Why do these exist?

all right so keeping in with my super

cheap stuff on Amazon reviews uh I

bought this this is the bmax Mini PC cuz

it says so right there it's $109

all-in-one little Thin Client PC that I

want to see if it actually has any sort

of use case and then because of the fact

that on the monitor I realized there

were better monitors at a cheaper price

or at least there were better monitors

for a little bit more I did get a next

like Dam the weight difference between

these two this is the boss boss game or

whatever that's better it was like $40

more than this one or $50 more or

something like that maybe I don't

remember the price we'll talk about it

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okay so the bmax uh B1 Pro they have B1

B2 B3 I think even up to a B5 this is

like bottom of the bottom of the bottom

like the only thing I would think this

could possibly be used for is maybe

basic like internet browsing maybe like

1080p full HD like video decoding for

like um Netflix and stuff like that

maybe as a transcoder for like you know

steam uh at home where you can play from

one system and over a video stream and

decode it on another so so we'll see in

terms of connectivity and stuff uh the

specs it is a Intel Gemini Lake n4000

Celeron Processor which is like the very

bottom spec it's like 1.6 GHz or

something like that dual core processor

now the other one I got right here this

is the boss game multi functional Mini

PC which I was like you know what I

think this thing is probably be complete

garbage even though it has decent

reviews on uh Amazon I wanted to see

what maybe a little bit better option

would be so the boss game is it the b95

PC yeah the b95 Mini PC is an Intel 12th

gen n95 up to 3.4 GHz Mini PC uh with

Windows 11 pre-installed 16 GB of RAM a

512 GB m.2 SSD so not an nvme it's an

m.2

SSD um and it supports 4K it's got dual

Wi-Fi 5 I also forgot to mention this

one over here uh it is an 8 GB V or 8

gbt of ram which also the igpu has to

access but trust me I don't think the

igp is going to be able to do much to be

honest except maybe display an image um

what was the storage capacity 128 GB of

emmc mini desktop oh it's a emmc so it

is not going to be good at all and it's

a low profile ddr4 Ram so I wonder if

that any of that can actually be updated

so let's take a look what we get in the

box with this guy

okay it's like

Hollow okay so you can see it's got a

vent that also says Be Max and then on

this side we can see we've got our

ethernet port a full siiz e ethernet

port headphone combo Jack HDMI port 2

usba a and then again our power port

power button on the other side we have

two more usba a Micro SD um uh card slot

and VGA let's open it up and see what's

on the inside cuz I want to know if

there's any sort of upgradeability to

this whatsoever when it comes to like

maybe the storage or the ram but the

storage already is pretty

garbage I was also hoping that maybe it

would have had like a Vasa Mount type of

deal cuz a lot of times what people will

do with these yes they do right there is

they can mount them to like the back of

the monitor or something so then it sort

of gives you like um you could use it as

sort of like a

smart device for like a TV maybe that's

a dumb TV and doesn't have apps and

stuff built in if you want to watch

Netflix and Hulu and all that

crap or it's just a

$100 PCI Mac there is an m.2 slot so

that's good news so you can put real

storage on this if you want to so that's

that is accessible right there real m.2

storage um I'm not sure how the rest of

this opens up I bet you it's one of

those things where like there's screw

holes underneath the rubber feet hey I

am so

smart there's not much in there just a

this is this is the heat sink all right

let's put back together and make sure it

works and turns on okay so here it is

right here on our cheap Amazon basic

monitor uh where is my power

button oh it just has no lights or

sounds so it's CU it's all solid state

stuff so I was like oh there's a blue

light right there I see it okay let's

see how long this takes cuz to put it in

perspective this came out in terms of

the cpu's age came out around the same

time as like the 8700 K so I guess while

we're waiting for it to turn on we can

uh see what the price was the other one

cuz I forgot to say what the price was

on the uh boss game it was $169.99 for

the boss

game okay this is bringing back memories

of the how long it takes Windows to do

something

memories guess we can do the unboxing of

this guy while we wait this one's

significantly heavier and feels more

like quality that's for

sure yay oh my God the frame rate of

that

menu

had it think so long after you select a

language that's pretty bad okay back to

what I was doing over here so here's the

power brick and stuff that comes with

this one little bit beefier as you can

see it's all contained right here it's

like a regular old Barrel plug it's

thicker cable though it really is I have

no idea what the watts are in this also

comes with a HDMI

cable comes with the same Vasa type

bracket to mount it to the the back of a

monitor or wherever and then this guy is

thicker boy like

me and it definitely looks more like a a

more quality mini PC but 170 Bucks

versus 109 it's a 14th gen CPU or 12

sorry 12th gen CPU so again probably

nothing but a couple ecores in here to

be honest is probably all that's in here

but this one actually gives us a USBC 2

USB 3 and on the back actual Heat sink

two

HDMI and then two more usba an actual

ethernet land and our DC plug and that's

all we get on this one but this one

allows me to actually open it

up you doing okay over

there it's still going this one allows

me to actually open it up without having

to remove the feet cuz they're probably

not as embarrassed of what's inside this

one oh that's cool it even gives you a

slot to put in actual 2 and 1/2 in drive

that's what this is so you can actually

put a half 2 and 1 half inch Drive in

here my question for that I think that's

what that's for anyways if that was the

case where do the cables go okay so

almost there good to go keep going guy

you got this so here's our m.2 drive

right here we actually have removable

Ram so you can upgrade the RAM that's

already like a plus okay let me put this

back on this guy's ready finally oh dear

God I right clicked a while ago okay we

have we have to set

the can it even go 75 HZ to match our

panel hey excuse me 74.9

S keep changes all right let's see what

happens if we go

to I think I clicked

it oh no oh this is not good it's still

trying open Chrome I just want to see

what video playback is like all right

youtube.com brand new fresh system I

have never tried to like oh my goodness

I've never tried to load anything on

this system before so everything we're

seeing is a brand new out of thebox user

experience let's go to that guy Jay's

two cents shall we a bunch of crappy ass

videos there is this is one of the I

went looking for weird I went looking

for weird things on Amazon

video okay let's start with

1080p when I'm bored I like to shop

around on Amazon and see what random

crap I can find actually it's not

terrible it's actually playing back the

video

okay okay happens when I go to 4K you

know what one cable there so you no

there's no lighting lighting I haven't

plug that in yet so

it here's the reality though everyone's

cell phone is stronger than this thing

in many many ways

I think there's better options for 109

bucks

honestly wow I took forever to close can

it can it do Solitaire man soliter got

high death some at one point didn't it

has sounds has XP what okay well it

plays solitire fine it's capable of

displaying an image playing a video it's

pretty warm actually right

now like there's a there's a bit of

warmth coming out here it is passively

cooled there's not a whole lot of Vents

and stuff on it like this thing's

actually I think playing solitary in

those videos actually stressed it a

little bit enough of that I was

initially going to try Steam remote play

on it I don't think it'll be able to do

it I think it's even below the specs for

that to be honest uh even though you

could do it on your your phone and stuff

so what we're going to do now is we're

going to go ahead and give the uh boss

game a a shot here we'll see if this one

can redeem

our opinions on Mini PCS all right so I

hit the power button it's turning on has

a power light it even has a clear seos

like paperclip recess button on there to

clear the

seos

but hit the power button a while ago we

haven't got an image yet on the bmax at

least we got an image immediately oh it

turned

white

nope just

kidding

oh there we go the HDMI wasn't plugged

it all the way there's two clicks it's

like click and years of computer

experience guys we still do it okay so

this one is already noticeably more

responsive uh which is a good thing

obviously it should has a cooling fan in

there it's got a 12 gen CPU versus a e

gen

CPU um let's see what it shows our

performance currently as so it is

running it say at 100% right now 2.7 GHz

100% uh and the CPU is a Intel n95 I'm

not even sure what an n95 is I'm going

look that up it says 12th gen but what's

it equivalent to so an Intel n95 is a uh

products formerly Alder Lake Alder Lake

n okay it's a lithography is Intel 7 max

turbo frequency is 3.4 GHz it's four

cores four threads so it's four physical

cores no hyperthreading anything like

that it launched in q1 of 23 it's max

memory size is 16 GB you can't throw a

32 gig stick in here if you wanted to

it's kind of crazy how much faster this

thing is versus the other computer like

Boop so we'll be trying uh local play

First with just like rocket League

nothing crazy and then what we're going

to try is a remote connect um either

through directly through Steam or the

third party client what's it moonshine

moonshine moonshine yeah moonlight

moonlight sorry moonshine's that's

something entirely different and going

back there than

prohibition it's so bad why does it look

like I'm looking through a drunk dream

like I have to think so hard because

it's very like it's like I'm playing

through drunk goggles it's the best way

to put it okay I I I didn't expect

anything positive to come out of native

gameplay so now we need to do the

decoder version from my 4090 system and

see what's happening there eh dude I

can't even tell where the ball's going

it's so

bad for these types of systems too it

actually really helps to disable all of

the Windows Defender like security type

stuff cuz believe it or not that we've

noticed score improvements with like

highend CPUs by turning it off when we

Benchmark imagine what does to a super

lowend CPU like this all right so now

we're going to use moon light to try and

we're just going to remote desktop

basically into my gaming system to see

how it does through just a regular

encoder I am plugged into ethernet it is

a 10 GB backbone uh nothing crazy but

better than a gigabit so let's see how

well this works same exact thing as you

can see it's already much

crisper I haven't touched anything I

could actually see it running on my

other system over

there okay this is already much better

still a little bit behind like still

slightly laggy but that's because we're

dealing with the time for it to send a

signal and en code and send it over

there and send it back right but it's

already it's a much better experience

than playing on it like it was

native it's very crisp my god I've never

seen a video like I remember when stream

game like streaming Games first started

back in like 2014 2015 it was terrible

it was so bad this is so good like right

now if Phil were to ask me like hey

anything feel weird i' like no I think

seem pretty normal be like oh cuz that's

actually a stream I would be like you've

got to be kidding me I wouldn't believe

it to be

honest um hold on I don't think I'm

supposed to be driving a car over here

hold

on oh my God you Austin Powers D I can

fix this oh it's a little bit laggy it's

a little bit laggy so I think no m or

what there's going to be some lag but

this computer is doing a pretty good job

of it I mean I don't think the lag I'm

feeling and the little bit of latency

which is probably in the 25 millisecond

range maybe which it's not terrible but

it's not great I don't think it's

necessarily related to this processor

speed of this particular little mini PC

I think that's just the nature of game

streaming right now that system has to

encode it send it over the system or

over the Internet or excuse me ethernet

and then this has to decode it and then

do the same thing in Reverse like I I

said regarding my inputs so it's

actually come a long long way and to be

honest I am incredibly impressed with

how good the quality of the image looks

so this thing would be obviously very

very capable of you know being used as a

little remote gaming type system anyway

there you go you guys have asked for

more like unique different type stuff

obviously the boss game at $169 is way

better than the bmax B1 P1 whatever it

is at 109 109 bucks is a complete waste

of money I I'm trying to find any sort

of redemption to like well I've got it

and I can

do what with it I mean this is like the

kind of PC to and people are always like

put a computer in a battleship cuz my

battleship models and stuff I could

actually fit this in one and then make

it do something stupid as a battleship

PC but anyway I'll put links to these

PCS down below maybe you guys have a use

case for them I think they come in handy

for maybe um like they could probably

play internet based like flash games no

problem like and then games like Roblox

and things like that online it probably

be maybe a solution for a kid I don't

know there's got to be some use case for

it so you guys can sign off down below

what you would use this for if anything

um I've always wondered why these mini

PCS exist but a lot of them exist

there's a lot of them in fact I found

them up to like 6 seven 800 bucks I'm

like now we're getting into like

entry-level gaming desktop PC range and

what what you can build today for like

six 600 or 700 bucks for a desktop it

better be one hell of a mini all-in-one

to to justify that sort of cost all

right guys thanks for watching sound off

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