Nowaday unker see many mini PC China brand very cheap.

However the downside is bloat and malware.

Because of that unker resort to buy used Branded Ang Moh mini PC.

Anyone bought China Mini PC brand without bloatware/malware or virus?

I bought Thunderobot Mix Mini PC without any malware or bloat.

Minisforum, GMK Tec are good China mini PC brand.

a few cwwk n5105 for pfsense/proxmox/esxi/truenas
gmktec k8 for batocera

if you're concerned about bloatware/malware, just reinstall the OS/buy without SSD
or if you're really paranoid, check about reflashing the bios with coreboot

Bought 2... GMK G5 and non branded T9Plus...

No complaints from me being a full system at RM6xx complete with Windows (dont know if its legit or not but it activate just fine).

GMK has N97 + 12gb ddr5 + 500gb m.2 while T9Plus has N100 + 16gb ddr5 + 500gb m.2 as well. What really surprised me is their size...

What bloatware are you talking about? Its clean...

this thread make me plan suggest my relative for new pc, he keep asking me any pc that less that 1.5k

Use your own ssd, install os of choice

If used banyak option. Can get laptop 10-13th gen for that budget.

As long as not Acemagic brand which has news articles of actual malware

You should be fine

My beelink mini pc just arrived late this afternoon. Not sure about bloatware etc as my win11 still in Chinese language. Tomorrow I think I will have to download win11 and reinstall. I think after format and reinstalling a fresh copy of windows, all bloat and malware, if any, also will be wiped out right?

Btw my mini pc is Beelink Ser8 8745HS (Ryzen 7) with 32gb Ram and 1TB of ssd.

This post has been edited by N9484640: Jan 6 2025, 12:44 AM

I thought you want 8845? How come still buying 8745?

Actually Lunar Lake mini pc coming out liao but the price fuiyoh... scary shit...

Usage?

Many mini pc are sub 50w thus offering limited amount of performance due to the power limit especially if you plan to game.

Just normal surfing, video, homework, and skype/google meet

Then dont take the low power Intel N series. These dont multitask well especially if you use video conferencing.

no i wanted the 8745 .... cause cheaper

I see... you dont want the NPU la. The price difference is just RM200 or so only is it?

I read several reviews says no point having the npu. They even say the 8845 runs slower than the 8745. Anyway I use this pc to play some games only. Won't be using any AI stuff.

I think price difference is RM400. Btw Beelink website got sale now.

This post has been edited by N9484640: Jan 6 2025, 08:30 AM

Game? Why not wait for strix point? Hawk Point not that good right? But also quite skeptical of AMD rumours... sometimes always hype beat this beat that, at the end, meh... now quit competing with Nvidia

Few day ago just walk to secondhand shop, found a branded used desktop, seem worth, 1.3+k i5 10 gen, 2x8GB 256GB MVNE, 1TB HDD

But MNVE is Kingston 256GB RBUSNS8154P3256GJ1, i dunno what model, google seem is cheap SSD

Not worth la. Top up a bit can get those mini pc with Ryzen 7 8845HS 16/32GB with 1TB SSD.

He don have more budget to up a bit
Even i say new set new nearly 2k over he budget