I recently bought this mini PC, the goal was to install FreeBSD and use it as daily-driver, unfortunately I couldn't meet some specific criteria thus I had to move on Linux... ![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
Anyway I used FreeBSD for one week and my evaluation is surely positive, here a brief recap:
If compared with my previous setup, which was a SBC LibreComputer ROC-3328-CC, the difference is abysmal. Same size, better performance, it is a real computer, I use (and used) headless with TigerVNC and you get GPU acceleration and X working flawless.
If you're looking for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD, this works just fine.
Thanks...![Winking face :wink: 😉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
Anyway I used FreeBSD for one week and my evaluation is surely positive, here a brief recap:
- CPU/GPU: Alder-lake gen, works by compiling drm-61-kmod
- Ethernet: good
- Wifi: good with firmware
- Mini SD reader: not recognized
- Video only 2 HDMI port: good for multimedia
; bad for recent monitor that usually have only display port
- USB: 3 USB-A-v3
; 1 USB-C used for power supply
- Audio jack: not tested
- Size: very compact
- Noise: very silent
- Performance: good
- Ram: good, up to 12GB
- Storage: 1 m2-sata
If compared with my previous setup, which was a SBC LibreComputer ROC-3328-CC, the difference is abysmal. Same size, better performance, it is a real computer, I use (and used) headless with TigerVNC and you get GPU acceleration and X working flawless.
If you're looking for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD, this works just fine.
Thanks...
![Winking face :wink: 😉](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)