MeLE PCG01 Fanless Mini PC Stick Desktop Windows 10 Home Intel BayTrail Z3735F 2GB DDR3 32GB eMMC HDMI WiFi Bluetooth

Pros: Quiet, runs Windows 10 fine, decent responsiveness.Cons: It's the only device on my network that doesn't run wireless over 5Ghz so I have to have a router capable of dual-band 2g/5g wireless support. Unfortunately my Surfboard doesn't run both simultaneously. ={

I bought a couple of these using Aliexpress a short while-back (I'm in the UK). Took a long time to deliver (errors with the DHL number or something - no input required from me other than patience) but they eventually arrived safely - and I've been playing with one for a while.I posted a question after purchase via Aliexpress to the company asking about power state after power interruption but they never replied and I can't find anything in the BIOS to allow me to set power state to always on. I did assume. Oh well. Assuming makes an ...On the Intel Compute Stick page it mentions Remote Desktop - I don't know if that means there's a pro version of Windows? On this one it's the home version. Seems to be genuine as far as I can tell, and no issue with residual language pack settings etc. (Chinese vs English) I've used Team Viewer 10 to remote control it over a USB -> ethernet connection though it's a bit patchy on screen updating when looking at metro apps (desktop mode fine).I'm beginning to wish I only bought one of these as a thin-client, and one intel compute stick for my other purposes. (UPDATE: Happy now - see UPDATE below). But ... on the positive side - and the reason I went for this ... there's no fan: completely silent. It gets a bit warm when working harder - uncomfortable to hold - but won't burn your skin off. Wifi seems ok (limited in bandwidth but fine for most streaming and apps like netflix work just fine) but with the little aerial no connectivity problems (though I usually use USB to ethernet). No problems with peripherals and effectively two USB sockets (one micro I used with an OTG connector) as well as a separate micro-usb sized socket just for power. It has no problems with USB hubs etc. I used on it.This report is just my subjective experience rather than robust testing etc.As a low-powered desktop it's usable for browsing etc. and office programmes, and I tried it with a Logitech c930e (built in h264 compression) camera and Jabra 360 microphone with Skype and it worked flawlessly. I even tried a trial copy of SparkoCam and could apply green-screen & other video effects to the full high def. video capture in real-time. It's not quite fast enough for me to consider changing over to it as a desktop full time ... it's just occasionally a little bit too sluggish and it wouldn't cope with the large number of browser tabs I tend to have open well ... but it's not far off. As a thin client it's great I tend to use thin client access to virtual machines running on my server).I can also run turnkey openvpn (debian linux based) virtual machine on it with vmware player with no issues.I'm looking at using a little solenoid actuator to turn it on after managed shutdown when my 5V UPS solution get's low in the event of long black-outs, or as a watchdog function should it crash (for one of my purposes where I want a low power windows based sentinel for automation at home to complement my Debian Raspberry Pi): if it had power state always on I would give it 5-stars. It's not a substitute for a larger computer or for a decent NUC or something ... it is what it is ... but what it is - to my mind - is amazing!UPDATE: actually - played with BIOS a bit more - a little bit randomly ... well ... I'm sure when I previously tested there was no power-on after power interruption or shutdown-then-power-interruption but now it does do what I want. I did enable USB charging in S5 state just to see what that does ... maybe that did it? Ahh - there was "battery" related setting I changed - that's more likely. The BIOS seems to have none of the settings that should be irrelevant for this device hidden. Or maybe when it didn't work before it was some glitch. There was definitely no explicitly labelled option - the closest being something like power after "G3" state - and that was set as S0 and greyed-out. But anyway - I've now risked corruption by removing power while booted-up, and also tested shutdown / remove power then power-restore ... and the device does boot. Cool. Changed from 4-stars to 5-stars. Very happy.