Air12

For all intents & purposes in comparing Intel QSV, until Phoenix/RDNA3 AMD transcoding for most purposes were non-existent. Not a matter of being worse, simply absent by contemporary standards. While any Alder Lake-N/Twin Lake mPC should suffice, @ $200 USD I've personally become quite fond of the G

Recently have a local IT group choose the Geekom Air12 over a number of Chi-NUC competitors for a number of reasons, the primary being build quality. Other advantages included Adata CBDAD6S480016G-B commercial grade 16GB DDR5 SODIMM Gen3x4 supported Lexar LNM620X512G-RNNNU NM620 512GB retail NVMe Re

First, understand that Alder Lake-N/Twin Lake mPCs are generally "a race to the bottom", where cost-cutting is the goal & expectations for failure can be relatively on. "You get what you pay for..." Alternately, & to some extent "ironically", the Geekom Mini Air12 appears to be in a class of its own

The only issues some life helped have had with the MeLE Mini PC Quieter 4C thermal throttling under load, with a few complaining about DDR4 and/or 8GB power and performance on model so equipped. The more recent "go-to" has been the Geekom Air12 N150 16GB, finding the DDR5 RAM performance substantial

It's a good question, and unfortunately it's the only shortcoming. Geekom's "cheated here" to meet an industrial PC standard. Instead of offering an additional M.2 for SATA or Gen3x1, they've included an SD slot 😯 Removable storage is still a requirement in some PC IT sectors, with 2TB A2/V30 equiva

Helping someone else, went through this earlier in the year. It's not uncommon that some of these entry level Alder Lake-N/Twin Lake mPCs develop USB/HDD problems (I'm looking @ you NucBox G5), although the V1 somewhat stood out. On the bench, the front USB 3.2 ports failed to provide static data th

Have a local business that was in a similar position, this week they're deploying dozens of Geekom Air12 DDR5s. It was there budget choice out of more than 20 candidates, primarily for serviceable DDR5 & full Gen3x4 NVMe. They made their choice before the GMKtec NucBox G10 was released, which is giv

After few weeks of research, unsuccessfully trying to boot the minipc with the above module (CT32G48C40S5.M16D1) and not giving up on this matter, it is in fact possible to upgrade Geekom Mini Air 12 to use 32GBs of RAM despite a dual-rank configuration. Based on u/Stepyon research, and sharing his

Don't know about ONN devices (check app store) but I use a firetv cube and sticks as well as a chromebook, android mobiles and tablet as well as via a web browser to access Channels DVR and it works fine on them. The Channels DVR server software doesn't take much to run it. From a NAS to old PC's wi

For the best performance, the lowly N150 processor can offer, it should be interfaced with DDR5 memory and PCIe x4 SSD. There is a "Trigkey Key mini" N150 mini-PC (ASIN: B0DSFV33GF). On paper, it supports DDR5 SODIMM memory and dual M.2 2280 SSDs (PCIe 3.0x4/SATA & PCIe 3.0x1). A candidate with DDR5