Core i/Core M (possibly fanless) mini PC, better value than $500, 2014 Mac Mini?

[VirtualLarry]

The device was an interesting experiment, but the QA was terrible, and the company is not to be trusted. In fact, I would avoid Hystou like the plague in the future.

I don't know if it was made by the same company, but
I once bought a mini-PC from one of those Chinese imported sites, had a gold-colored anodized shell. It was quite attractive.

I reformatted it, and put Windows 7 on it, rather than Windows 10. It died in less than a year afterwards.

My post-mortem, was that the power-management in the BIOS wasn't designed for Windows 7, and the CPU fan hadn't been spinning, the whole time.

Eventually, it just failed to power-on as well.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

I don't know if it was made by the same company, but
I once bought a mini-PC from one of those Chinese imported sites, had a gold-colored anodized shell. It was quite attractive.

I reformatted it, and put Windows 7 on it, rather than Windows 10. It died in less than a year afterwards.

My post-mortem, was that the power-management in the BIOS wasn't designed for Windows 7, and the CPU fan hadn't been spinning, the whole time.

Eventually, it just failed to power-on as well.

Yup. You had an ONDA, as I recall. And I'm afraid they were actually supposed to be better known and more diversified than Hystou.

Anyway... all I can do is carpet-bomb the company with bad reviews on every merchant site I can think of.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yup. You had an ONDA, as I recall.

You have a better memory than I. That was the mfg, correct.