Did this impromptu, very amateurish video review last night. I could get better if I did these more often. But, as many of you know videos are not my thing. But, maybe I should make more of an effort.
I have now had this ‘Geekom IT12’ for exactly a week. Longest I have kept a Mini PC to-date. The fan noise was what bothered me the most. But, as you can see from this review I pushed the Mini PC back … further away from me … and put it on some ‘insulation’. It has helped.
This is my THIRD mini PC — following the ‘Minisforum UN1265‘ & ‘Beelink SER6 Max‘. I have now had it for 3.5-days; the LONGEST so far. It works — which is more than what the Minisforum did. So, that is good.
So far, so good — to speak. I am not over the moon, but it works.
Worked out of the box. That was a relief. The HDMI ports supported my (mandatory) two monitor system. Glad about that.
Came with Windows 11 Pro 22H2. That wasn’t bad. Using the ‘Microsoft Download Assistant‘ I was able to quickly and relatively painlessly update it to 23H2. That was GOOD. Now I am smack up to-date.
I had read/heard that the fan was noisy. NO KIDDING. Sounds like a jet trying to take off. But, as with most things, you get used to it. I am willing to live with it.
What was UNACCEPTABLE was the SLEEP setting.
Initially the NOISY fan would NOT turn off when you put the Geekom into SLEEP. That was annoying as hell.
Had to play around with MULTIPLE SETTINGS, over a 4 hour period, to finally get a semi-satisfactory solution. Not sure whether it is still fully fixed.
So, that is where we are. Better than the last two, but by no means perfect. Alas.
