MeLE PCG02 N100 Fanless Mini PC Stick 4GB LPDDR5 128GB eMMC Windows 11 Home | Support HDMI + USB-C 4K Dual Display, WiFi 5 BT5.1 GbE, Quiet, No Dust, Unlocked BIOS, Portable Size, Compatible with Linux

Got this as a quick to set up, inexpensive computer when my husband’s old machine died. He needed something for web browsing, You Tube and word processing. At the moment finances were a little tight. Very quick to set up and easy to use. So silent it’s scary. Appreciated the wired Ethernet port. Got right into our network with minimal effort and online real fast. This is a great little piece of tech!

I don't know if I'd be comfortable leaving this sticking directly out of a horizontal HDMI port (it's a bit on the large size for that without some sort of support), but the PCG02 does make for the most adorable little desktop PC, and at least the N100 variants are powerful enough to handle pretty much anything a casual home user would want to throw at it (i.e. no heavy gaming, but it should be able to handle web browsing without issue).I personally installed Batocera on it for a tiny little gaming machine that can handle up to at least N64 without too much issue (I didn't try anything more demanding than that).Pros:+ A dedicated 12v, 2A USB-C power input that negotiates PD properly, so you can easily power it off of an appropriate power bank or Power Over Ethernet splitter.+ A separate, fully-featured USB-C port that can be used for data, power, or video. The fact that this is a separate port from the power port means you can use a power bank and a pair of AR Glasses at the same time, and this PC is small enough that I would be willing to call this sort of setup pocketable. Alternately, you can use this with a monitor with USB-C video in (that provides passthrough PD power) for a single-cable setup.+ Multiple USB-A inputs so you can have both mouse and keyboard plugged in at once. It feels a little weird to call this out specifically, but after setting up some Raspberry Pi Zeroes, a small computer with multiple full-size USB ports shouldn't be taken for granted.+ Silent.+ Tiny. It's a bit bigger than, say, one of the old Compute Sticks, but it's still smaller than most laptop power bricks by a wide margin.+ Has some mounting holes. These are intended to be used with the included VESA mount, but since they're just standard M3 screw holes you can use them to mount to other things as well.Cons:- A bit pricey, especially at full price. I bought this at $140 with a coupon, but even then you can find similarly-specced mini-PCs for significantly less (though generally larger, louder, and without USB-C power input).- No built-in POE support. This is an exceptionally rare thing for mini-PCs to have, but it's easy to compare this to the Minisforum S100 (since they're both similarly-sized and specced N100 mini-PCs) and POE is the big selling point there.- Not a gaming PC. Probably not going to be a good choice for stuff like video rendering, either.- It gets toasty, since no fan means all the heat dissipates into the case. While I don't think it's likely to actually burn you unless you're abusing the poor thing pretty bad, it gets warm enough to be uncomfortable to touch for more than a couple seconds.- Power brick is 12v only. Don't plug it into anything else or it may fry whatever you connect it to.

Great tiny PC for my sec cam system need.

Keep loosing internet constantly and have to reset the computer to get it back. Also hardly enough ram to load a website. Tried to use companies help chat and all I get is error.

Okay, functions well but wasn't compatible with some bespoke astronomy related software that I needed it for that runs perfectly okay on all my other computers.