Heavy system but it did get a 353 score uh the graphic score you can see here is 308 but the CPU score is 2286 now when it ran it was extremely choppy cuz this is a really graphics intensive test but it was able to continually run it which tells you that the graphics card and the CPU in here allows it to actually do all the commands and all the high-end graphics processing that it needs to without crashing but it doesn't run it quickly so that's just again something to keep in mind like I said I have the 16 gig version of this machine it's currently using 4.2 of that and the memory speed is 2667 MHz it does support Bluetooth 4.2 as well as 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and the ethernet port on the back is a gigabit Ethernet port so 1,000 megabits per second.

So I'm just going to do a couple things here on the screen so you can see exactly how fast the machine is right now I'm loading up Chrome and I'm going to go ahead and go to YouTube so you can see kind of scrolling through the site um there are a couple small tiny delays but I mean that sort of happens on every computer that I've used. Let's go ahead and and pick a 4K video off here even though this particular monitor that I'm using right now is not 4K I do have the ability to pop up the quality here and change that to a 4K stream so that you can see exactly how fast and how capable of this is of running 4K video.

So I'm going to go ahead and full screen this and you can see that even though this like I said this screen is only a 1080p screen it's still having to download and process that 4K signal and it handles it like a champ. So again if you're going to use this for like a home media server to watch videos on your television or on a portable monitor or something like that this will work just great I'm actually going to go ahead and hook this up to my 4K TV downstairs I'll overlay a little bit of b-roll here so you can see how well it runs.

And I also downloaded a 4K video here I'm going to use just the standard builtin Windows Media Player so this is actually a 4K video file that I downloaded that's running directly off the machine so you're not pulling this down off the network it's actually having to process it through the CPU and GPU in order to play it in real time. I think that's really telling because a lot of machines you may use when opening like a 4K fullsize video will start to chug and you'll definitely notice the difference but this is handling it like a champ.

And so again just to run over a couple of these specs so that you have an idea of what is available in this box it does have the Intel Alder Lake processor as I mentioned, Intel UHD Graphics. It comes in 8GB or a 16GB those are both DDR4 memory specs. It's capable of doing 4K60HZ Wi-Fi 5 Bluetooth 4.2 and dual HDMI 2.0 4K 60HZ ports in the back.

I think that's important to know as I showed you earlier it does have two of the HDMI ports in the back that allow you to run dual monitors at 4K if you want to. So in general would I recommend this Mini PC? I would say absolutely. I've used more expensive mini PCS and I've used cheaper mini PCS and what I found is that this one in particular hits kind of that sweet spot between price and performance at about $150 for the 8GB memory version and around $200 bucks for the 16GB version.

I don't think you can go wrong if you're looking for something that you can move around for a media server for a home server for Office business computering all sorts of stuff. So hopefully this helped you out in making some sort of decision. If it did give me a like give me a subscribe I'd love to see you back but until next time this is Carl from techville goodies and I'm out.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everybody this is Carl from Tech goodies and today we are looking at the ak1 plus Mini PC now I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for mini PCS I just think they're so cool the issue is that there's so many out there on the market it's really difficult to know what you need to get in order to fulfill whatever requirements or needs that you want and to make sure it's going to work for a long time and work well so that's why we're taking a look at this one here because it's not a super high-end Mini PC but it's also not one of the super low-end mini PCS you can get mini PCS that are so low-end that honestly they're almost unusable but not this one here so here is the Mini PC itself okay so this is the a1+ and if you look on the back here you have a couple of different options you have a usba port this is a 2.0 you have two hdmis they support up to 4K resolution a hardwired ethernet port and the power port here and if you look on the side here you have two usba 3.0 ports and one usba 2.0 Port okay so some of the higher higher-end mini PCS nowadays will be very USBC focused which I think is fine but that really drives the price up this is a very affordable mini PC that you can use for your business or office needs emulation Home Server or even a media server you can hook this up to your TV TV and then you have yourself a full Media Center where you can use the computer and watch videos and I also thought it looked pretty nice because it has this little bit of RGB glow around the outside here that actually shows some of the activity that's going on right now I don't have it turned on or hooked up but you'll see that in a minute and the other thing I think is very important to know about this is the expandability but when you're taking a look at this um you have an 8 GB memory and a 16 GB memory version I have the 16 GB memory version but the 8 GB also will work quite fine especially if you're using it just for your daily activities web browsing spreadsheets even for a media server that's going to work just fine the other interesting thing about this Mini PC is the fact that it has this bottom part here so this bottom part has two switches and then the bottom pops off so as you can see on the bottom here there is a USBC Port that actually plugs in to the bottom of the machine what that allows you to do is take the bottom portion of this Mini PC take out the two small screws that are located on the bottom and inside here you have the ability to put in an SSD drive so if you want to increase the storage on your PC this particular one comes with 256 GB of storage if the 8 GB memory version and 512 GB of storage for the 16 GB version so if you want to add a terabyte 2 terab SSD drive to this you can do so all you would have to do is take a SSD drive like this and simply slide it in make sure it plugs into the port over here shut it back up put it on the bottom of the machine and then you have that extra storage that you need especially if you're using it as something like a media storage or a network connected Home Server you can add that extra storage and it is upgradeable so in order to power it you basically have a standard power brick here with a normal Barrel plug on the end here so I'm going to plug it in here and get it working so we can check out some of the specs and some of the benchmarks and when you're hooking up to an external monitor the cool thing about this is that you don't need any sort of proprietary cables you just need a standard HDMI to HDMI cable if you are using it for a home media server you will want to make sure that your HDMI cable supports 4K if that's what you want to do some of the HDMI cables out there don't support 4K so you want to make sure that you have a 4K UHD supporting cable all right I'm going to use my Proto Arc portable keyboard and mouse for this and I'm going to go ahead and open up OBS Studio that's something that allows me to sort of capture the screen and show you some of the things in a little bit of closer detail rather than from the overhead camera and one of the things I do like about OBS is if you look in the bottom right corner here it kind of shows you the CPU usage I've had some older computers in the past that I've used for OBS and it's really telling whether or not you're able to have a PC that can kind of keep up with what you're doing now this is not a gaming PC this does not have like an Nvidia C in it it does have an igpu so it's basically a chip that's on the motherboard that allows for the pass through of the video signal this particular one has Intel UHD Graphics now that's going to give you the ability to play your videos do YouTube videos run everything just fine but you're not really going to get a lot of gaming support out of this but when I start recording if you look at the CPU usage down here while I'm recording it is only using about 4.2 maybe 5% of your CPU now if you go into t manager you can take a look at the performance side of this the CPU does have standard usage like right now it's using about 38% but that's just the system plus OBS running at the same time plus everything else that's going on so speaking of the CPU this has an Intel 12th generation Alder Lake n95 GPU which goes up to 3.4 GHz I have a couple benchmarks that I've run here that I'll show you real quickly uh when it comes to geekbench geek bench score single core score 1207 and multicore score is 242 if you take a look at the geekbench site you can use those numbers to compare to other machines that you might be familiar with to know whether or not this is going to work for you and I also did run the 3D Mark score and this is obviously going to be pretty low because it's not a 3D game Heavy system but it did get a 353 score uh the graphic score you can see here is 308 but the CPU score is 2286 now when it ran it was extremely choppy cuz this is a really Graphics intensive test but it was able to continually run it which tells you that the graphics card and the CPU in here allows it to actually do all the commands and all the high-end Graphics processing that it needs to without crashing but it doesn't run it quickly so that's just again something to keep in mind like I said I have the 16 gig version of this machine it's currently using 4.2 of that and the memory speed is 2667 MHz it does support Bluetooth 4.2 as well well as 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and the ethernet port on the back is a gigabit Ethernet port so 1,000 megabits per second so I'm just going to do a couple things here on the screen so you can see exactly how uh fast the machine is right now I'm loading up Chrome and I'm going to go ahead and go to YouTube so you can see kind of scrolling through the site um there are a couple of small tiny delays but I mean that sort of happens on every computer that I've used let's go ahead and and pick a 4K video off here even though this particular monitor that I'm using right now is not 4K I do have the ability to pop up the quality here and change that to a 4K stream so that you can see exactly how fast and how capable of this is of running 4K video so I'm going to go ahead and full screen this and you can see that even though this like I said this screen is only a 1080p screen it's still having to download and process that 4K signal and it handles it like a champ so again if you're going to use this for like a home media server to watch videos on your television or on a portable monitor or something like that this will work just great I'm actually going to go ahead and hook this up to my 4K TV downstairs I'll overlay a little bit of b-roll here so you can see how well it runs and I also downloaded a 4K video here I'm going to use just the standard builtin Windows Media Player so this is actually a 4K video file that I downloaded that's running directly off the machine so you're not pulling this down off the network it's actually having to process it through the CPU and GPU in order to play it in real time I think that's really telling because a lot of machines you may use when opening like a 4K fullsize video will start to chug and you'll definitely notice the difference but this is handling it like a champ and so again just to run over a couple of these specs so that you have an idea of what is available in this box it does have the Intel Alder Lake and 95 processor like I mentioned Intel UHD Graphics it does come in 8 gbt or a 16 gbt those are both ddr4 memory specs it is capable of doing 4K 60 HZ Wi-Fi 5 Bluetooth 4.2 and dual HDMI 2.0 4K 60 HZ ports in the back I think that's important to know as as I show showed you earlier it does have two of the HDMI ports in the back that allow you to run dual monitors at 4K if you want to so in general would I recommend this Mini PC I would say absolutely I've used more expensive mini PCS and I've used cheaper mini PCS and what I found is that this one in particular hits kind of that sweet spot between price and performance at about 150 for the 8 GB memory version and around 200 bucks for the 16 GB version I don't think you can go wrong if you're looking for something that you can move around for a media server for a home server for Office business computering all sorts of stuff so hopefully this helped you out in making some sort of decision if it did give me a like give me a subscribe I'd love to see you back but until next time this is Carl from techville goodies and I'm outwhat's up everybody this is Carl from Tech goodies and today we are looking at the ak1 plus Mini PC now I have a bit of a soft spot in my heart for mini PCS I just think they're so cool the issue is that there's so many out there on the market it's really difficult to know what you need to get in order to fulfill whatever requirements or needs that you want and to make sure it's going to work for a long time and work well so that's why we're taking a look at this one here because it's not a super high-end Mini PC but it's also not one of the super low-end mini PCS you can get mini PCS that are so low-end that honestly they're almost unusable but not this one here so here is the Mini PC itself okay so this is the a1+ and if you look on the back here you have a couple of different options you have a usba port this is a 2.0 you have two hdmis they support up to 4K resolution a hardwired ethernet port and the power port here and if you look on the side here you have two usba 3.0 ports and one usba 2.0 Port okay so some of the higher higher-end mini PCS nowadays will be very USBC focused which I think is fine but that really drives the price up this is a very affordable mini PC that you can use for your business or office needs emulation Home Server or even a media server you can hook this up to your TV TV and then you have yourself a full Media Center where you can use the computer and watch videos and I also thought it looked pretty nice because it has this little bit of RGB glow around the outside here that actually shows some of the activity that's going on right now I don't have it turned on or hooked up but you'll see that in a minute and the other thing I think is very important to know about this is the expandability but when you're taking a look at this um you have an 8 GB memory and a 16 GB memory version I have the 16 GB memory version but the 8 GB also will work quite fine especially if you're using it just for your daily activities web browsing spreadsheets even for a media server that's going to work just fine the other interesting thing about this Mini PC is the fact that it has this bottom part here so this bottom part has two switches and then the bottom pops off so as you can see on the bottom here there is a USBC Port that actually plugs in to the bottom of the machine what that allows you to do is take the bottom portion of this Mini PC take out the two small screws that are located on the bottom and inside here you have the ability to put in an SSD drive so if you want to increase the storage on your PC this particular one comes with 256 GB of storage if the 8 GB memory version and 512 GB of storage for the 16 GB version so if you want to add a terabyte 2 terab SSD drive to this you can do so all you would have to do is take a SSD drive like this and simply slide it in make sure it plugs into the port over here shut it back up put it on the bottom of the machine and then you have that extra storage that you need especially if you're using it as something like a media storage or a network connected Home Server you can add that extra storage and it is upgradeable so in order to power it you basically have a standard power brick here with a normal Barrel plug on the end here so I'm going to plug it in here and get it working so we can check out some of the specs and some of the benchmarks and when you're hooking up to an external monitor the cool thing about this is that you don't need any sort of proprietary cables you just need a standard HDMI to HDMI cable if you are using it for a home media server you will want to make sure that your HDMI cable supports 4K if that's what you want to do some of the HDMI cables out there don't support 4K so you want to make sure that you have a 4K UHD supporting cable all right I'm going to use my Proto Arc portable keyboard and mouse for this and I'm going to go ahead and open up OBS Studio that's something that allows me to sort of capture the screen and show you some of the things in a little bit of closer detail rather than from the overhead camera and one of the things I do like about OBS is if you look in the bottom right corner here it kind of shows you the CPU usage I've had some older computers in the past that I've used for OBS and it's really telling whether or not you're able to have a PC that can kind of keep up with what you're doing now this is not a gaming PC this does not have like an Nvidia C in it it does have an igpu so it's basically a chip that's on the motherboard that allows for the pass through of the video signal this particular one has Intel UHD Graphics now that's going to give you the ability to play your videos do YouTube videos run everything just fine but you're not really going to get a lot of gaming support out of this but when I start recording if you look at the CPU usage down here while I'm recording it is only using about 4.2 maybe 5% of your CPU now if you go into t manager you can take a look at the performance side of this the CPU does have standard usage like right now it's using about 38% but that's just the system plus OBS running at the same time plus everything else that's going on so speaking of the CPU this has an Intel 12th generation Alder Lake n95 GPU which goes up to 3.4 GHz I have a couple benchmarks that I've run here that I'll show you real quickly uh when it comes to geekbench geek bench score single core score 1207 and multicore score is 242 if you take a look at the geekbench site you can use those numbers to compare to other machines that you might be familiar with to know whether or not this is going to work for you and I also did run the 3D Mark score and this is obviously going to be pretty low because it's not a 3D game Heavy system but it did get a 353 score uh the graphic score you can see here is 308 but the CPU score is 2286 now when it ran it was extremely choppy cuz this is a really Graphics intensive test but it was able to continually run it which tells you that the graphics card and the CPU in here allows it to actually do all the commands and all the high-end Graphics processing that it needs to without crashing but it doesn't run it quickly so that's just again something to keep in mind like I said I have the 16 gig version of this machine it's currently using 4.2 of that and the memory speed is 2667 MHz it does support Bluetooth 4.2 as well well as 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi and the ethernet port on the back is a gigabit Ethernet port so 1,000 megabits per second so I'm just going to do a couple things here on the screen so you can see exactly how uh fast the machine is right now I'm loading up Chrome and I'm going to go ahead and go to YouTube so you can see kind of scrolling through the site um there are a couple of small tiny delays but I mean that sort of happens on every computer that I've used let's go ahead and and pick a 4K video off here even though this particular monitor that I'm using right now is not 4K I do have the ability to pop up the quality here and change that to a 4K stream so that you can see exactly how fast and how capable of this is of running 4K video so I'm going to go ahead and full screen this and you can see that even though this like I said this screen is only a 1080p screen it's still having to download and process that 4K signal and it handles it like a champ so again if you're going to use this for like a home media server to watch videos on your television or on a portable monitor or something like that this will work just great I'm actually going to go ahead and hook this up to my 4K TV downstairs I'll overlay a little bit of b-roll here so you can see how well it runs and I also downloaded a 4K video here I'm going to use just the standard builtin Windows Media Player so this is actually a 4K video file that I downloaded that's running directly off the machine so you're not pulling this down off the network it's actually having to process it through the CPU and GPU in order to play it in real time I think that's really telling because a lot of machines you may use when opening like a 4K fullsize video will start to chug and you'll definitely notice the difference but this is handling it like a champ and so again just to run over a couple of these specs so that you have an idea of what is available in this box it does have the Intel Alder Lake and 95 processor like I mentioned Intel UHD Graphics it does come in 8 gbt or a 16 gbt those are both ddr4 memory specs it is capable of doing 4K 60 HZ Wi-Fi 5 Bluetooth 4.2 and dual HDMI 2.0 4K 60 HZ ports in the back I think that's important to know as as I show showed you earlier it does have two of the HDMI ports in the back that allow you to run dual monitors at 4K if you want to so in general would I recommend this Mini PC I would say absolutely I've used more expensive mini PCS and I've used cheaper mini PCS and what I found is that this one in particular hits kind of that sweet spot between price and performance at about 150 for the 8 GB memory version and around 200 bucks for the 16 GB version I don't think you can go wrong if you're looking for something that you can move around for a media server for a home server for Office business computering all sorts of stuff so hopefully this helped you out in making some sort of decision if it did give me a like give me a subscribe I'd love to see you back but until next time this is Carl from techville goodies and I'm out