AWOW Mini PC, Intel Celeron J4105 8GB LPDDR4, 128GB M.2 SATA SSD, Mini Desktop Computer, Micro PC, Windows 10 Pro, 4K HD, Dual HDMI 1.4, Dual WiFi

Un prodotto che fa quello che promette.

Fa egregiamente il suo dovere

Giovanni

Recensito in Italia il 5 luglio 2022

Il rapporto qualità prezzo è ottimo, certamente non ci si può aspettare prestazioni di chi sa che tipo ma per il prezzo che è fa egregiamente il suo lavoro.

Recensito in Italia il 27 agosto 2022

È il primo pc per mia figlia. Prestazioni buone, non scalda tanto e viene usato quasi a tutte le ore, sia per game, che per School.

Recensito in Italia il 18 aprile 2022

ga sostituito un rosberry, perfetto

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Luca Maria D'Apuzzo

Rotto dopo 2 settimane

Recensito in Italia il 28 aprile 2022

Non comprate questa mondezza.
Smesso completamente di funzionare dopo 2 settimane.

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Funzionale ma instabile. Tende a bloccarsi e richiedere un riavvio manuale.

Marco Franchi

Recensito in Italia il 24 febbraio 2023

Dopo molti mesi di utilizzo posso confermare che questo mini-pc non potentissimo é utile, piccolo e leggero ma instabile. Tende a bloccarsi di tanto in tanto (una volta ogni due mesi circa), richiedendo un riavvio manuale da pulsante di accensione. Sconsigliato.

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ropel

Ottimo

Recensito in Italia il 11 agosto 2023

Preso per fare con pfsense un minifirewall da mettere fra il router e la rete: tutto perfetto.
Silenziosissimo (se non è sotto carico intenso la ventola non gira neanche), svolge alla grande il suo lavoro.
Piccola nota alle istruzioni: per entrare nel BIOS non si utilizza il tasto "canc", ma il tasto "F2". Peccato per il windows preinstallato, che ho tolto subito: ci fosse stata una versione senza OS sarebbe stato meglio

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Ian

Handy bit of kit - and great technical support!

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 4 marzo 2023

First, to review the device itself. I shopped around at the time, and found that mini PCs with two 1Gbps NICs are fairly rare, yet very important if you're intending to use it as a firewall/router/home-server as I was.

The CPU, memory, and SSD (I believe it's an M.2) storage included are more than reasonable for the price of the device, a bundle of USB 3.0 ports makes it easy for me to add more storage (I have a 10TB WD USB drive plugged in for storing backups of desktop PCs/laptops on the network), and although I don't use them, the dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth support will be useful to others.

Installing Linux (Ubuntu) on it was easy, and I replaced my aging Zotac with it and was very happy; it was smaller, quieter, cooler, faster and easier to use.

However, there was a problem; every week or two, roughly, it would crash (Linux general protection faults and kernel panics, and eventually system freeze). Someone in the family would notice internet access disappear (as I was using it for my firewall/router) and I'd investigate, and have to reboot. Initially it was so infrequent, I thought nothing of it, but when, after owning the device around 5 months, I had 3 freezes in a 24-hour period, I decided I had to look into it.

After some investigation and research, I came to the conclusion the hardware (probably the memory or motherboard) was most likely faulty. When most of the family was out, I took the device down for an hour to run a pass of memtest86+ but that didn't show any errors. I did various software troubleshooting - updated to the latest kernel and other packages, verified the integrity of the files (debsums), etc. After another crash showed that none of that had helped, I decided to contact Awow support. After a few messages back and forth (and they were fairly quick to respond), including sharing some of my logs and observations with them, they agreed with me that it was probably faulty hardware, and asked me to return it so that they could send me a new one.

Now, I'm using this is as my firewall/router, and it was still very functional, despite the occasional crashes. To remove it would involve a bit of work reconfiguring things, and I would lose some of the services on my network. It wouldn't be impossible, but it would be inconvenient and take several hours of my time to change everything over (and change it back afterwards). I asked Awow's support team if there was any chance they could send me a new one first, and let me replace it, then send back the old one, and I did offer to use my credit card as a guarantee if necessary. I was pleasantly surprised - gobsmacked, even! - when, understanding my difficulty, they agreed to ship me out a replacement first, at no cost, no guarantee needed.

I've now received the new one (just a few days later), run memtest86+ on it for 24 hours and got no errors. I've installed everything on it and configured it all, and then swapped the devices, total downtime about 2 minutes! Since it was a weekend and I couldn't ship it back yet, I then ran memtest86+ on the old one for over 24 hours, and did eventually see some memory errors; a pretty obscure fault to find!

So, in conclusion, a very handy bit of kit, and an excellent support team to help you out if you're unlucky enough to have a problem. I'm very happy with my purchase.

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T S.

Well designed mini PC for offfice work

Recensito in Germania il 24 settembre 2022

This mini PC has a very good size and is very handy.
All necessary interfaces are available to connect home office equipment here.
E.g. you have 2 HDMI Ports, 5 USB3 Ports (absolutely enough for all kinds of external sticks)
And the best is, you can connect 2 Ethernet lines and use this mini PC not only for office work
but also as an external firewall, as a router, which you should self install.
The package has WIN 10 preinstalled. I am very satisfied with this product.
WLAN and bluetooth are also on board. And last but not least, you can connect a micro SD card in separated slot. Price is unbeatable.

Richard Karner

Ist ok

Recensito in Germania il 14 gennaio 2023

Verwende den Rechner als Hardware für PF Sense- funktioniert gut. Aber Achtung das Gerät muss frei stehen, da die Kühlung des Gerätes... eher dürftig ausgefallen ist. Auch den Lüfter hört man recht stark...

Stoz

Very good item

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 aprile 2022

Very happy with this purchase - good value for money

Sceptical_but_interested

Review for firewall use case - 8GB J4105 version

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 novembre 2022

I've had this mini PC for a week now and have trialled it as a firewall sitting behind my router for my home network.

It sounds like a decent set of specs for the money. I set up both pfSense and ipfire as firewall software solutions to test performance and compared that with the Seeed Studios Odyssey Blue SBC using the same mSATA SSD that shipped with the AWOW unit.

The AWOW comes with Win10 pre-installed. I backed up the SSD and then did fresh installs of both pfSense and ipfire so no need for dual booting.

Installation of both pfSense and ipfire went fairly well but there was no documentation to identify default WAN and LAN ethernet connections on the AWOW so there was some trial and error required. For users new to setting up a firewall this could be an issue. The ports are WAN on the right and LAN on the left.

Both ethernet ports are full GbE Realtek. My tests showed the same individual throughput on both boards. SSD speeds were also pretty much identical.

In practice however, both pfSense and ipfire were noticeably slower in day to day use on the AWOW. With no plugins installed on either firewall solution, even simple web browsing was laggy on the AWOW. Pages were typically hit with a 1 to 2 second delay while the Odyssey Blue was almost instantaneous. Ping times across my network were also much higher on the AWOW.

Plugins installed easily on both boards but the pfSense and ipfire dashboards were noticeably slower to refresh on the AWOW. My hunch is that the Realtek chipset is the culprit responsible for the slower performance. I've decided to stick with the Odyssey Blue for my pfSense firewall. The AWOW performance just isn't up to daily use.

I'm now not sure what to use the AWOW for. It works as a useable basic Win10 mini PC and would run a x86_64 Linux distro well, but I already have hardware doing just that. It's overkill for a media player, both in terms of hardware and size. It doesn't have built in Arduino like my LattePanda Delta. Its USP is those two GbE ports but their performance together is poor.

One other thing to be aware of is that the AWOW power button has stuck twice in a week of testing. I can see it breaking and the unit having to be returned.

If you're looking for a SBC/Mini PC to use as a firewall, I can't recommend the AWOW. You might have to wait for the Odyssey Blue, and pay an extra £40, but it will be worth it.

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