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Beyond major OEMs, the majority of these Chi-NUC brands haven't been in the NUC/mPC manufacturering long enough to provide a long-term reputation. A couple of years ago, Acemagic, Beelink & Minisforum were the preferred brands. In 2025, AooStar, Beelink & GMKtec have become more popular. Beelink cur

This is more a question about the manufacturer, component/assembly quality control & brand. Indeed, heat dissipation does play a factor, although if one starts off with a poor quality product, the experience can only go down from there. Take your 5500U for example. The Lucienne Zen 2 5000 series (57

Here's the perspective of Chi-NUC brands from more than 4 decades of PC repair. Understand that these are PCs which do not have registration requirements for warranty or regional centers for repair. Their primarily in the category of consumer electronics one purchases off the shelf from a local reta

The downside of a raspberrpy pi is that sd cards dont last forever, especially when doing heavy reads and writes constantly (like an os does) they can die pretty frequently requireing changing. How cheap are we talking? I'm thinking if all you need to do is run some file server, transfer some files,

Do not buy Acemagician / Acemagic. Beelink, while not perfect, is a much more consistently good brand

Wobei ich von Acemagician fern bleiben würde, die wurden schon mit Malware geliefert siehe: https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/mini-pc-maker-ships-systems-with-factory-installed-spyware-acemagic-says-issue-was-contained-to-the-first-shipment

If it's not too late, IMHO return it. Beyond the malware debacle on three models nearly 2 years ago, CYX (Acemagic, Acemagician, Kamrui, NiPoGi, MiniPC Union, etc) manufacturing quality has become questionable at best, costly at worst. It does depend on the model, as some have been found to be more

As stated before, CYX manufactured mPCs (Acemagic, Acemagician, Kamrui, NiPoGi, etc) aren't necessarily known for build quality, durability & customer service in recent years. For the best results, one would look for HDMI 2.1 4K60Hz/12.56Gbit/s bandwidth support for a mPC. 5120x1440@60Hz 32:9 DQHD "

My general recommendation for everyone buying prebuilt computers from any brand is to reinstall the OS because it is free and easy to do. Alternatively, for the incredibly lazy, run a windows full scan or malwarebyte scan which are free to use. Otherwise, I have been testing the Acemagic F3A, F1A, a

1000% true. good call. and also, idk how many friggin times that exact listing has been front page amazon for me when i go to look for anything. Oh, and not just front page, I'll be looking for something totally unrelated, nothing to do w/ tech, and that listing w/ appear on the page as an ad. You c