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Ainol Windows 8.1 Quad Core Mini PC (2GB/32GB, 7000mAh Battery) ~ $126 AU Shipped @ Geekbuying

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Tonight Geekbuying has a deal going for a lot people's favourite brand. The Ainol Mini PC for only $91 US (~$126 AU) shipped using the coupon GETDTZGS

For those unaware, this is a fully fledged mini PC running the full and activated version of Windows 8.1 that is also upgradable to Windows 10. All you need to do is a hookup a mouse, keyboard and screen. This mini PC also includes an inbuilt 7000mAh battery that allows it to work for more than 10 hours and can even be used as a power bank to charge your phone or tablet. Unlike a lot of other mini PCs, the Ainol has an effective fanless cooling system that allows it to stay cool and prevents the CPU from throttling while under heavy load.

Key Specs:

  • Windows 8.1 with Bing (Upgradable to Windows 10)
  • Intel Z3735F Quad Core, up to 1.83GHz CPU
  • 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC Storage (Supports MicroSD up to 128GB, other USB Storage)
  • 7000mAh in-built Battery
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
  • Mini HDMI Port
  • 2x USB 2.0, 1x MicroSD Slot, 1x 3.5mm Earphone Jack
  • 115 x 146 x 14mm, 335g, Aluminium Alloy

Package includes: 1x Mini PC, 1x HDMI Cable, 1x Power Adapter (With AU Adapter), 1x User Manual

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  • [Deactivated] on 22/10/2015 - 21:07
    +4

    Effective fanless cooling system as in like thermal paste?

    • annoynimous on 22/10/2015 - 21:08
      +48

      as in the stuff that comes from Ainol

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 22:32
          +7

          Once they realised how it sounded in English they had to change it to Ainovo for the US market, but it was too late…

        • lead_org on 22/10/2015 - 23:00
          +1

          @Clear: is that Lenovo's chinese brother?

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 23:27

          @lead_org: Lenovo is Chinese, so it could be…

        • jackspratt on 22/10/2015 - 23:42
          +2

          Hmmmm ….. 7 negs. Seems I spoke too soon.

        • Forfiet on 23/10/2015 - 06:29
          +9

          @jackspratt: hmmm, you must be sad about that eh?

        • Click_It on 23/10/2015 - 07:03
          +2

          @Clear:

          I guess they couldn't give an arse about the rest about the rest of the markets

          … I'll let myself out.

        • abadacus on 23/10/2015 - 14:02
          +1

          @jackspratt: way too soon because it's at 38 now.

        • jackspratt on 23/10/2015 - 15:06

          @Forfiet: Highly amused, actually.

        • Forfiet on 23/10/2015 - 15:58

          @jackspratt: that's the spirit :P

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 21:15
      +4

      Thermal pads in combination with the aluminum body.

      Darkscythe would probably be able to tell you more about it. He did a good a review on his site

      • Darkscythe on 22/10/2015 - 22:42
        +4

        Yep, cooling is something the Ainol really nailed. They've effectively used the whole metal body as a heat sink. I hammered it with stress testing apps and it was still way under the chip's threshold. It's a great unit - particularly at that price.

        • bargaino on 23/10/2015 - 02:41

          The Z3735F SoC is very low power, and does not need thermal bonding to the metal body.
          I have a similar device: the RF shield acts as heat sink, and there is very little direct contact between the metal case and the insides.

        • musicinbed69 on 23/10/2015 - 07:06
          +1

          @manic:

          I have the pipo x7.. When you put a thermal pad between it and the bottom of the case, WOW. Soooo much heat can come out of a z3735F. And even after doing that, and the bottom of the device could literally burn you (but only just), it will still very mildly throttle (only seemed to happen in games).

          So even though these are low power, they can and do produce a shitton of heat if you let them. Sure you can conduct it to something on the inside of the case, but the heat will build up if it cant escape fast enough.

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 08:28

          @musicinbed69: Good thing that issue was fixed in the X7 Pro, X8 and X9. The Ainol is probably the best one for cooling without a fan.

        • musicinbed69 on 23/10/2015 - 08:30

          Hi darkscythe,

          I have ordered this already, cuz mini pc's rool, but I am worried about where the heat actually goes.
          these photos didn't really help much https://imgur.com/a/GoexL

          Can you better explain how they're cooling the device? The heat isn't going into the lithium ion batteries I hope….. But it looks like they put the motherboard ontop of the battery!??. That metal adhesive on the top couldn't possibly be providing much of anything in the cooling as it isn't touching the top of the case.

          Are there hidden thermal pads built into the top shell, padding to the top of the motherboard, to draw the heat to the top of the case? I sure hope so. Otherwise, that kind of heat with those batteries, IDK, it worries me. Does it have a way of escaping without going through the batteries?
          Do chinese manufacturers take those kind of safety things into consideration?

        • musicinbed69 on 23/10/2015 - 08:32

          @Clear:

          Could you give me some information on where the heat goes with the ainol? https://imgur.com/a/GoexL

          I'm a bit confused as to what (if anything) blocks heat from going into the lithium-ion batteries, and where the thermal pads are actually located because I can't see any on teardown photos. Thx

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 08:34

          @musicinbed69: Could actually be mistaken about the thermal pads, but the heat is cooled through the aluminum case.

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 09:01

          @musicinbed69: Have a look at this article. Says it's using a "Sticky-back heat-spreader" and is visible in the pictures you linked. Makes sense.

        • musicinbed69 on 23/10/2015 - 10:11

          @Clear:

          hmm okay, It seems like the heatspeader at one end is heightened with a sponge to make close contact with the top of the case. That's rather nifty. I hope it works well.

  • Merlict on 22/10/2015 - 21:14
    +3

    Seems like a bit of a weird product. Has a battery but needs a powered monitor + peripheral cords anyway?

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 21:16
      +3

      Makes it more portable. I guess you could call it a smart power bank.

    • nmartin84 on 22/10/2015 - 21:32
      +4

      I imagine the purpose is that you can take it with you on holidays and plug it into the television in your hotel, or take it into meeting rooms at work and plug it into the projector/tv, etc.

    • Darkscythe on 22/10/2015 - 22:45
      +3

      I've found the inbuilt battery handy as a UPS. When the power cuts out, it'll keep running for ages. Saved my bacon a few times.

      • Epyc on 22/10/2015 - 22:56
        +4

        ^ Someone who gets it :)

    • mycosys on 04/11/2015 - 17:58
      -1

      has it occurred to you that it makes a great little headless file or media server, just throw on a USB HDD/SSD
      Also potentially VERY handy to be able to put it to sleep and take it from place to place, ie plug it in at uni, then take it home and keep working

  • krisspy on 22/10/2015 - 21:15
    +4

    might aswell get something like a chuwi vi8 for around the same price, same specs except you get a tablet to boot

    • mycosys on 04/11/2015 - 18:00

      what if you dont want a tablet, you want a media PC that conveniently and discretely mounts to the back of your monitor, or you want a computer you can pocket and take to a uni lab for instance?

  • dynamike on 22/10/2015 - 21:17

    Looks like a great Plex media server.

    • dynamike on 23/10/2015 - 12:04
      +1

      no Ethernet connection so probably not the best media server after all

      • mycosys on 04/11/2015 - 18:02

        480mbit usb-ethernet adapter - should work fine.

        • dynamike on 06/11/2015 - 14:10

          Only has USB 2.0 so there's your bottleneck

        • mycosys on 06/11/2015 - 22:43

          @dynamike:
          which would be why i said 480Mbit - the speed of USB 2.0

  • 31mop on 22/10/2015 - 21:19

    How do they compare to those asus compute sticks for around $170?

    • Darkscythe on 22/10/2015 - 22:46

      Pretty much the same. All of these budget mini PCs have essentially identical specs.

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 23:18

      In addition to what Darkscythe said, this one is obviously in box form and includes an inbuilt battery.

      • Darkscythe on 23/10/2015 - 00:12

        Yep, sorry. Got distracted mid-thought with that one!

      • Vampyr on 23/10/2015 - 07:11
        -2

        So it's Ainol in box form?

  • holisticboy on 22/10/2015 - 21:27
    +6

    I bought one of these in the last deal posted here. Great little machines. For those interested, they stream video, including 1080p quite well without dropping frames (using plex media centre). Furthermore, they even seem to handle Steam home streaming, as I often use mine to play some of my games off my gaming PC in the lounge room. Runs cool, barely gets warm to the touch, and is fairly speedy.

    Only weird thing was the language settings were really inconsistent, with Chinese enabled in some areas, and English in others. This was easily fixed by setting correct region and language. Haven't updated it to Windows 10 yet, should be interesting if this is possible, and the performance benefits/impacts.

    • Duff5000 on 22/10/2015 - 22:20
      +2

      How do you go spacewise?

      My windows folder (windows 8) is over 40GB by itself.

    • Wimma on 22/10/2015 - 23:21

      Interesting to hear about the steam streaming - does it do 1080p ok (over wireless I assume)?
      I'm keen for a little steam box.

    • Mochatroid on 23/10/2015 - 11:45
      +2

      I had a heap of trouble with the language after updating to Windows 10 - it just would not go back to (mostly) English the same way that 8.1 did. I rolled back to 8.1 with no major trouble though. Fantastic little machine, with enough fiddling I got it to run an ad-hoc wireless network on boot so I could VNC to it with my old android phone - x86 mini-PC on the go.

  • Umpani on 22/10/2015 - 21:36
    +5

    Updates to Win 10 fine. Better for it. My 2cents. Agree. Great little device. Just dont expect too much given the specs. Also, do not buy from gearbust.

    • e2015 on 22/10/2015 - 22:36

      I also tried to get one from gearbest, 6 weeks later and it still has not been shipped, so will try again from this place.

  • strangeloops66 on 22/10/2015 - 22:05
    +4

    1 x Power adapter (A right AC Adapter will be sent as your shipping country)

    Dammit! They sent me a left one.

    • zenturio on 05/11/2015 - 16:45

      They sent me the wrong one :(

  • superkieu on 22/10/2015 - 22:18

    this is similar to a nuc PC - a very small barebone computer to play back and stream 1080P content.

    if I am to plug this tiny PC in and leave it on all day, I wanna know how much power it consume?

    • a desktop PC uses about 200-300w,
    • the nuc uses around 50w
    • bargaino on 22/10/2015 - 22:31
      +1

      Those sound like maximum power, not average or idle.
      NUC is less than 10W and Z3735F device less than 5W.

    • Darkscythe on 22/10/2015 - 22:47

      Power consumption stats in my review that @Clear linked above

  • orange123 on 22/10/2015 - 22:29
    +1

    Can this handle popcorn time?

    • bargaino on 22/10/2015 - 22:33

      Overkill for torrenting and media playback. Get an ARM android device for less than half the price.

    • volturee on 22/10/2015 - 22:41

      A chromecast will do popcorn just fine

      • bargaino on 22/10/2015 - 23:44
        +12

        A Pentium-4 will do real popcorn.

    • musicinbed69 on 23/10/2015 - 09:50

      last I checked with my other pc of same cpu, it could only handle if played back in an external player (like vlc).

      Stuttering if using the built-in player. But yes popcorn time works perfectly if u open videos in vlc.

  • gimli on 22/10/2015 - 22:50
    +7

    i came here for the jokes…

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 22:53
      +3

      I almost had a coupon created with your username and something along the lines of…

      • gimli on 22/10/2015 - 22:54

        lol I'll be waiting

        • muncan on 27/10/2015 - 09:08

          Hey Gimli, did you see their logo? ;-P

        • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 27/10/2015 - 14:41

          Wait until you see them tonight… they're not as good as Gimliainol though :(

  • hibijibis on 22/10/2015 - 23:04

    would this be able to handle a 4k file for playback?

  • petestrash on 22/10/2015 - 23:08

    OP Do you have any of the Z3735D version left?

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 22/10/2015 - 23:16
      +1

      Nope. Ainol changed over half way through production and the remaining units were sold out around April.

      • shopaholic32 on 23/10/2015 - 01:19

        Anyone please help confirm if you know this plays MKV or mp4 with 5.1 surround sound using VLC media player Or when you are watching streams from Netflix?

  • ChatCPT on 23/10/2015 - 01:14

    i dont get it - just get a cheap chinese win 8 tablet?

    • iridiumstem on 23/10/2015 - 02:26

      I think this offers slightly more than Windows 8 tablets, for starters it has 2 USB ports and a mini HDMI port.
      It seems to be better with cooling than what I've heard with some of the Chinese tablets, i.e. http://techtablets.com/chuwi-hi8/review/. If you don't need the touchscreen, this doesn't seem that bad in my opinion.

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 10:58

      It's a PC running Windows 8.1, but much smaller.

  • bich.light on 23/10/2015 - 02:22
    +9

    I used to be scared of Ainol.
    But I think I might finally come to enjoy it.

    • mycosys on 04/11/2015 - 18:07

      just ease into it - if you try to force it the experience is just painful. it's a small ainol so good for beginners.

  • meatgasm on 23/10/2015 - 05:28

    Does anybody have any idea how well this does XboxOne game streaming ?

  • Block on 23/10/2015 - 06:13
    +1

    I have one of these and they are a great unit, only downside is the wifi reciever. It need to be close to the wifi modem and no walls between. I had mine next to the TV and laptop and it got 20% of the download speed of them even know they were all the same distance from the modem, in the next room. Extended the modem to the same room and now they all get the same. Being the mini pc got what the TV and laptop had and they stayed the same.
    Other than that great with a wireless remote.

  • PainToad on 23/10/2015 - 08:20

    Rep, do you have express shipping?

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 08:32

      Yes. In the shopping cart select Australia in the drop down menu and click on "Estimate Shipping Costs". That will give you a list of shipping methods and an estimation of their price.

  • mousie on 23/10/2015 - 08:29
    +1

    Op the coupon code is wrong should be? Ainolarse?

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 08:30
      +4

      If TA had asked me, I would have got that or tightainol created.

      • PainToad on 23/10/2015 - 08:37
        +4

        Tightainol only works once but. After the the coupon looseainol must be used.

        • dynamike on 23/10/2015 - 09:30
          +2

          imagine what would happen to that ainol once it got ozbargained…

  • GLO on 23/10/2015 - 09:01

    could this be set up to run Netflix and Hulu etc?

    And any ideas how you could incorporate a remote to run this?

    • MarketingClear @ Geekbuying on 23/10/2015 - 09:08

      According to reviews and previous deals, it runs Netflix HD fine. Hulu and others would run too.

      As for a remote, Logitech Harmony maybe? I've never used one myself, but it does support Windows 8 & 10.

    • JimmyJim on 23/10/2015 - 09:10

      I too am interested in the best way to organize this. I assume the windows 8 app for netflix. Maybe a USB remote?

      • shopaholic32 on 23/10/2015 - 09:41
        +2

        Buy a Logitech K400r, keyboard & wireless mouse; connected via USB.

    • PainToad on 23/10/2015 - 09:14

      If you want Netflix, go with a Nexus Player. Netflix Windows app is designed for mouse use, not remote.

    • Block on 23/10/2015 - 10:17
      +3

      Hi GLO,
      I use this remote on mine and it works well.
      For netflix i just use thier website not an app and tunnelbear to get US content.

      • Peteroz on 23/10/2015 - 13:25

        yeah tunnelbear is great and free!!!

        • GLO on 23/10/2015 - 14:55

          Thanks, having a look now.

          I am using GetFlix for US Netflix and Hulu but my EchoTV seems to have died.

  • DaiShan on 23/10/2015 - 09:21
    +4

    I bought this a few months ago from geek buying. Just as FYI guys, I found the in-built wifi chip to be absolutely rubbish. It only worked within 1m of my router, and struggled entirely from about 4m away. I had to buy a separate wifi adapter dongle. I was pretty disappointed.

    • shopaholic32 on 23/10/2015 - 09:43

      Does it streams 5.1 surround sound from Netflix streaming or play local 5.1 surround sound files?

      • DaiShan on 23/10/2015 - 11:21

        I play sound on my soundbar, which does a good job. I'm not sure if it outputs 'true' 5.1.

        • shopaholic32 on 23/10/2015 - 12:22

          Thanks, you probably cant tell unless you are connected to an Amplifier where a DTS signal etc will show on the AMP.
          Would appreciate if anyone can advice if they have theirs connected to an AMP either on Ainol or Pipo units, as they have similar chipsets just different housing and size. Thanks in advance. Cheers!

    • bargaino on 23/10/2015 - 10:33
      +2

      It only worked within 1m of my router

      That means your antenna is not working - e.g. the tiny connector is not in place, or lead damaged. Could be bad assembly.

      • DaiShan on 23/10/2015 - 11:20
        +1

        That makes sense. Either way, it was a pretty shitty experience/faulty device.

      • he3at on 23/10/2015 - 13:36
        +3

        I had the poor wifi problem also. Resolved it by going into Device Manager > Network Adapters > Realtek RTL8723BS… > Advanced tab. Antenna diversity was set to Disabled. Changed it to Enabled and all was well with the internal wifi.

        • DaiShan on 23/10/2015 - 15:13
          +1

          Awesome! Thanks for the suggestion mate. Can't wait to go home and test this…!

        • x d on 23/10/2015 - 21:58
          +1

          @DaiShan:

          Would love to know if this trick works. I am considering getting a unit.

          Cheers.

  • Thiefsie on 23/10/2015 - 09:44

    If this had an ethernet port it would be the perfect HTPC box for streaming Plex/Kodi as well as Steam…

    I suppose a USB wired LAN port would do the trick.

    Not bad.

    • d3ft on 23/10/2015 - 10:01
      +1

      What is everyone Steam streaming that isn't ruined by the added latency?

      • jonathonsunshine on 23/10/2015 - 23:56
        +1

        I played many hours of Tomb Raider (2013), Witcher 2 and Spider-Man 3….

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