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The prices went up recently, but another similar one is the Morefine M8S (on aliexpress). N5105, 16G ram, 512GB SSD, 3x HDMI, 3x USB 3.0, 2x gigabit ethernet, Wi-Fi6, BT5.2, USB-C charging, ~$253.


What's the use-case for this PC by the way?

I'm in the market for a cheap PC/Laptop for my kids (minecraft, zoom, MS teams, chrome, and Roblox)


N5105 Jasper Lake systems do this pretty well. Has a good iGPU, particularly for a low end budget intel chip. Efficient. Has Quick Sync for video.

The laptops use the N6000 chip, N5105 is for the small desktop lines. There is also a more expensive N6005 for desktop.

N6000 is more aggressive in power savings. So higher single thread, lower multi. It also has more silicon dedicated to the GPU, which is about a 25% boost (30 execution units vs 24).

The biggest practical difference I've seen is that 95% of the laptops have fixed memory that tops out at 8GB. HP has one that accepts an SO-DIMM. If this is a reasonable level for the minecraft they do then you should be fine. I know with my kid's systems I had to go up to 12GB because of the mods they like.




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