Well, I have had this device for 10 months now. Its been running well, although trying to play even simple games on it has been frustrating. However I did fins a fix which i have been using for a little over a month, and it is running smother and better than it ever did. I installed a Linux distro on it, specifically i installed the latest stable LTS Pop!_OS on it, while i have been partial to Manjaro in the past i decided to see if Pop!_OS would work well, and wow it is very clean and the system runs smoother than it ever did with Windows installed on it, even right out of the box. What attracted me to this device originally was its size, minimal desk space, or in my case counter space. Its small and compact making it easy to move around or hide behind other things, like the TV for instance. The size makes it convenient to move and use, making it quite versatile for a few fast setup applications. The multiple display connection ports, LAN, and USB ports make this thing very handy for its size too. But I will say that Windows does not let this little beast do its thing, Windows runs too many background processes and seriously bogs the poor thing down. Even trying to do simple things with windows running, like watching videos, or playing simple games, like Houseflipper, or Inscription on Steam, made the system almost unusable, and made any kind of game play just unbearable. But about a moth or so ago, i got fed up with windows because it insisted on doing updates while i was trying to do an online Teams meeting for work and well it was just bad all the ways it could be. Made it seem like is was using a POS machine, which i knew it shouldn't be running that bad. So i backed up files that weren't backed up already, and did a full clean install of Pop!_OS, and the improvement was noticeable from the moment the machine booted back up after install. First, boot-up was fast, and there were no issues logging into the device, connecting to the home network was smooth, fast, simple, there were no pop up ads, or notifications trying to get me to install this or that, or a million stupid updates or other background processes slowing me down. So just to see how well it was going work after, I installed steam, and installed houseflipper and inscryption, both games ran smooth, and clean, absolutely zero lag. So i decided to really see what i could do, i installed a bit more graphics heavy games, No Mans Sky, Borderlands 3, and Palworld, and i was shocked, all three ran wonderfully, i wasn't able to play these games with Windows installed as the OS, there was no way, those games were absolutely unplayable under Windows. But with Pop! Linux and steam installed, this little machine turned into a beast!!! I don't know why I waited so long to remove windows from this little machine, but that's probably my only gripe about this machine, is it comes with probably the worst possible operating system installed. There are plenty of other Linux distros out there that would probably work well without issue on this device, Like I said I'v used manjaro before, and still do on an old Acer desktop i got back in 2019, but just wanted to test out Pop!_OS this time and was very surprised! So overall this is a great machine, but I would suggest removing Windows OS if you actually plan to use this machine for anything.
