ASUS ExpertCenter PN42 Fanless Mini PC Barebone with Intel 12th gen Quad Core N100, Dual 4K Support, Dual LAN, 7 x USB, COM Port, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth, VESA Mount

Generally a nicely built and well behaved device; however, if you factor in the price of DDR4 SODIMM and SSD that you need to buy separately, the whole build turns out not cheap.This mini-PC has no internal fans and gets hot on the outside. Its case is made of plastic, they should have put it into a metal casing to better dissipate heat. The power consumption varies from about 6 to 20 W, most of the time when under load it is somewhere about 14-15W.There are 6 USB ports of normal size, no USB-C, three video outputs and two Ethernet ports.I installed Windows 10 on it and use it as a torrent box for days without turning it off or restarting, also as an internet browser / youtube player for an hour or two per day; it works stable and the performance is satisfying.However, when I occasionally watch movies from external SSD connected via USB3 port, the videos sometimes freeze for about 10 seconds, and then the playback goes on as if the mini-PC loses connection to the USB drive and then restores it. I don’t have such issues with the same external drive on my other computers.Also, the LED on the front panel is very bright and when this mini-PC goes into sleep mode it blinks violently. At night it could easily drive someone mad, you might want to put a sticker on it.