ACEPC AK2 Desktop Mini PC, 6GB DDR3 120GB SSD Windows 10 Pro Mini Computer, 4K Dual Output,Ideal for Daily Office HTPC Work from Home

This is for the ACEPC AK2 6Gb/64Gb Mini PC. I bought this after trying out a PC Stick that had terrible web performance. I am more than pleased at the web performance this device has. While I would not try to play the latest PC games on this, I have found it to be a very capable machine. This box’s size is a little big for my need, but so far exceeds my expectations. It comes with Windows 10 Home which supports touchscreens natively, is a breeze to set up, and has room for a 2.5in HDD/SDD. I put a 120Gb SSD in it I had sitting around and had no issues. It also comes with a metal mount to attach the mini pc to the back of a monitor that has the VESA mount holes in the back which is a great thing and I plan on using.I bought it to use with a 22" touchscreen monitor in effort to turn it all into a large tablet type device. After trying an Android mini pc/TV box I found out that they don't support touchscreen natively meaning you have to either find a driver for it (impossible) or, most likely, program it yourself using Linux. I am not a programmer, nor am I familiar enough with Linux to do this, and could not find a driver for my touchscreen and device. I did find many forums that tell you all the info you might need to do this, but like I said I don’t have the needed skills. That TV box now works with one of my TVs turning it into a 70" tablet/streaming system using a Bluetooth keyboard/ touchpad.I found an Android emulator that lets you use Android on Windows for free. I got it to try out on the mini pc to see if I could download apps from Google Store and play games and such with the touchscreen and it works perfectly with no issues. If you use any Android emulator I suggest looking at the tutorials on how to stop it from using your personal info and to stop it from downloading adware.The instructions for the mini pc tell you to clone the Windows OS onto a HDD/SDD for better performance, but don't tell you how to do it. Searching the internet I found a web site for “MiniTool Partition Wizard” that had a link for a free version of the tool and followed a tutorial, also on their web site, on how to do the cloning. The tutorial is maybe for a different version of the tool? I say this because it talks about doing a couple of things that I did not see an option for, but worked just fine nonetheless by just skipping those items.Warning! Unless you know what you are doing don't do anything that the tool and tutorial don't say to do! You can really mess things up using this tool. Just follow the steps of the tutorial and you should be fine. That's what I did and all was good.When you are done and before you try to use the new Windows drive you have to go into the mini pc BIOS and tell it to use the new drive as the first boot choice. Again, if you don't know what you are doing this can mess things up so READ everything and make sure you have things right before you hit the “Enter” key!Start with the ACEPC mini pc turned off and make sure you have a USB keyboard hooked up to be able to enter the mini pc BIOS. To enter the BIOS hold down the Escape key while turning on the mini pc. You can let go of the escape key once the BIOS screen appears. If you see the ACEPC logo and the little white dots going into a circle then you did it wrong and windows is starting. Just restart and do it again. You must be holding the escape key down BEFORE the ACEPC logo is displayed.Once in the BIOS use the arrow left and right keys to move the top selection bar to the “Boot” tab. Once there use the arrow up and down keys to highlight the 1st boot device selection and hit the “Enter” key. Then using the arrow keys highlight the drive you want to use and hit “Enter” once again. Now move the selection bar back to the top and over to the right to the “Save & Exit” tab at the top of the screen. Once there move the selection to the “Save & Exit” option and hit “Enter”. You should get a box asking if you want to save and exit, select yes and you are done. The mini pc should restart and load Windows off of your new drive at that time.To verify this you can go to “This PC” in Windows 10 and see that the Windows drive (C) has the right size to match your SSD/HDD that you installed. If it does not then you may not have selected the correct boot drive in the BIOS and need to do that part again. My SSD had a capacity of 111Gb after it was formatted from 120Gb before formatting. Now with it as the newly cloned “Windows” disk it shows a capacity of 109Gb with 90.5Gb free. This is because of the different partitions and such that must be made to make it the “Windows” drive and is normal.

I was looking for an inexpensive mini-PC that I could use for a mini-entertainment hub and be carried with me when I travel. I settled on the ACEPC A2 Mini PC as it has a Quad Core CPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of Flash Memory, all the ports that I need, and comes with a genuine copy of Windows 10 (Home Edition). And at the time of this review this Min PC cost under $200.Set-up was easy, I just plugged in the power adapter and hooked it up to my 4K monitor. I also added a USB dongle to power my wireless keyboard and mouse. The computer booted quickly and recognized the mouse and keyboard instantly. This Mini PC also had no problem handling full resolution on my 4K monitor.After that I just needed to follow the onscreen instructions for setting up the computer and Windows 10 Home Edition. I went ahead and downloaded the latest updates and cycled the computer off and on several times during the process until all updates were complete.After that it was smooth sailing. Web surfing, Facebook, and online services like email and Microsoft 365 performed well. I was also able to watch YouTube videos and Stream Netflix with no issues. Yes, it is not as fast as my high-dollar laptop with the power hungry CPU, but I wasn't expecting it to be.I also added a 128GB microSDXC card which works great for extra storage. I also like that I can add a 2.5-Inch SSD if I care to do so later.So far I am really enjoying this Mini PC, I will update this review once I have had a chance to use it a little more.

Well, I bet my review will be significantly different from other users because of the unique application I found with this mini PC.It was originally bought for the streaming of video to a projector I got earlier for my little daughter. Then I talked to a colleague who mentioned such a small device can be used for some scientific tasks with not very intensive data acquisition (DAQ). I think it is worth to try as it saves money and people in the academia all know about the current funding situation. One difficulty is indeed the 32GB eMMC disk space which was about totally consumed after one single Win 10 home update right after I turned on the machine. The disk space left is insufficient for the installation of the LabVIEW. So I reached out the tech support of the company to discuss the potential solutions. After some communications, the engineer suggested installing an SSD; cloning the eMMC system imaging to the SSD; then change the start-up sequence first with the SSD. I dug out an old 256GB SSD from a retired old laptop and proceeded following the suggestions. It works out pretty well that I was able to get all software including LabVIEW, NI-MAX, Dropbox, Acrobat Reader, and chrome etc. (I just noticed they now have a 64 GB version now, an SSD may not be necessary if going the newer version.)After setting up the machine, I was able to run my LabVIEW VIs immediately on the mini PC. I used it to control a heater controller driving 3 heating tapes up to 1500 W with multiple point temperature monitoring and feedback to maintain the process temperatures at a user-defined constant setting. The communication between the mini PC and the heater controller is established via a USB-to-RS485 converter. I attached a photo showing the setup in my lab and the VI running interface. The mini PC has been running stable for a little more than two weeks now. I am pretty satisfied with its performance. In addition, comparing to a typical PC workstation used in the lab easily costs 1-2k at least, its price is only about 10%Although it is probably still not powerful enough to run high-speed DAQ for the scientific tasks. I think it is more than enough for such slow control task with not quite demanding data rate. The advantages of cost-efficient and small size make me consider using it for the slow control for my future experiments. As a scientist, I would highly recommend it for moderate load DAQ tasks such as slow control or room temperature monitoring. Other normal home application such as video streaming should be trivial.

Estaba buscando una pequeña computadora para hacer tareas sencillas y esta cumple bastante bien con lo que uso.Arranca bastante rápido una vez que pasas de la primera configuración y no he tenido problemas con alguno de los programas que uso.Ciertamente se nota lo barato de su construcción, pero me parece que la relación calidad/precio es correcta.Definitivamente un SSD es un complemento necesario, pero creo que eso ya es algo común.En cuestión de entretenimiento, mis videos funcionan bien. La principal queja que tiene mucha gente con estos equipos es que no reproducen bien 4K y me parece que tienen razón (a pesar de que la caja dice que puede hacerlo), particularmente eso no me importa mucho pero es bueno que lo tomen en cuenta. En cuanto a juegos, no tengo mucho problema con steam pero también sólo tengo juegos que no demandan mucho a nivel gráfico. Juegos con mayores exigencias no deberían correr apropiadamente.Nuevamente, esta PC es para trabajos sencillos y un poco de entretenimiento.

Cumplió lo que ofrecieron. Hasta ahora bien desempeño, espero se mantenga trabajando correctamente.