![]() On Ubuntu 20.04.3 there was no audio, neither from HDMI nor when attaching an external speaker or headphones to the 3.5mm audio jack:Īnd the ‘dmesg’ included errors: cl_copy_fw: timeout As a result, the Octane tests were run manually and edited into the final results. This is typically caused by the benchmark driver used by the test not supporting the newest Chrome release and has been encountered before. When running the test with ‘Chrome’ selected it errored with the message ‘The test quit with a non-zero exit status’. Running the benchmarks went smoothly with the exception of the ‘Selenium’ test from the ‘Phoronix Test Suite’. I also capture some basic details of the device for each OS. Prior to benchmarking, I perform all necessary installations and updates to run the latest versions of both OSes. On Ubuntu, I also compile the v5.4 Linux kernel using the default config as a test of performance using a real-world scenario. I also use ‘Phoronix Test Suite’ and benchmark with the same set of tests on both Windows and Ubuntu for comparison purposes. Where possible I review using Windows 11 version 21H2 and Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS and test with a selection of commonly used Windows benchmarks and/or equivalents for Linux together with Thomas Kaiser’s ‘sbc-bench’ which is a small set of different CPU performance tests focusing on server performance when run on Ubuntu. When reviewing mini PCs, I typically look at their performance under both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) and compare them against some of the more recently released mini PCs. Noticeably absent is a VESA mounting bracket and the device itself does not have any mounting screw holes. In the box, you get a power adapter with a cord, an HDMI cable, and a multilingual user manual. 10 Gbit/s):Īnd only the first of the side USB ports was 3.0 (USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 i.e. Internally there is soldered-on 8GB DDR4 2933MHz memory operating in dual-channel:Īnd a soldered-on Intel Wireless-AC 3165 chip together with an M.2 2242 SATA drive (the review model included a 256GB Netac drive complete with Windows 10 Pro installed) and is accessed by removing the front and rear panels and then sliding out the motherboard from the aluminum case:Īnd lists the three USB ports as 3.0 so I tested them using a Samsung 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD housed in an ‘USB to M.2 NVMe adapter’ (ORICO M2PAC3-G20 M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure) which showed that the rear and second of the side USB ports were actually 3.1 (USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 i.e. ![]() ![]() Finally, the right side includes a full-sized SD card slot which is underneath a hot air exhaust vent, a USB 3.0 port, a further USB 3.1 port, and the power button. The left side includes a VGA port and an air intake vent. The rear panel includes the power jack, a USB 3.1 port, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a reset CMOS pinhole. The front panel is bereft of anything save a pinhole which is illuminated blue when the device is powered on. As an actively cooled mini PC, it uses Intel’s 10 nm Jasper Lake N5105 processor which is a quad-core 4-thread 2.00 GHz Celeron processor boosting to 2.90 GHz with Intel’s UHD Graphics. ![]() The Aero 2 Pro physically consists of a 120 x 120 x 23mm (4.72 x 4.72 x 0.91 inches) rectangular metal case with inset front and back plastic panels. Aerofara kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu. Aerofara’s Aero 2 Pro is an Intel Jasper Lake mini PC and one of the very few new mini PCs to include a VGA port.
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