MeLE PCG02 J4125 Slim Fanless Mini PC Stick 8GB LPDDR4 256GB Mini Computer Stick HDMI 4K 2.4/5GHz Wi-Fi BT4.2 Gigabit Ethernet Micro PC on Industrial IoT, Digital Signage, MES, NAS, Astrophotography

I occasionally need a Windows machine to run some windows only software, and rather than running a virtual machine, I thought I'd break down and buy an actual Windows machine.I wasn't expecting this to be a super powerful game machine or server and it isn't. It's just a nice little desktop Windows machine. Small, portable, with reasonable performance and enough memory and sold state disk to make it useful. As an example, this PC works well with Zoom, but don't expect anything more than the basic background, or filters. It just lacks the processing power for the fancier effects.This model shipped with Windows 10 Pro, and per the manufactures recommendation, I allowed it to self-update to Windows 11 Pro. All of the questions I had and the information I needed were addressed on the manufactures website.I'm happy with this purchase, it is just what I wanted.

Worked great

I bought this in conjunction with a NAS for streaming content across my home network, this works like a charm! I would buy again should the need ever arise.

Plugged it in and then spent 3 hours downloading windows updates that you can't stop. Go microsoft. I found that the device wants to use the TV's native 4k resolution which "does" work but is not ideal. I finally switched the resolution down to 1080p which was much more stable. If you are streaming tv shows off websites and such and they aren't 4k this won't matter to you. But if you do want 4k then I would suggest mining a small desk based media pc for your tv that has a heftier onboard GPU to do the 4k video and has a bit more ram/cpu to move around with. Windows 11 is a massively poor choice for such a small device and with it being the bloatware ridden version that it is its too bad it can't come with Enterprise LTSC because its stripped bare except for a browser which would almost undoubtedly work and run better. The best feature is the sound running through my tv which BT pairs with my sound bar so no extra cables or BT pairing was needed. This isn't for games, don't run any type of visual screen saver, and stick to just stream mid resolution movies or content. Don't attempt 8k, and uninstall every possible app from windows that it doesn't need to run video and you'll be better off. Also I miss ordered and got the 4GB model instead of the 8GB or the new one with bluetooth 5. People that say they run editing software, graphics, games are full of it. It doesn't, it will manage to run web content and barely at that, Although I suppose that means yes it will run office 365 since it is all web based so for a half terrible work pc I do suppose it would work for that.

Easy to install, and works faster than my laptop.

Great for Astro photography. Able to remote in and control the computer, mount and camera from the comfort of the house. Looking forward to using it this summer in the field.

The size and the practice of thw computer i can check my emails and everything in my tv, it awesome

I must have gotten a dud or something after reading other's great reviews. My old chromebook i bought used for $12 is faster and more useful than this thing even not being windows. At least it can do anything browser related without problems.Before even turning it on I was very disappointed that it comes with a huge block of an AC power adapter that it apparently requires. This is no where in its description. It says it is powered by USB and nothing more. That alone makes this purchase null for me as the whole point was running from USB outlets.Since I had to open it in order to find this out, I figured I might as well see if the rest of it is okay. It took me over an hour to get my keyboard and mouse to pair with it and the mouse would not scroll, so that was annoying and will make my work almost impossible to do that i bought it for. Also the mouse is crazy slow even on the fastest speed. I have to pick the mouse up and move it over 2-3 times to get across the screen.After that i went to the updates. Nothing out of the ordinary there aside from nearly two hours of updates from a brand new Windows 11 computer. That seems a bit much considering my home internet is very fast.By this point the stick was so hot i could barely touch it without it burning my fingertips.After all updates done and restarting, etc. I was like, okay, lets do some basic things to see how it functions. Holy crap was it slow. Just clicking on the start menu took anywhere from 10-20 seconds to come up after clicking. 30-40 seconds to load just the basic google search page. Every move you make is in slow motion with lots of waiting.I managed to finally get logged in to HBO Max to see how streaming a video was. (at this point i didn't have high hopes) Yea, it just can't do it.I was really hoping this would at least be on par with a super cheap basic laptop without the bulk since i already have the monitors and whatnot. Sadly it can't even run itself let alone putting anything else on it. I'm guessing that's why they slide in the stuff about not being able to return it because they know it's crap.In summary, just get a cheap used laptop, it will be better.