elegant, but I have no qualms about having an external fan. I just like functionality.
If not what's a good recommendation I have an aged laptop that barely runs for this task.
Reviews of N150can show peculiar hot spots when on motherboard.
The N150s also don't work well with DDR4 (which this OP unit has - and SSD)
In an odd number of tests the N100 does better but DDR5 helps N150 more.
Of course with tech hardware changing a model number and/or name (just call something "Predator" gets more sales
There is another unit with 8GB of RAM, again NOT the same thing.
You can't find anything with 16GB of RAM at this price point.
Every time something is posted on SD, Some people just sit there and start bashing it without ever owning it. No HDMI crowd.
I bought 2 of these and replaced a Plex Server with it.
While streaming and transcoding video (it uses the hardware transcoding thanks to Plex Pass), I'm also at the same time remoted into it from another station, and running VMWare with an Ubuntu Distro without any lags.
This is a more than capable machine.
If not what's a good recommendation I have an aged laptop that barely runs for this task.
It's decent but overkill. Install Linux on your laptop and it'll fly.
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It's also where I found out that most of these minipc companies are the same outfit. Box had kamrui on it, support replied from a GMKtek account, and when I returned it the address went to an Acemagic location.
I then wrote a perfectly fair review of my experience, and kamrui had amazon remove it for "not meeting community standards". Which is not unique when it comes to these products. About 90% of the critical reviews I bought were either removed or the manufacturer offered me money to delete the review. They also do not allow an ebay buyer to review the product.
So those great reviews, and the lack of complaints, and people suggesting that problems with these devices are rare, don't believe them.
The only one that hasn't sucked is minisforum. I've never dealt with their customer service, but the products I own don't have compatibility problems nor do they overheat.
I bought 2 of these and am running both with NVME drives without any need to update the drivers. I hated the fact that they came with M2 SSD which is literally like 2$ cheaper but much slower than NVME.
NO IT DOESN'T RUN HOT and NO THE FANS ARE NOT NOISY.
If I didn't see that you had such a high rep I would have thought you were working for a competitor like MinisForum who you just tried to rep. For someone to be pushing MinisForum, literally the only outfit that was caught with malware installed on their minipc is an Hmmm moment.
I didn't even bother reinstalling per say. I just took my plex server drive which was a SATA SSD, cloned it using DiskGenius onto an NVME drive.
You not understanding why Windows or the BIOS can't boot from your drive is USER ERROR, and nothing to do with the PC. It is more likely that you had a LEGACY boot setting on your windows install instead of UEFI.
Initially it didn't recognize my cloned drive because my original server was still running legacy BIOS setting. So unless you go into the Bios and switch to legacy boot, it won't show up in the list of boot devices.
All I did was boot into Windows recovery and run bcdboot switch command to create the EFI boot files in the System Partition (small 100-500MB partition in front of main windows partition) on my existing plex server drive. DONE.
Booted up on NVME drive without an issue. Fully migrated my PLEX Server OS in 10 minutes without having to do any Plex DB restores or any of that.
I'm running 2 of these units with NVME drives installed without a single BIOS update needed.
Yes, the rubber feet has to be pulled off to get to the screws, but I just pressed them back on. It's a tack like glues so unless you scrapped it off, then it will reattach.
If anyone is considering buying these, ignore the noise from those who don't understand how Windows works. This machine is way better than I expected.
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