What can a palm-sized mini console do? I tested these: gaming, video editing, and office!
The computer is very important when you need it, and when you don't need it, you can configure it in any way.
Like my recent work and daily needs, a small computer that can be put on the desktop casually, the noise is not too loud, and the performance can meet the daily office, chasing dramas and editing videos, it is enough, and it would be better if it could still have some appearance. Of course, I still choose a small and portable laptop for daily travel, which is nothing to say.
Some students may have to refute again: In the end, you want to recommend a mini computer? This thing is convenient, but there are three questions:
1. Is it sexually possible?
2. Will its interface be compressed very much?
3. Isn't its heat dissipation and noise not good?
In order to save everyone's time,I'll give you a brief summary here(If you're really not interested in reading it):I personally think its overall performance is sufficient,At least for my personal needs;To my surprise,Its interface is much richer than expected,I don't know about other products and brands for the time being,But it's not bad;In terms of heat dissipation, I personally think it's okay,But if it's editing or playing terminal games,It's true that the fan will run at a greater speed,Resulting in a significant increase in its operating noise,But overall,It's a daily mute、There is a state of obvious sound when it is operating at the extreme.、I personally think it's acceptable。
It's a SER5 MAX 5800H mini PC from Zero, and this is the color of Millennium Gray, which is my favorite color. The definition of Mini means that it is indeed small enough, and the bare metal weight of the whole machine is 0.51kg, just such a small thing, but it is a computer product that can be comparable to a desktop to some extent, and it is really unimaginable in the past.
I put it on any desktop is very harmonious,I can't see the inherent "stupid and stupid" image of people in the past, it can even be smaller than a Bluetooth speaker, can you imagine?
From the perspective of shape, the whole computer has a square head and a square brain, which is even smaller than a 4A book. The body is designed with a plastic body, but the bottom case and side grilles are made of metal, and the top is covered with breathable and waterproof cloth, but I recommend that you don't really think it's waterproof.
Compared with traditional desktops, this mini computer has the same layout ideas in terms of buttons and interfaces, with power buttons, 3.5mm audio interface, Type-C port and dual USB 3.2 data ports and an RTC Key interface on the front, while the rear part is arranged with a Gigabit LAN port, a USB 2.0 and a USB 3.2 interface and a DP 1.4 interface and an HDMI interface, next to the power adapter interface.
Press the power to turn it on,The boot screen of the zero brand appeared,I started with the 16GB+1TB version with the system,It's enough for daily use,Play "Genshin Impact", "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" type of games, or cut the video is completely enough. Of course, if I personally recommend it, I recommend you to choose the barebones version - add your own SSD and memory, after all, the price of these two things is quite fragrant now, and it is more secure than the manufacturer's own ones.
Back to the product itself, the processor of my machine is AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, which can support up to 64GB of D4 3200MHz dual-channel memory and 2TB of M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0X4 slot SSD solid-state storage, this processor can increase TDP to 54W power consumption, which is quite good for performance release.
Let's take a look at its Master Lu running score first,The CPU score is very high,Almost half of the total score of the running score,After all, it's a set display,This aspect pulls down the overall score,Considering that its positioning is like this,I don't think there's any problem,It's acceptable--After all, you can only choose between a smaller size and a stronger independent display。
We can also take a look at the benchmark results of 3DMark, and the SER5 MAX5800H scored 1568 in the graphics card section, which is not much different from the previous generation.
Because the memory and hard disk are optional, I personally don't do much testing in this area, it depends on how you choose - such as buying it yourself, or directly choosing the brand that comes with it, the results of the two choices are different.
What can such a mini computer do in the end?
For example, it can be used to edit videos, as I mentioned at the beginning, although the work of editing videos is a high-intensity work for this mini computer, but in fact, it can be done easily and the import and export data is smooth enough.
In the part of playing the game experience, I tried the "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", "Genshin Impact" and "Horizon" racing games that I often play, and I didn't deliberately observe and pay attention to all aspects of the data in the game, but there was no big problem with the overall fluency, and I didn't try more game tests. Therefore, the more specific test data will not be listed here, which will mislead everyone.
In addition to the smoothness of operation, I believe that many students will be very concerned about the noise and heat dissipation performance of this mini computer in the operation of these large applications? The sound of operation, if it is a very quiet use environment, it will be more obvious, if there is an ambient sound when the door is open, it is actually fine; it feels like there is no big problem in terms of heat dissipation, after all, the fan runs faster to dissipate heat as soon as possible, and it can cope with it.
And in the daily office environment,The whole machine is basically a state of "silent" work,On its body,In addition to the indicator light,You can't even feel any sound of operation,Compared with the traditional stupid and stupid desktop computer,I personally think that the performance of the mini small computer in lightweight work is amazing。
SER5 MAX is more mature than other products I used earlier, and the TPD has also come to 54W, so the overall performance of the CPU is very good. It's suitable for most people in the office because it's quiet enough and smooth enough, and it's also suitable for design work, so it's not a big problem. Even if you use it to kill time in your spare time, it still guarantees basic smoothness.
Write at the back:
Don't look at the small computer with a square head and a square brain, in fact, the DIY space is also left, as long as you have strong hands-on ability and are willing to toss, you can also toss a lot of new ways to play. In the past many years, I have always thought that desktop + notebook is enough, there is no space left for other categories in the middle, but the mini small computer has given me a new imagination space, it is actually just opening up a new track, to meet the needs of most people 90%, after all, most people's 90% of the needs are basically all the needs, plus now all kinds of equipment are miniaturized and intelligent, many things do not need "excess" of ability, this is the mainstream, but also the trend. If you think this kind of it suits you, you might as well consider it~