Geekom Mini Air12 Review - The $229 Mini PC With 16GB RAM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2024
- Geekom Mini Air12 Review and unboxing. Intel N100 powered Windows 11 Pro Mini PC with 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD.
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Nice review! No music in the background, how refreshing. Thanks for that!
You're welcome! I don't put music in the the background, never have and never will.
Thanks again, Chris. Looks like a decent bit of kit and great build quality for a very good price. It'll probably be enough for the basics, as you rightly point out.
Your channel is like a sip of fresh air in the tech review world. Thank you, Chris!
Thanks.
Thanks for this informative review.
Glad it was helpful!
Hello Chris, Thank you very much!
You are welcome!
Hi Chris, what's your thoughts on the Xiaomi 14 ultra?
Maybe silly question, but I'm genuinely interested can it run some really older games, like GTA San Andreas? Or Gta IV at low settings?
Does Windows 11 come ready to install/setup at system start?
Is there any powerbank that could charge Oneplus Nord 3 with relatively high power?
The N100 though. The Beelink Ser5 5500U 16gb/500gb can be bought for $280 (lowest in my region).
I just have one question about this pc. I currently own one and the green status light on the front is so annoying and bright, other than covering it up is there a way that you can turn this off or change the brightness of it?
What about noise under full load?
I'm using Melee Quieter 4c with N100 16GB RAM, I use Velcro to attach to under my desk, connected to two screens, changed L1 to 12W and L2 to 24W and works perfectly fine with Linux Mint, no lag nothing, perfect. Temp are around 50 when listen music, watching video, web-browsing and 77C temp at Max CPU/GPU Use and that very good. With Windows is a little bit different, it's better to do a clean installation of the OS. Download zip package drivers from official site, unzip and at system settings show all missing drivers location of that folder and windows will recognize and install missing drivers.
Sounds like great set up and I like it's out of the way completely under the desk. Yes Linux runs better on the lower end hardware.
Hey Chris,
Would you recommend the chuwi herobook pro today for generic use and maybe even some android emulation?
Or is there something better in that price range of 200€ today?
It's very low end and long term Chuwi batteries seems to fail and expand after a 3 years or some.
@@Techtablets good to know.
What would you rather recommend in that price category?
Really hard to say I haven't reviewed enough low-end laptops recently to recommend one.
@@Techtablets ok no problem thanks for answering
Does it have tpm?
It's strange to see various configuration for pci-e 3.0 lanes to m.2 ssd slot for the different n100 minipc models. This mini air has full 4 lanes, while I bought gmktec g3 which has 2 lanes (but it does have an extra sata m.2 slot). And some models have just only 1. So buyers need to be careful with that.
Thanks for sharing
I'm looking to get this for my wife whom only watches videos, movies and whatnot. No gaming. One question I have, does it come pre-loaded with Windows 11 Pro? If not how do you install it? I'm old school and used to putting a disk in the drive to install (this doesn't have one).
It does with Windows 11 pre loaded onto it.
Not too bad. Some may bemoan the lack of a second internal storage option but for me that is mitigated by the 10Gb USB ports, which can make for use of external NVME drives that can still have decent performance.
It is good that they used the DDR5 RAM to squeeze all that is possible out of the single channel RAM. It would be interesting to see if it really can support 32Gb, especially with Intel specifying 16Gb as the maximum supported.
The N100 certainly has become quite the deal, swaying some from ARM based SBC's. with it's run any OS out of the box with no fuss X86 platform.
The competition is fierce though and $250 is likely to put some off when they see what else can be had for much less. The Beelink EQ12 is generally seen as one of the better specced models, which can often be had for closer to $200.
The Beelink EQ12 has the problem of having only 1 lane of pci-e 3.0 to internal nvme storage. The crippled bandwidth makes serial reads and writes not much faster than sata speeds
22H2. Outdated version.
6:50 How much CPU/GPU usage? and you could try to play youtube or other video platforms online and compare HW usage on same video. How much spyware is taxing to your mini PC and collection of people's data.
Just the typical built in Windows spy ware no extra from them
I didn't mean "extra" spyware besides OS's spyware. I was talking about e.g youtube's spyware + using partial prevetions(adblockers/trackers) how much it consumes(CPU & GPU) to play simple video compare to playing same video directly in media player e.g. VLC@@Techtablets
They send it with one stick of ram. Can it hold a second one?
Thanks if you see this and can answer this question.
Just a single stick.
Do I understand correctly that it's literally impossible to get this to run in dual channel? And does the usb c support power in (single cable operation)?
Impossible with only one Sodimm slot. As for the sable it doesn't no this is an entry level machine so none of the more top end features like full spec USB C with PD support.
The CPU doesn't support dual channel memory, but it's not really a problem in practice. Not sure about this specific mini PC but some certainly do support USB-PD, even my N5100 works with a single USB-C cable.
Lots of people are confused, not caught up with the newer tech. For DDR5, the mcc is located on the RAM chip itself. Each DDR5 stick of ram runs two channels. If the CPU is only capable of controlling single channel RAM, that would be a limitation that only applies to systems that use DDR4 RAM. As I understand it, this particular model uses DDR5. Therefore, it would be impossible to operate it in single channel RAM mode.
Is there any chance of hybrid core powered latest Intel cpu mini pc .
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Like the Core 7 Ultra 155H you mean? I'm waiting for those to arrive and I will cover them.
Shocking at how low wattage it is
I find the chuwi larkbox x perform better than this and only priced around $160 discount or $189 full price. Gaming side sucks for CSGO 2 but surprisingly stable when playing GTA 5. I would rather play valorant and dota 2 than the more unoptimized CSGO.
As far as I know, the N100 only supports 16GB RAm
MAx yes but it could run 8GB stick for example. Thanks for watching!
up to 64 Gb actually
@@MisterB4el Intels specs say 16GB but I found several forums where people report 32GB Dimms are working .
@@der_bruehl I saw some people on Reddit with 48 Gb reported, and logically there are 2 lines from CPU to RAM, so up to 32 Gb per each. And hello to Intel with their marketing first strategy even on "official specs".
@@MisterB4el Liek the only Apollo and Gemini lake then Max RAM spec stated was infact incorrect we could run double the RAM.
A bit expensive for n100
$229? I thought that was only for the spec with 16GB.
@@Techtablets well the gmktec g3 16gb/512gb model is 200$ on their site, but there are tradeoffs for that price. So the price for mini air12 seems decent I think.
Interesting that several posts of people showing cheaper alternatives then Geekom ( with similar specs ), are all removed. Translation: Its a sponsored advertisement and can not have posters show how expensive as hell it is. Shame on you TechTablets
I've removed no such posts, it must be links that YT is blocking not me.
So just checking no such posts are held not that I can see so defiantly TH-cam. You can tell me cheaper alternatives and post them here no issues no need to jump to conclusions that I'm banning people posting cheaper models lol why the hell would I care about that? SOme links to banggood or aliexpress are blocked however as people where spamming affilate links to make money off my videos.
DDR5 is two channels on each single stick of RAM. In other words, if the PC had two sticks of DDR5 RAM, that would be quad channel RAM. You criticize this computer having only single channel RAM. But that's not correct. If it uses DDR5, then it is at least dual channel.
You are incorrect It's single channel. One stick of ddr5 is not dual channel and 2 sticks quad. Where did you get such false info or you're trolling 🤣
Unlike previous DIMMs, DDR5 has two subchannels, each with its own CA (Command/Address) bus.
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Performance wise, terrible even for N100.
It is the bottom end for mini pc chipsets and cheap so expected it wasn't going to have crazy good performance.
It depends what are you comparing against. n100 is like 40-50% faster than raspberry pi 5, In fact its performance is comparable to 6th or 7th gen i5. Better IO capabilities and better software support than pi.
Yes it feels like an old Core i5.
What? No, the 1132/3000 score in GB puts it into the top among N100 mini PCs, check the GB browser. I think Chris undersells it somewhat, it's not fast by any means but it's perfectly fine even for like Photoshopping your vacation photos or editing 1080p videos and stuff like that. The GPU is the same as the previous gen so not an improvement there, but it's enough to emulate a lot of games.
Sure good for light stuff, I just don't want people to think they can play top end games with it or edit 4k video.
all shite unless it has a dedicated Graphics card.
Yes well not for gaming this spec 😅
Even if it did, you’d complain about the price and how desktop gpus are so much of a better value! 🤡
Of course types like him always find something to complain about. $229 and expects a dedicated GPU. Next thing he would expect RTX 4090 performance for under $500 @@RomvnlyPlays
for media, office and home labbing this thing is a beast.
It's all good for that type of light use.