Comments on: Android mini PC with 2GB of RAM for just $70 http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/12/31/android-mini-pc-2gb/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Sun, 19 May 2013 11:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ruckus http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/12/31/android-mini-pc-2gb/#comment-64674 Ruckus Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:04:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=143320#comment-64674 Clicked the source link... Looking at the customer reviews seems to tell a tale of only 1GB of RAM. Shenanigans? Clicked the source link… Looking at the customer reviews seems to tell a tale of only 1GB of RAM. Shenanigans?

]]> By: Paul Barwick http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/12/31/android-mini-pc-2gb/#comment-64480 Paul Barwick Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:33:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=143320#comment-64480 I got a Minix Neo G4 the other day. I am using it to replace a desktop computer which died recently. It's a tad slower than the Acer AX-1700 that it replaced, but than again it only cost $69 at NewEgg. It's a secondary computer that I use mostly for email, web browsing, Netflix and other streaming video and audio, and watching TV with the signal coming from my HD Homerun tuner. All my accessories from the old computer, keyboard, mouse, sound system, work fine. I have them all plugged into a powered USB hub and that plugged into the one USB port on the device. I actually like this better than the Windows 8 I had on the desktop machine. Microsoft has the right idea with apps and buttons, but it isn't very well implimented on Win8. The Android format is really easy to use. It has taken me a little while to find Android apps to do everything that I was used to doing on the desktop machine, but I think that I have found it all now. These little computers on a stick are nowhere near as powerful as a desktop machine, but truth be told many of us never do anything with our computers that requires more than a minimal effort from the thing. Microsoft should start getting worried. Very worried. I got a Minix Neo G4 the other day. I am using it to replace a desktop computer which died recently. It’s a tad slower than the Acer AX-1700 that it replaced, but than again it only cost $69 at NewEgg. It’s a secondary computer that I use mostly for email, web browsing, Netflix and other streaming video and audio, and watching TV with the signal coming from my HD Homerun tuner. All my accessories from the old computer, keyboard, mouse, sound system, work fine. I have them all plugged into a powered USB hub and that plugged into the one USB port on the device.

I actually like this better than the Windows 8 I had on the desktop machine. Microsoft has the right idea with apps and buttons, but it isn’t very well implimented on Win8. The Android format is really easy to use. It has taken me a little while to find Android apps to do everything that I was used to doing on the desktop machine, but I think that I have found it all now.

These little computers on a stick are nowhere near as powerful as a desktop machine, but truth be told many of us never do anything with our computers that requires more than a minimal effort from the thing. Microsoft should start getting worried. Very worried.

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