With minipc mu01, you will have an additional HD player + office appliance

Slow enough to drive people crazy

The company's computer is really too slow. As a Pentium g3240 PC, it has been in service for nearly 8 years. With the continuous updating of the software, it now has to wait for dozens of seconds to open a word document, not to mention that it has to hang Skype and email all day while using word. It is under the pressure that this "age" should not have.

Looking at this huge chassis, may I ask whether it still has upgrade potential? 100 $ for a motherboard, 50 $ for a U, 80 $ for a fixed disk? Finally, I'd better turn to the mini pc series instead of "Reviving" it. After all, our needs are just for normal office work, editing documents and PPTs, playing videos, and helping students register for exams online. Today's mini pc can perfectly meet my needs, and the volume is small enough to make room for the bottom of the table.

As a person who does what he says, I opened Amazon with 400 dollars applied from the finance department. It seems that there are not many optional products. I chose egsmtpc, which uses 8-generation i5-8265u, 16g memory and 512g storage space. The memory and storage are quite enough, and the win11 system is pre-installed.

Volume 128 * 128 * 38mm, but still powerful

MU01mini pc provides a rich range of items. In addition to the mini pc, power adapter, power cord and instructions, it also includes VESA mount.

The size of the mini pc is indeed small enough, and the overall appearance is square. It's only about the size of a palm. It's not impossible to carry it with you.

I didn't choose the pure white color, mainly considering that black is more resistant to dirt. The whole body is mainly made of metal, and the surface is also made of metal wire drawing technology, making it more difficult to leave fingerprints.

Although the size of mu01 is not large, the interface will never shrink. The front part includes USB 3.0 interface, 3.5mm frequency earphone / microphone two in one hole, USB 2.0 and power switch and hard disk indicator, which can meet the daily use of most users.

In addition to the conventional VGA interface and HDMI, the back of the pc also has two usb-3.0 sockets, type-C port, DP video input port and power socket. Among them, the full-function usb-c port can support data transmission. In addition to the DP and HDMI mentioned above, it can support 4K 60Hz picture output of two displays.

It is not difficult to disassemble the pc. First, unscrew the four screws on the top, and then push it to the right to open the bottom cover smoothly.

The heat dissipation of the mini pc is actually active + passive. When I saw the heat sink, I thought it was completely passive. Until it was fully loaded, I found that there was still a fan sound. But fortunately, the sound is not loud and belongs to the quieter ones. The main heat source of MU01 is located at the rear air outlet of the fuselage, and the maximum normal office temperature is 57.4 ℃; The air inlets on both sides are about 35 ℃ and the top cover is 41 ℃. The heat dissipation effect brought by the aluminum alloy is still good. The main reason is that the noise is very small and can be almost ignored.

The CPU of mu01 is Intel i5-8265U, the number of cores: four cores, the number of threads: eight threads, the level 3 cache: 6MB, the bus specification: OPI 4gt / s, and the thermal design power consumption (TDP): 15W

i5-8265u is equivalent to Intel Core i5-8250U processor of desktop computer. In the cinebench R15 test, the multi-core performance of the i5-8265U perfectly exceeded that of the previous generation of i5-8250U. It can be seen that the performance of the new whiskey Lake processor has been greatly improved. Not only has the performance of the new whiskey Lake architecture i5-8265u been greatly improved, but also Intel has integrated Gigabit WiFi for the first time, which has increased the connection speed by 12 times. It is certainly enough for daily office.

Office and learning experience

Naturally, there is no problem with the office experience. Plug and play. As long as there is a monitor and a pair of USB interface keys and mice, you can start learning and working at any time and place, and there is no pressure to open multiple documents or web pages at the same time.

On the whole, it is a good choice to use MU01 for office or as an online class PC for children. In addition, it can easily control 4K film source, and it is also very good for building a simple video and audio playback platform. If you want to play large-scale 3A games, I suggest you give up this idea for the time being and try again after the subsequent version is updated. As for light games, MU01 is completely competent.

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