Ainol
Mini PC
The
Ainol Mini PC is made from thick, non-bendable black aluminum with the only
exception to this being the front and rear panels which house the mini PCs
ports and slots. The device is very well made and looks really nice, being
perfectly suitable for living-room use right next to your television. At only
14.5 mm it is very thin and the remaining dimensions of 150 x 114 mm are pretty
slim as well. The weight is pretty high at 351 gram though. The front of the mini
PC features 2 USB 2.0 host ports, a status LED and the on / off switch. The
rear offers an OTG port, a micro SD card reader, a mini HDMI port and a 3.5mm
headphone jack as well as the DC-in port. Rather strange are the left and right
sides which at the first look feature cooling vents, but those are actually just
printed on there. Cooling isn’t much of an issue though, but more about that
later.
The
Ainol Mini PC, like most of its competitors, is based on x86 tablet hardware.
This means we have an Intel SoC going on there, which is the Intel Atom Z3735F.
This chipset offers four cores with a base-clock of 1.33 GHz and can go up to
1.86 GHz in turbo-boost mode. This chipset is combined with the usual 2 GB of
LPDDR3 RAM and 32 GB of EMMC memory.
The
Ainol Mini PC comes with a legal and fully activated copy of Windows 8.1 with
Bing which by the way is eligible for a free upgrade to Windows 10 which will
be released on July 29. It also comes with a free 1-year Office 365 personal
subscription, which includes Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, One Note and
Outlook as well as free 1 TB OneDrive storage.
The
operating system doesn’t come with any pre-installed bloatware and thus is
naked like Microsoft wanted it to be. For you this means that you get plenty of
free memory with the Ainol Mini PC which is about 25 GB. In case that isn’t
enough for all your files you can of course use micro SD cards of any size to
expand the memory.
The
Ainol Mini PC promises to be a power bank and a mini PC but in reality just is
a mini PC that is able to run independently from a power socket thanks to its
integrated battery. It’s space saving, silent and stays cool. Perfect for both
the office and the living room.
