Azulle Inspire i5 Fanless Mini PC - Business & Home Computer Desktop Replacement, Ethernet, WiFi, HD Graphics, Bluetooth 4.0

Awesome bit of hardware. I put 16GB ram, a 256GB SSD and a 4 TB hard drive in it and set it up as a Plex player and server on top of Windows 10. This thing is a powerhouse for Plex. It will play literally any file type, including any 4K files, and any sound type including True HD 7.1 without requiring transcoding from your server. Wifi and ethernet performance is excellent. If you stay in Plex, then it's an excellent device. If you want to venture outside of that, and use streaming services (like Amazon or Netflix), then you come up against the fact that it's a PC and not a TV device with a nice remote and slick UI. Gets very clunky to use if you venture outside of Plex and Kodi. As a tiny PC though, it's fantastic.

Nicely packaged. Quality looks OK.But it will not fit a standard thickness 15 mm 2.5" HDD even if the product description says it does:"you can use the M.2 card and/or a 2.5 SSD or HDD.Designed with a Micro SD card slot to allow up to an extra 256GB"Contacted support and they are fully aware of this. Hopefully they will change the description soon before more people fall for it.

I'm very impressed on the performance of this small form factor PC. I did have a little trouble setting up Ubuntu on the PC, installation would keep failing, but once I turned off hardware virtualization in the bios, the install worked flawlessly. I was able to install Windows 10 without any issues, just Linux. I bought this PC so I could get away from Windows and get use to Linux, I'm so happy I did. I mainly connect to this PC remotely from work, and use it for it's extra proformance over the cheap work PC's my company provides.As for what I put into it, I gave it 16 gigs of ram and added a 250gig samsung m.2 card, also added a 1TB hdd for backups and long term storage.The computer runs cool and silent, I haven't used the wireless option or bluetooth. Overally, the computer is super fast and responsive. I haven't tried to do any gaming on it.I would highly recommend picking up this little guy, you won't be disappointed.

Had this since August 13, 2018. There have been so many exploits since then, and there are zero updates. Zero downloads available (besides manuals and howto video's).It's an ok machine for an HTPC. I was going to rant and write them off as I searched their site... avoided creating a login to ask in yet another forum...... Found zero downloads. But to Azulle's defense, the chat button actually worked on their site. I got a human in a few seconds. And the human azulle was able to tell me that they are working on it. And that they plan on releasing a new bios with the release of the newer inspire (No ETA). Not sure if that means my machine will get an update, or not. And to contact their info email address for possibly a better formed response. Also they have an ftp site, and that's where it would be located (nothing there now though)So I'm torn. On the one hand, what a strange piece of hardware. If you've looked at the BIOS, it's not trimmed down. It's bolted on. There are a million things to tweak and hack on, not excluding a bunch of things most users have no business messing with. All sorts of weird things like laptop like power settings, camera things, deep power management tweaking and TDP settings. consoles and just all kinds of possibly not applicable stuff. Beware. More control than you'd normally have exposed to an end user...... I kind of like that.But there are no updates. Their website is kind of marketing garbage looking.... but I did get a person. And that person also appreciated communicating with a customer. So there's that.yeah so, this is what I'm talking about...... This is why we need bios updates..... This is a somewhat fresh kernelgrep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB fillingso turn off SMT until an update happens..... my 2 pennies.Final thoughts. It's quiet. But it can throttle. Zero fans means the environment needs to cool it. So yeah sometimes my little machine throttles. Most of the time, I don't notice and don't care. occasionally I get tearing. Mitigating any direct sunlight, or keeping the environment cool helps. It's not magic, but also isn't poorly designed. The heatsink is the bulk of the weight and appropriately sized. I've enjoyed the silence and low watts, and don't miss the money spent. That's the best sign of a good enough product. More support would be appreciated though. I have to knock two stars though. Because it's been a year, and zero updates isn't acceptable right now. Any computer company knows this already. Either way they do seem like good people and they've made a product that is interesting.

I acquired the APL J4205 for use as a HTPC. Here are the Pros and Cons as I see them:Pros:- excellent construction (a quality unit)- good selection of storage: 2.5" SSD, M.2 SSD and micro SD- IR receiver a plus (sort of)- CMOS battery removableCons:- much prefer snap in CMOS (CR2032) battery holder vs battery with wire- IR receiver high quality but basically useless without play/pause button- serial port on back is a waste of space - how about a USB 2.0 (for DAC) or more 3.0 ports or even a VGA port

My NUC i3 has had problems for a while and suddenly died. I needed an urgent replacement and wantedto take the opportunity to go to an i5 for better performance. Based on my bad experience with the NUCand the high price of the NUC i5and the reviews of the different small dorm factor PCs I decided to buy thisAzulles Inspire. I was able to plug in my 480GB SSD and 16GB DRams form the dead NUC and it workedimmediately without having to change any settings. I use the PC for CAD work and software development.I was happily surprised by the performance. 3D modelling and transformation are really fast and software compilation times have drastically cut. Just being curious I ran two differnt 4K movies on two separatemonitors at the same time with no discernible problems.I am not a gamer so I cannot give any stars for gaming and I didn't need technical support.

Very nice barebones pc. This comes with a remote control so it can be uaed as a media pc. There is one issue to watchout for if installing linux... default date in the bios is set so far in the future its past epoc. this will cause the computer to not get network connectivity hence no ntp to set the correct time by network. Ensure you set the date correctly in the bios as the first step and everything runs smooth after.

I love this machine. Using it as a home theater pc. Setup was flawless when I used Windows 10. This machine is fanless and doesn't make a sound. I have never seen the temperature rise above 50 celsius when using this for movies and browsing, so the passive cooling works well.I initially tried installing Windows 8 and had problems finding the right drivers. With Windows 10 I didn't have to install any other drivers on my own. It just worked.

Nice console, but hope you may provide official driver package and also update bios regularly.