PELADN WO4 Mini-PC: A Great Little Desktop or Server

Glad it's going to serve a good cause 🎉

Food for thought, if you were able to get into windows 11 with only doing a local account out of the box, they have a modified version of windows 11 running, which fine what ever, but there had been a string of mini PC coming with a version of Windows 11 that had malware/virus already loaded on it. TLDR, load a fresh version of windows regardless what came on it.

fn + delete doesnt work as delete to the bios? i use that combination when im going into a supermicro bios from the bmc iirc

Looks like the price has jumped up considerably since your recording. The price for the 5700u version is now $339 with the 512gb NVME. I wish they sold this as a barebones so I could add my own RAM and storage. Or else have options from the amazon store to max it out on RAM. I haven't done the research yet but wonder if it'd support 2x32gb sodimms.

Great video!

It's nice that the Type-C port can be used for a monitor output, but it would be worth to test if it can actually be used for a third monitor with the others connected to HDMI and DP at the same time. It's probably not supposed to, but it's worth testing. (UPD. The Amazon page says it does support three monitors, but still). Also would be nice to know if it's possible to unlock or increase the power cap in the BIOS or with some program and then test it for temperatures and noise. Testing the default SSD would be great too, so the folks could know what they're in for. In particular its temperature when the system is under thermal load and the speeds of a big long write operation of dozens of GB. Cheap noname SSDs tend to drop under 10MB/s, i'm curious if it's the case and what speed it drops to. But the manufacturer can change the SSD supplier at any moment so it might not be representative in the future, but the temperatures under load would be great regardless. And another small thing. I understand you intended to review it for server purposes and didn't check the sound, but some folks might use it as a tabletop computer with a 3.5 mm headset of sorts. Would be nice to know if it hums or buzzes in any way in general or when using some USB or network ports. These motherboards can be poorly manufactured and not isolated or grounded properly.

Hey there! I haven't watched your videos in a while. I noticed you've gained some weight. I hope everything is okay with your health. Your videos are still great and always so helpful!

Thanks for highlighting this nice gadget!

apalrd for world domination. :D

Cool! Any idea on the power consumption?

Please pursue world domination with your fleet of N100 mini PCs. I won't mind. :-D

someday all these mini pc will have dual 10g and dual usb5, its gonna be a while but it will happen; for the clustering that you are going to do - good content, do it you can ramp up incrementally

Is it noisy? Those laptops fans high pitch sound drives me crazy

What's that phone holder o.O looks nice

How do you use a MacBook as screen and keyboard for the desktop PC?

$350~ for the 5700U version...daggum Interesting gadget...how good is the BIOS...some of these mini-pc's are plagued with BIOS issues... my KODLIX won't post or boot anymore :(

I use cases for my saxophone.

I'm looking for a ~$200 platform (new, not used) that pfSense could reasonably run on. If this were available in a non-Windows version for $200 would it suffice? I realize realtek is not the best for routing, but perhaps if the WiFi and each NIC have dedicated PCI lanes then, maybe? I also wonder what the throughput would be and the transfer speeds it can sustain between WiFi and either ethernet ports, and between the ethernet ports. For example, what total throughput can be achieved at the 2.5G port when routing between it and both the WiFi and 1G port, or is there some internal bottleneck.

Hmm... Trusting Chinese bios and network drivers... If there was such a thing as effective malware scanning for this code...

Wow that's an ugly box