MeLE QuieterDL is an Intel N100-powered Mini PC With Dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet

[GGforever]

The MeLE QuieterDL is a freshly launched mini PC with a footprint that is barely larger than a smartphone. The system is available to purchase on Amazon, starting at $159.99. At that price, it is hardly fair to expect powerhouse performance, although the QuieterDL mini PC does live up to its name by sporting a fanless design.

At its core, the system is powered by an Intel N100 CPU. The processor is by no means a screamer, but its quad-core setup with a maximum clock speed of 3.4 GHz should be enough for most day-to-day tasks that are sufficiently lightweight such as managing emails, casual web browsing, and content consumption. The system can be specced with either 4 GB or 8 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, while storage configurations range from 128 GB to 512 GB of NVMe storage, which, thankfully, can be upgraded to a maximum of 4 TB down the line courtesy of its M.2 2280 slot.




That being said, the port selection is actually pretty decent, all things considered. The mini PC boasts dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet, USB-C, triple USB-A 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.4, as well as an audio jack. Wireless connectivity is present as well, made possible by Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1. As previously mentioned, the 4 GB + 128 GB variant of the QuieterDL sells at $159.99, whereas the highest-end 16 GB + 512 GB variant can be purchased for $249.99.

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[bonehead123]

"cheap is as cheap does"....

It looks aesthetically pleasing, but seriously, just spend about $100-150 more & get a better spec'd mini-me box with better wireless & all the other goodies, which is the same or less than you'd spend on upgrading this box to decent spec's anyways, unless you already have the ram & m.2 from a previous machine....

Note that if this is limited to 8GB of ram, that won't get you very far if it's gonna run Windblows...although linux would probably be ok with it though

 

[csendesmark]

"Dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet"
Almost there!!!
Integrated 10Gbps NIC
Integrated 10Gbps NIC
Integrated 10Gbps NIC
Integrated 10Gbps NIC

 

[Easy Rhino]

Seems like just another product destined for the landfill in 1.5 years.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Nice little fit-in-pocket server box or firewall.

 

[kondamin]

Seems like just another product destined for the landfill in 1.5 years.

Why? something lacking from the n100 that is going to make microsoft no longer support it?

 

[thestryker6]

Hoping next generation brings proper HDMI 2.1 support (ADL-N is only HDMI 2.0 bandwidth) then something similar to this could make a really fantastic HTPC.

 

[Packabowl09]

Why? something lacking from the n100 that is going to make microsoft no longer support it?

More like lack of support from the Manufacturer. Sometimes you need to reinstall Windows, and it's way harder to get up and running if they don't have a product support page with driver downloads.

I bought a mini PC from Minisforum, which is one of the more well-known brands, and it was impossible to download drivers for it from their website. I had to go into their Discord channel to ask around to find out exactly which NIC is used so I could download the driver from the NIC manufacturer. After a couple hours of tracking down each driver, I still had a couple missing system devices in Device Manager.

 

[NoLoihi]

4GiB of RAM? Don’t do it, I’m writing this from my main machine, which, incidentally, has remained on 4GiB. Running Void Linux with Wayfire, so no Desktop Environment, even, and Firefox is constantly driving me insane with its RAM hunger. I have zRAM for swap (swap to compressed memory), and set it up to plenty amounts as well. It’s just … I wish software was better, about seven years ago on Vista I’ve crammed a lot into the same amount of RAM, but, it’s just not really bearable anymore. I guess if you only want to open some webpages, not many, and few of them are, say, YouTube or Instagram (two pages I’ve noticed driving up memory demands), then yes, OK, fine, it’ll run. Other than that, no. The processor is much less of a limit there.

… Besides that: Dual 2.5Gb Ethernet but 802.11ac WiFi!? The whole configuration seems so asinine, I must be missing out on any reason it’d make sense.
People have mentioned using it as a portable FW? Uhh, I guess? Is the faster Ethernet really a requirement there, seeing as but a small fraction of a minority I can envision firewalling anything but towards the Internet? I mean, some people do have very fast lines. Hmm.

 

[kondamin]

More like lack of support from the Manufacturer. Sometimes you need to reinstall Windows, and it's way harder to get up and running if they don't have a product support page with driver downloads.

I bought a mini PC from Minisforum, which is one of the more well-known brands, and it was impossible to download drivers for it from their website. I had to go into their Discord channel to ask around to find out exactly which NIC is used so I could download the driver from the NIC manufacturer. After a couple hours of tracking down each driver, I still had a couple missing system devices in Device Manager.

Ah yes that could be a problem, had the same thing with a sony laptop that didn't bother bringing a touch screen driver to windows 10