MeLE Quieter4C Fanless Mini PC 12th Alder Lake N100 (up to 3.4GHz 4C/4T) 16GB LPDDR4x 512GB Storage Micro Desktop Computer, Support 4K Triple Display, Dual HDMI, All-in-One USB-C WiFi 5 BT5.1 Ethernet

First, a disclaimer: I would strongly suggest that the first thing you do with this (or pretty much any PC, to be honest) is use a bootable live OS USB drive (Ubuntu or similar) to completely reformat all of the drives and then reinstall Windows/Linux from scratch. There have been enough issues with various Mini-PC brands shipping with malware that taking the extra few minutes to install a fresh OS is well worth it.As for the Quieter 4C itself - I kinda love it. It's not a powerhouse PC or anything, but in my opinion It has 3 features that make it really neat for various uses.1) It happily runs off of 12V 2A USB-C Power Delivery. I've been able to run it from both a PD-compatible POE splitter and a power bank. A 20,000 mAh power bank should be able to run for 4-ish hours on full blast, and testing showed that 1080P video watching was closer to 15W power draw.2) USB-C Video out. This means that it can use a compatible portable monitor (albeit not with max brightness, in my experience) with a single cable for both power and video. Similarly, this works really well with AR Glasses, which it outputs plenty of power to run.3) It's tiny. Smaller than the power bank I used to power it (technically slightly longer, but about half the width). I'm hesitant to call it pocketable (not least because it gets pretty toasty), but it definitely would fit in your "adventuring bag" with a power bank.Potential use cases:Convert a portable monitor to an All-in-One PC, powered by a Power Over Ethernet Splitter (this is actually what I bought it for, and it works pretty well as a little Linux test box in that role). Only the Ethernet cable runs to the whole setup.Power Bank + Quieter4C + AR Glasses + Controller = fairly portable setup for Steam Streaming over WiFi (this is my favorite use for this mini-pc so far).Mount it to a camera rig. While I doubt it would hold up to real video editing, it seemed to run OBS just fine in testing so you could stream/record right from the camera setup itself.As for cons... yeah, it gets pretty warm. Also, the included VESA mount isn't great (it doesn't feel like it "mounts" so much as rests in place). Lastly, I did initially have some issues getting it to run off of a power bank out of the box (it would power off after about 3 minutes of use). Something I did between reinstalling the OSes and messing around in the BIOS appears to have addressed that last one, though I couldn't tell you what actually fixed it.

I was happy to discover that the Quieter 4C I received recently came with a 512GB NVMe drive, rather than the split 256GB eMMC + 256GB NVMe storage that people often complained about because eMMC storage is much slower than NVMe. When I checked the BIOS it appears that MeLE has upped the stock power limits because mine had 8W and 25W set for Power Limit 1 and Power Limit 2 respectively. This probably helps the device to run faster for heavier loads, though it likely increases the temperature.

Just for work... or non demandant games

I am using this mini PC for controlling my telescope for astrophotography, I just installed all the software for this purpose and it is working perfect, I will use it with N.I.N.A.,PHD2, IEXOS 100 2 mount, all the components are working perfectly. The cover fills a little hot but nothing to worried about, the one I purchased does not have an i internal fan.

I'm not certain if I got a bad unit / unit with pre-production BIOS, or what. My goal was to install LibreElec on it and use as a media-playback device. I ended up returning the unit. Here's what I found:Pros:- Case build quality is greatCons:- Power input is all sorts of whacked on this device; There are two USB-C inputs. One is a 12V only DC in (note: this is NOT a PD-compatible port). One is an "all-in-one" USB-C port (PD/usb in, DP-out). When connected *only* to the all-in-one port, the PD doesn't seem to supply the unit with enough amperage to run reliably (tested on a known-good cable/source). To use the DC-only input, you need to use the provided AC adapter OR find a cable that has a PD-select chip for 12V in it. Only then does it seem to be (mostly) stable (power-wise).- Video output... I'm not sure what to say about this. The USB-C video out seems 'fine', but for a media playback device the HDMI output is paramount. This is where the unit absolutely fails. I have several different N100-based mini PCs, and none of them have had issues like this with the HDMI output. Here's what I encountered: If you only want to use a single HDMI output, you have to use the 'correct' one, otherwise you'll get very inconsistent output (screen blanking on & off while booting, not being able to view BIOS, etc). If you DO use the correct HDMI output, things seem 'fine'. This all changes if you want to use both HDMI outputs simultaneously. I had nothing but issues with this. From outputs randomly dropping from one or the other, to power delivery issues (even with the supplied AC adapter). It seems whatever method used to control the HDMI outs on this unit is very specific to... whatever scenario they had in mind.- Secure boot - After giving up on linux running this thing properly, I went to install Win11 back on it. Reset the BIOS, and ran the installer, only to be presented with a 'this device is not compatible with Windows 11' generic error. I had to run through hoops to get Windows on there that involved some shady things, so I'm not sure what Mele did to image these things properly.Unfortunately this was my first Mele device, and it will be my last.

I purchased this fanless pc to replace my existing one (Lenovo m90n) which is mainly used for zoom with LogiCapture. the m90n uses a 8th gen 8145u and 4GB RAM. I saw enough of discussions online praising how well the N100 performs so I was expecting a performance upgrade.The n100 I purchased comes with 8GB/256GB, I added one 400GB SDXC card for external storage. I also installed all Windows update. When idles the cpu usage is in single digit and consume ~7W. As soon as I fired up the zoom, the CPU usage shoot to 100%, system became unresponsive and the bottom plate got quite hot. Note that the top "heatsink" is actually just plastic mesh so you should not expect great heat dissipation. For comparison, the m90n uses 8145u which is 2C4T, cpu usage is 80% when both zoom and logiCapture are running.Sure it is quiet but also does not come with much power at all. It is going back to Amazon.