KAMRUI AK2 PLUS Mini PC, 16GB RAM

Outstanding Performance: The KAMRUI GK3Pro is a powerhouse in a compact form. With its N5105 processor and 12GB RAM, it handles multitasking with ease, making it perfect for both work and play.

Sleek Design: Its sleek and modern design fits any workspace aesthetic, and the VESA mount option allows for a clean setup without clutter.

Versatile Connectivity: The range of ports, including dual-band WiFi and Bluetooth, offers great connectivity options, ensuring that all peripherals work seamlessly.

Superb Value: For the price, the KAMRUI GK3Pro offers exceptional value. It’s a reliable mini PC that exceeds expectations in performance and quality.

Top-Notch Customer Service: The support folks for the KAMRUI GK3Pro went above and beyond. Their responsiveness, knowledge, and willingness to assist were outstanding. They have helped to resolve my issue even though I am out of warranty, and did so in a prompt and professional manner.

Clear Communication: The support agents communicated clearly, addressing my concerns and providing step-by-step guidance. I felt valued as a customer throughout the process.

Kudos: I highly recommend KAMRUI’s support for anyone using their products.

At first I was skeptical. I’ve had low-budget hardware before and had always found the experience inadequate. But I’ve been nothing but impressed with this cute, tiny little box and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a budget-friendly general-purpose computer. It’s no good for ‘modern’ gaming (which if that’s what you’re looking for, you wouldn’t be looking at these kinds of computers anyway), but for everything else typically done at home it’s perfectly fine.

Boot time: So fast my monitor actually takes longer to turn on than it takes for the computer to be ready to log in.

Gaming performance: About what I expected. Console-grade Unreal Engine titles from as far back as 2015 generally run unacceptably badly, requiring reduction to minimum detail levels at low resolution to reach even a minimum standard of playable. But as a *kids* gaming device? Sure. Minecraft requires a bit of tweaking to get it to run well (‘Fancy’ graphics, reduce resolution to 900p, 3×3 textures and 8 chunk render/simulate distance) but it is workable and looks fine. Even the most demanding Roblox experiences are reasonably playable at medium detail levels (automatic is fine). Mobile-class games like various Tower Defense games, including ones with low-detail 3D graphics, run perfectly well. Load times are really quick except in Minecraft.

Web browsing: Everything is fast and responsive enough that your internet connection is likely to be the sole frustrating thing about it (oh and btw the WiFi chip/antenna is of pretty decent quality so it’s your ISP that will be the pain, not the box itself). Even the text editors with built-in grammar checking will be 100% responsive — a surprise given that this was a significant pain point in the last low-budget computer I got (I had to disable grammar checking in order to keep it responsive on previous devices — but not on this one). Endless scrolling and loading of images on social media are as fast as your internet connection will allow, which for me meant scrolling Facebook literally as fast as my mouse wheel could go and not experiencing any noticeable hitches.

(Note: I have a Pi Hole on my network that eats up ads, and ads are always a pain point in internet loading).

For good measure I loaded up YouTube videos in 4 different windows and forced them to 1080p/60 quality mode. All four windows were rendering the video at full resolution and full frame rate with no visible hitching. Stream decoding is fast enough for any kind of video streaming a reasonable person would be doing.

I only did a cursory check of Office productivity capability. For this I found some decently large documents and loaded them with LibreOffice. I didn’t notice any hitching as I scrolled through the documents, edited them and even tossed in some typical use-case spreadsheet calculations. While I can’t say if it’ll be ideal for, say, an accountant or author or artist who will want to use absurdly large sheets with complex calculations or thousand-page drafts with dozens of revisions that the document tracks, or massive Photoshop jobs, I *can* say that if your use case is such that you’re even considering a low-end PC, this one will suit your needs well enough.

Color me impressed. 10 years ago I bought a ‘mid-range’ CPU that all by itself cost more than this box, not counting everything else I had to buy for the PC that CPU went into. This box, for less than the price of that CPU, substantially outperforms it, and does so while being dead silent and consuming no more power than an LED lightbulb. I’m sold.