GMKtecMini PC N150, G3 Plus Intel Twin Lake N150 (3.4GHz), 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB PCIe M.2 SSD, Desktop Computer 4K Dual HDMI/USB3.2/WiFi 6/BT5.2/2.5G RJ45

It came on time and was well packaged. The mini Pc came with an HDMI cable and a power cable. Setting it up was easy and straightforward. The speed is good and it's a reasonable buy for people who want to use it for surfing the internet. The build quality is good also. It has four USB ports and two HDMI ports. It has good brightness. So far, the heat level is good, with no issues.

For a long time, my 88 year-old mother had an older computer that she only used for simple tasks like browsing the web and typing documents. With Windows 10 security updates expiring, she needed an upgrade. This is perfect for her needs. It comes with Windows 11 Pro. Setting it up for her so that it worked closely like what she was used to did take some time, but that is Microsoft. It boots fast and reliably. It has good video. It has 4 USB-A sockets, so everything she had before plugged in and worked. Wi-Fi is quick and reliable. It has a very small footprint. Overall, I was exactly what she needed, and with the low price, I can say we are very happy with the purchase.

I needed to replace a Intel Nuc that I had in the garage for for my Laser engrave using Lightburn. This was a winner from the very beginning. It is a small machine that could fit behind the monitor leaving plenty of desk space. It handles all tasks and general productivity,This could be our primary machine if you don't do gaming. If you are a person that does media streaming , online shopping, pay your bills, a conspiracy theorist that "does their own research" This is an excellent computer for you. I would replace the gaming computer but i still game. I am telling you that you no longer need that tower computerThis box has 4 E-cores (efficiency) and enough GPU oomph to handle any media you may want to play back, and almost any productivity task you may throw at it. Again anything you can do on a computer with the exception of gaming and maybe heavy video editing photo shop works great, trading platform work great .Setup was almost instantaneous, and didn't require walking through a Microsoft account. You can simply create a local account and hit the ground running with Windows 11 Pro (a pro license at this cost is great!) Painless setup and immediate use mean that if you're deploying this for someone else you'll have little to worry about.The low power usage is also worth noting, and makes this a great small box for everything from casual use to productivity, to a child's learning tool to an always-on device in studio (which is what I will use it for).

GMKtec G3 PLUS 8gb memory, 256gb storageI had been looking for a backup for my three year old Lenovo laptop in the event that it might quit on me in the middle of doing my taxes. I didn’t want something that cost more than a couple of hundred dollars – just something that might be able to take over in the midst of a crisis. I read a few dozen reviews of these mini PCs and most of them were far more powerful and expensive than what I needed.But around Christmas, Amazon had a deal on the GMKtec G3 PLUS mini with an N150 chip, 8 gigs of ram and a 256 gig storage drive. It clicked all my buttons. It arrived quickly (Thanks Amazon!) and I started it up within a few days.The first thing I noticed was the Windows 11 Pro operating system. I’ve never used that flavor of Windows before and found some differences from my Lenovo laptop which was upgraded from Windows 10 Home to Windows 11 Home. The other thing I found was that despite its presumably slower processor (than the Lenovo Core 5) it is pretty zippy. Nothing seemed slower or more cumbersome than what I was used to. Last, I noticed that this small green box on my desk never makes a peep – apparently there is no fan necessary to dispense heat from the processor.Plusses- This thing is tiny. It is as quiet as a church mouse, has plenty of ports (four USB3 and two HDMI ports) and takes up very little landscape on my desk.- The GMKtec G3 Plus processor is more powerful than I expected. I have one huge Excel file that contains over 20 thousand rows of data and I tested my new box by sorting the rows in different ways. It didn’t pause a bit – almost scary how fast it handles data. Again, versus my Lenovo’s Core 5 processor, I noticed no difference.- The operating system is Windows 11 Pro. I’ve never needed a Pro edition of Windows before, so I’m not sure if this is a plus or a minus. See note below about SMB access.- This dynamo is so quick at doing things that I’ve changed out my Lenovo laptop as my main machine and now use this. I keep 90% of my work on a network drive, so accessing what I need is easy, regardless of which computer I’m working on. But the extra room this small box gives me on my desk made this switch inevitable. There seems to be no downside to moving from a 12 gig Intel 5 laptop to this GMKtec.- Support is really on-the-ball. I contacted them via email over a minor issue and they got back to me within a few hours. That is extraordinary.Minuses- This is picky, but I wish GMKtec had designed the box around a USB-C power supply. Instead, they provided a fairly large power brick with a proprietary plug. Not a huge deal, but most of my laptop computers and Chromebooks take USB-C power inputs.- Windows 11 Pro will not connect to two older Buffalo NAS devices. The error seems to be connected to an issue with SMB1. No problem connecting to my newer Synology and UGreen NAS drives, but I cannot for the life of me get the GMKtec to talk to those older drives. My Lenovo laptop, running Windows 11 (not Pro) has no problem at all. This might not be an issue with GMKtec, so this, too, is a minor point.All in all, this GMKtec is an incredible bargain. It is small, sleek and impresses me every day that I use it. The storage can be supplemented with a bigger internal drive and the memory can be upgraded. It could attach to the back of a monitor that has the necessary screw ports (my monitors do not have these) for a even smaller foot print. The USB ports meet my needs and this is one of my best purchases of 2024.