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This is more a question about the manufacturer, component/assembly quality control & brand. Indeed, heat dissipation does play a factor, although if one starts off with a poor quality product, the experience can only go down from there. Take your 5500U for example. The Lucienne Zen 2 5000 series (57

Products manufactured by CYX understand the MiniPC Union umbrella (Acemagic, Acemagician, Kamrui, NiPoGi, etc) have questionable build quality & customer service over the last couple years, noticeably once they switched from Cezanne/Barceló to the much cheaper Zen 2 Lucienne. Something that became e

Do not buy Acemagician / Acemagic. Beelink, while not perfect, is a much more consistently good brand

If it's not too late, IMHO return it. Beyond the malware debacle on three models nearly 2 years ago, CYX (Acemagic, Acemagician, Kamrui, NiPoGi, MiniPC Union, etc) manufacturing quality has become questionable at best, costly at worst. It does depend on the model, as some have been found to be more

Sorry to hear about your Acemagician experience, although if it's any consolation you're not alone. Original Acemagician leadership left the MiniPC Union/CYX manufacturing umbrella in early 2023, with the OG website soon merged with Acemagic & assets/IP managed by Kamrui. The branding quickly went d

I’m migrating my plex server from my main pc because I want to learn Linux and docker, and also because I don’t want to have a bunch of extra processes running on my regular workhorse. I’m trying to decide on a mini pc but I’m getting confused on requirements. The mini pc will run plex and home assi

Due to build quality & customer service, many CYX manufactured mPCs (Acemagic, Acemagician, Kamrui, NiPoGi, etc) have made poor long-term investments in the past year or so. Having said that, historically, I've been quite fond of the AM06 PRO platform with the exception of the 5500U/5700U versions.