PELADN HO4 Mini PC Intel® Core™ i5-12450H

I purchased this mini computer to replace a big desktop. I mostly use my computer for home office and video streaming services (I haven't had cable TV for years). The computer runs quietly and is usually in use 12 to 16 hours a day. I love the speed of the SSD drive for the operating system and the dual HDMI outputs allow me to use two monitors. I'm not a big gamer so I didn't rate the computer for gaming but I've already recommended this system to some of my crew.

I replaced a docked surface pro 4 with this and I've been very pleased. It's powerful enough that I have been playing Baldur's Gate 3 on it with only the occasional lag which for a turn-based game, does not affect gameplay.

Things I Love: This thing is FAST. I am using it to run TrueNAS Scale mini-home lab. The two 2.5G/b ports make it great to connect to my 2.5G/b switch, then I have my plex server replicating to the storage pool I built for the thing. The other thing though is that this thing has enough cores to not only run my Truenas Scale instance, but Nextcloud and a bunch of other docker containers. You can even adjust the power & fan speed settings in BIOS. It's a neat conversation starter with the little RGB ring around the top too. I think I might put some more ram in, but for now it's working great!
Things I wish it had: I wish the ports on the back were 3.1 (they are 2.0) and I wish there were two USB4 ports on the device. In all, you only get 1 USB-C 4.0 port and two 3.1 ports, which is fine with my little USB 3.1 J-Bod for the storage.

I just use this as an always-on PC that regularly runs some scripts and manages my home storage. Was just looking for something cheap that wouldn't be slow/janky. Works as advertised. Quite happy.

Hey all.. bought this to run Ubuntu 22.04 instead of taking a chance on another refurbed laptop. Thought I would add this review in case someone else was thinking of running Linux on this. Installed the Ubuntu .iso from USB stick (just press F7 while booting to choose the USB boot option) and did a clean install of Ubuntu using the erase entire disk option (I don't need/want Windows on it so didn't do dual boot). I didn't change any BIOS options before installing and didn't need any custom options or drivers during the install. Worked perfectly and very responsive. Using Wayland vice X11 and works like a champ. Nice little machine!!!!!