Sorry, I missed the action today. I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning and everything snow balled from there. My new Mini-PC from Amazon came and I immediately pulled it apart and imaged the NVME. Then I installed Windows 11 Pro and ran a bunch of benchmarks. After that I installed Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to see how well it would handle that... I am delighted to say that of course it is not quite as smooth as my gaming laptop, but it is pretty darn good. I could probably squeeze a little more performance out of it by changing some of the iGPU settings in the UEFI.
After that I started trying to verify that the NPU (neural processor) was working properly. It is recognized in device manager and I updated the driver. HWinfo (free system monitoring software) is indicate that it is doing something when I run loads that should be using it. I just have not been able to quantify this yet. The benchmarks I have tried are not working well for me. This is one of my primary interests, so I am probably going to have to install some of the software that I hope to use and try to get it working correctly to verify how well this all works.
Oh, no problem! I often am webless for days, will likely be tomorrow (planning to on a day-trip with my family) and in the past, sometimes so tied up with work that I was FR-less for months!
What machine did you get, if I might ask? Most of the deals I’m seeing on Amazon are for machines out of my budget range.
I myself am still hunting for a cheapy-as-possible Win 11 (pref Win 11 Pro) machine for wifey. Really, the most it has to run well is LibreOffice.