News Would you buy this? $44 PC promises "powerful performance" and "striking visuals

[Admin]

The Wo-We mini PC is amazingly cheap, but there are some trade-offs.

Would you buy this? $44 PC promises "powerful performance" and "striking visuals : Read more

 

[ezst036]

Having Linux on it, at least it will be fast in common usage.

That CPU is quad core I think.

 

[salgado18]

You could emulate Atari games on it, altough some would have a bit of stuttering.

Doom, on the other hand, would run flawlessly on that WiFi processor.

 

[Marlin1975]

Having Linux on it, at least it will be fast in common usage.

That CPU is quad core I think.

No its a older dual core Gemini Lake Refresh chip from 2019. Max 2.8Ghz.
Pretty slow when for a little more you can get a N95/97/100/150 system

 

[retro77]

What country produced it and how compromised is it?

 

[USAFRet]

Any person who might be satisfied with the performance, and the Linux OS....almost certainly has enough spare parts around to build a whole (better?) system.

I know I do.

 

[mikiem]

FWIW I picked up a similar Beebox [ asrock.com/nettop/Intel/Beebox%20Series/?cat=Download&os=Win1064 ] many years ago to use as a Blu-ray player connected to the TV. Nowadays it's all streaming, and the Beebox sits on my desk as a spare connected to a TV on my desk that's otherwise used with a Roku when the PC isn't churning away doing whatever. And it does OK running Win11, which was actually a performance boost compared to Win10. Granted the Beebox has 4 cores, with a real [if Very old] SSD along with 8GB RAM, and it can be almost painfully slow sometimes, but it takes up a little more room than a cup of coffee and it works.

 

[atarione]

Amusingly I can't buy it even if I wanted to? As Amazon says it can't be shipped to my address (CA) due to local laws or amazon policies?? Happily (I guess) I don't want this (possibly malware infested?) Chinese potato pc anyways...

 

[RedBear87]

Granted the Beebox has 4 cores, with a real [if Very old] SSD along with 8GB RAM, and it can be almost painfully slow sometimes,

People underestimate sometimes how those slow CPUs can be the real bottleneck in a system, no matter the amount of RAM and the kind of storage you attach....

 

[Scottib]

Have had two of these for a couple years now. Work great running Xubuntu minimal and pihole software. Just keep on ticking 24/7.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

I'd buy one for a basic server, like a pihole.

If they offered a model with a slightly better CPU like an N100 I'd be more interested to get one of these for basic use or for Grandma etc. I've dealt with CPUs like this in the past and they really struggle even with basic video playback, almost too weak for basic usage