JGale Posted February 24 Posted February 24 (edited) https://store.mele.cn/products/mele-quieter-hd3q-fanless-mini-pc-n5105-ddr4-windows11-pro-wi-fi-6-bt-5-2-usb-3-2-3-vga-type-c-dp-vesa-mount MeLe HD3Q 16GB Main Memory, 512GB SSD expandable to 5TB AND you can insert a SATA HDD up to 5TB. Very Small Celeron Computer with many IO ports. Was $240 on Amazon, now I can't seem to find it. The Quieter 4C is faster with more features for near the same price but no internal HDD capability, but the USB 3.0 is 10GB/s vs. SATA 6GB/s. Looking to maybe make it a NAS or a ROON Server. Lots to learn yet. Another $100 on Amazon gets you a 2TB 17mm thick 2-1/2 in SATA HDD that slots ever so nicely. Edited February 24 by JGale 1 Quote
JGale Posted February 24 Author Posted February 24 (edited) Logitech has this cute little keyboard and mouse and BLUETOOTH USB transceiver for about $50 at Best Buy. Instantly identified by the MeLe. Add an HDMI cable into the TV and Viola! Look around the site. Many offerings of Very Small Devices. Edited February 24 by JGale 1 Quote
JGale Posted February 25 Author Posted February 25 In case anyone was wondering, Windows 11 sucks! 2 2 Quote
HamerCustomEr Posted February 25 Posted February 25 On 2/24/2025 at 10:29 AM, JGale said: Logitech has this cute little keyboard and mouse and BLUETOOTH USB transceiver for about $50 at Best Buy. Instantly identified by the MeLe. Add an HDMI cable into the TV and Viola! Is it that easy? Quote
Saul Goodman Posted February 26 Posted February 26 (edited) 14 hours ago, JGale said: In case anyone was wondering, Windows 11 sucks! I'm still running Win7 but it seems they are going to force me to upgrade. I have a Win 11 laptop that I open once a month to pay bills because some accounts want me to upgrade. PITA. Win 10 was worse than 11 IMFO. If I could I'd go back to Win 2000. That was the strongest and most reliable. Edited February 26 by Saul Goodman Quote
velorush Posted February 26 Posted February 26 I have about a dozen machines deployed in our network and find Win 11 (once the quirks are understood / mitigated) to be superior to Win 10. My favorite so far (I started with DOS) was likely 7, but I do like some of the actual improvements in 10 and 11. By far the most frustrating part has been the gymnastics required (Command Prompt, even - how... DOS!) to provision a new machine for use in a Domain environment. Their (MS') constantly increasing pressure to force everyone into this Microsoft ID paradigm requires constant modifications of procedure used for setup. Once you trick the new machine into believing you don't have Internet, provide the DOS command to open the additional "I don't have Internet" option,* then reboot with that option, it goes fairly smoothly. The procedure to trick the system seems a little different and more involved every time. *If anyone's interested, boot up the new PC (disconnected from the internet!), answer English, English, United States (or whatever three answers are correct for your environment) then simultaneously press CTRL and F10, which will bring up a command prompt. Enter at the prompt OOBE\BYPASSNRO, then Enter, and the machine will reboot, starting again with the language and region questions. After those are answered the next screen will have a new option "I don't have Internet." Click that and you can set up a local user (no Microsoft ID or other funny business). With the local user active and internet / LAN reconnected the domain setup can proceed (deleting the local user on completion to tidy up the machine). This worked two weeks ago. We'll see if it continues the next time I need to provision a new machine. Quote
guitarzandstuff Posted March 4 Posted March 4 Actually now you need to change to the oobe directory and run the bypassnro cmd. I’m sure next month it will be something different lol 1 Quote
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