How Much Should You Spend On A Mini PC?

Today I'm going to go over exactly what you get for your money when you buy a Mini PC at different prices!

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Intro: Captive Portal - Intro For A Nonexisting Video Game
Outro: RoccoW - Chipho instrumental

- CHAPTERS -
00:00 How much should you spend?
01:27 Test subjects
03:04 Desktop/Productivity
04:45 Gaming
05:42 Old games
06:43 "Nord" VPN
08:09 AAA Games
09:46 Emulation
11:27 Summary
13:24 Wrap up

DISCLAIMER: Product was sent to me for the purpose of review. No company had any say in the video content, and did not get the chance to see the video before it was published. No money exchanged hands and all opinions are my own.

[JQueasy]

Fully watched the ad. Who hasn't had a necromancer attempt to steal your personal data.

[RetroBreezeYT]

"Lots of mini PCs oouht there"

[nicklong]

That segway into the advert.... smooth. What a nerd.

[conza]

Really nice video - especially positive impact from the ad spot, few people on YouTube who I like the ads for, that now includes, TechDweeb :)

[digitizer]

Great video. 110% agree. I choose the mid ground too but expanded it with Crucial m.2 SSD's. Awesome shoutout to Crucial I love their external harddrives❤

[FallenAngel]

Recently ordered a Palmshell SLiM X2L with 8GB. Can´t wait to get my Hands on it.

[KFJordan]

Babe wake up, new techdweeb video is out!

[KingKalosth]

Great content as always! Pleasure to watch all the way through, you deserve way more subs!

[wizzel]

Beelink SER5 5800H is my main Mini-PC. It caps out on 55W, but you can cut it at 45W. Playing Retro Games is enough for me (RAZE, GZDOOM, Force Engine). It's the perfect Mid-Range Machine.

[rw-pjdl]

I have little interest in many of the devices you review but your videos are excellent! Thanks for what you do!

[Deadmare]

Thanks for the info I'm thinking of picking up a mini pc for more advanced emulation. At the moment I just have a cube x3 but I want to play ps2 and ps3 Era stuff. I'm curious about the external hard drive you showed do those come in bigger sizes?

[Lastjustice]

I been building retrogaming cabinets with Rasberry Pi4s in them, but I knew I'd someday want to replace them with mini pcs, so i figured I'd start learning about them a bit. This video was a good starting point.

[simonwl]

Do you think emulation performance (specifically GameCube and above) would be improved by installing a Linux disto on theses PCs?

[omarguerrero]

Just wish there was gamepad for these devices to be easily usable, I been playing call of duty 2 and modern warefare 2 2009 on my beelink mini pc

[crystal_is_cozy]

Ooh thanks for this, I think the $140 one would be perfect for putting in an arcade cabinet and running pico-8 on. I wonder if I should just go with that and forgo poking at a raspberry pi.

[thomasmccormack]

I have been gaming with the Minisforum um790 Playing lots of Forza Horizon 5 and Civilization VI. Just amazing you can game on something so small and quiet.

[-Astro--]

Great video prof dweeb, just what i needed 😃👍

[rhythmandblues]

When’s your Skate 3 tutorial coming out? Mad skillz, bro…

[dmann]

I have wondered about getting a Mini PC or similar to attach Hard Drives and the like to, because more storage for gaming, for a while, considering I have a laptop and space is a premium to me, and this video might help with it maybe...

[utsavgoswami]

any mini PC that you recommend for running LLMs and RAG applications locally?