MeLE Fanless Mini PC Intel Celeron J4125 series Quad Core

I was skeptical that this would be useful after buying and returning a previous mini PC (which wasn’t that small and had a loud blower fan) that just didn’t perform with a touch screen monitor that I had kicking around. Thank you Amazon for no hassle returns.

I mounted the spare monitor on the wall and stashed away the mini PC. This little computer is great for a spare PC to use to control smart home modules and look up things on the internet.

It feels like a quality piece of equipment. Aluminum casing in a small footprint. No fan, so absolutely silent. Doesn’t draw much power. It has lots of ports for add ons, 4 USB 3.0 ports, 2 HDMI ports, an Ethernet port and an audio out port.

I set it up with the included Windows 11 Pro and then looked at the manual, and was very impressed to find that it has an M.2 slot for an NVME drive. I put a very cheap old 1TB SSD in it, and it recognized it immediately and it works great. I thought I’d have a problem installing and activating Windows on the new SSD, but it automatically activated Windows with no work required on my part trying to activate, and it left the existing MMC as a separate partition that you can choose when the computer boots up.

I’m happy with this mini PC for what I want it to do, although I don’t expect it to do any hard core gaming or heavy work, it is perfect for what I want it to do.

I recommend this product.

Mini pc utilis sur un tlescope pour piloter un setup de prise de vue en ciel profond !
taille mini et poids parfait ! puissance et efficacit au rendez vous

I am using this exclusively for streaming purposes through my television and for that it is a dream compared to my old laptop. I can’t really speak to the computer usage as I don’t use it for anything personal but I will say it is very annoying having to log in to Windows 11 every time I boot up.

Up to now, that is the best small size PC able to be upgraded to Windows 11 I have found.

A well featured silent fanless PC with Windows 11 for 100? Wot’s not to like. Astonishing value – great piece of kit.

I bought this mini PC for my grandma to replace her 15 year old laptop. She is very happy that it runs Windows and all her games smoothly. I am personally impressed at how inexpensive this is for the performance. Only issue is with the HDMI audio not working properly with games on fullscreen, but at least there’s a headphone jack so you can plug in speakers which solves the problem.

I never thought that a tiny computer could be so good it takes no room up it works well got windows 10 no good for games but anything else it works very well and I would recommend it to any one.

It’s tiny. It’s completely silent. It’s a good performer given the limitations of the power. Boot time is a few seconds but I’ve found shutdown is a bit slow. I got this to basically replace the hopeless built-in web browser of my smart TV. Does a great job of that.

I have an unusual situation, I am British, I work in Saudi Arabia and I live in Thailand. I like desktop computers, not a fan of laptops. I was looking for something I could do some office work with, watch some YouTube or Netflix, check my emails etc. Basic computer stuff, but something I could ferry between countries with minimum hassle. This is it. Love it. Fired up straight away, usual computer pre-amble and some updates and I’m away. Connected it to a Huawei Mateview GT34 and it did all the setup automatically. Performed flawlessly. Might upgrade the SSD to 2TB (it can take a 4TB but they are still a bit expensive). Suits my needs and is tiny – my Samsung S21 is probably heavier. It certainly is for a niche target audience (of which I am one) so might not suit all. If it does suit you then this is a quality product and no mistake.

Wer den Mini PC jetzt kauft und auf Windows 11 updaten will, sollte keine Update fahren sondern Windows 11 neu installieren. Das Update dauert ca. 3,5 Stunden, das initiale Setup war dagegen schnell erledigt.
Der USB-C Anschluss ist nur eine Buchse, weder das Netzteil noch der Anschluss wissen etwas von USB-C oder USB-PD. Man kann spter kein Standard USB-C/PD Netzteil verwenden, warum hat man hier gemurkst?
Wake on Lan funktioniert bei mir nicht – Exemplar Fehler?
Die Leistung ist fr die CPU und Speicher hervorragend. Der Energieverbrauch unter Windows (idle) 3,2 Watt und unter debian 11 (idle) 2,8 Watt.
Fr debian braucht man “non-free” Firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree firmware-realtek firmware-iwlwifi) Das Setup luft aber auch erstmal ohne diese durch.

Bought this to replace an old and slow like me laptop and it works great so far. I added a 1TB SSD chip and a VESA mounting plate so that I can put this on the back of the TV.

So far – so good, no problems yet.

I have been extremely happy with this little guy. Works flawlessly and produces very little heat. And, of course, with no fan, it makes no noise. For everyday web surfing, spreadsheets, etc. this little computer will not disappoint. It has more than enough power from the USB ports to support external hard drives etc.
Not the most powerful computer I have ever known, but for the money, this can’t be beat.

Ok, so if you like Windows this is a fine little box, however if you prefer a proper OS then grab a usb stick, download Fedora 35 live image, insert the USB stick in the USB port, fire up the machine and hit delete a couple of times. This will take you to the BIOS, in the BIOS navigate to boot options and replace windows with USB at the top of the boot order. The machine will boot from the USB device, select run Fedora Live and the little box will boot from the USB stick straight into Fedora 35. Now I dont suggest you wipe out the Windows install, so you can run Fedora straight from the USB stick or install an M2 NVME SSD, up to 2TB drives are supported. There are some nice Western Digital fast SSD M2 NVME drives available on Amazon, I went for a 500GB drive as it seemed to provide the best value for money. Once installed (there are plenty of vids on youtube to help you here) you can install Fedora straight to the M2 drive and dont forget to change your boot order in the BIOS. In terms of supported drivers everything worked fine on first boot with Fedora 35, wireless was faultless and sound worked like a dream, power management was superb as well. Everything you need for a Linux desktop. I have not tried 4K yet but I hope this helps. Its a great little system for the money.

This unit is surprisingly small. It is Windows 11 ready with the required TPM fitted and enabled.
If you don’t need the option to expand RAM or SSD and want a totally silent and discreet PC then this is a great choice. There is a small price premium for the compact design but I think it is well worth it. The case of the unit runs hot under load which is not surprising as the case is the heatsink for the unit.
Amazon wants a game rating for this item. I don’t do gaming and would not choose a Celeron PC for gaming.
I’m using this as a Home Cinema PC, it has no problem playing my high bitrate 4k home movies.
Would definitely buy the same model should I need another.

Decent quality Streaming when not using vpn. As soon as vpn is turned on however video becomes choppy and unwatchable. Are there any upgrades I can make to improve this?

Absolutamente ningn problema ni con el sistema operativo ni con las aplicaciones que he instalado. Lo uso para controlar un telescopio por escritorio remoto y cumple perfectamente. Optimizando el sistema operativo puedes conseguir un consumo de cpu sostenido del 5%. Eso si, no se le puede pedir capacidad grfica o de clculo.
Aunque no se dice, incorpora una placa para montaje vesa.

Quitara media estrella por la alimentacin. Con 2 Amperios no se puede suministrar mucha energa a los puertos usb.

This little computer started up beautifully out of the box. After a few days its wasn’t working. It seemed to be on endless boot cycle. As I liked it so much I decided to work out the problem.

In short: The Intel display adapter (Intel(R) UHD Graphics 600) was incompatible with my monitor when using the Generic PNP Monitor Driver consistantly caused Windows to crash so quickly it would not even restart in recovery mode. I had to remove the Intel Display adapter driver, run on the basic Microsoft one, update the monitor driver from the Dell website and then update the Display Adapter driver.

So if it looks like the Quiter2 won’t load Windows after your Windows updates are installed, try a different monitor, if you don’t have one, run it on your TV. Once its running, its not hard to sort out the driver issue. I took a longer route than that and its in the video

Tech support was fantastic. I’ve never seen as good. Every email was responded to within a very short time with good recommendations. It turned out to be a very simple fix that was hard to work out.

Now I have two screens up and running.

Ho acquistato questo Mini Pc in quanto fanless, che fosse grande quanto un pacchetto di sigarette non mi interessava, ma un vanto tecnologico avere un processore abbastanza potente per lavori Office in cos poco spazio (ho liberato una scrivania intera…). Mi interessava l’assenza di rumore, ed eccezionale questo mini pc, molto reattivo, silenzioso ovviamente in quanto fanless, anche se scalda un p l’involucro. Sono molto soddisfatto dell’acquisto ma non “assolutamente” soddisfatto in quanto, data la dimensione del pc, e la staffetta vesa in dotazione, pu essere installato dietro al monitor, in modo da scomparire proprio dalla scrivania, ma ho scoperto che il bios non contempla l’accensione da tastiera, sia a cavo che wireless, come mi ha confermato l’assistenza tecnica subito contattata. Questo un vero peccato in quanto, collocato dietro al monitor, staffato al muro, per accenderlo devo tirare fuori il monitor e cercare il pulsantino. Cosa abbastanza scomoda, quando altri minipc che uso, contemplano l’accensione da tastiera anche wireless. Si consiglia vivamente il produttore di provvedere al prossimo aggiornamento di Bios ed allora il pc diventa superlativo.

I’ve bought a fanless Atom compute stick from Mele before, years ago. From China. So I felt I could trust their design/product.

I’ve only had this a few days … but as I was confused from reviews and product descriptions about what SSD it can take, I wanted to say here I can use a 2TB NVMe drive … the socket’s keyed for NVMe … not SATA. On the model I bought anyhow.

I just wanted a “back-up” + “ancillary” machine. I tend to RDP Virtual machines running on slightly heftier though mobile-CPU based servers … I like small powerful devices that sip energy rather than gulp it. So as an “ancillary” machine, I have it plugged into a 13″ 1080p USB C powered touch screen … powering the screen from this PC via USB A port to USB C, which is also the “touch” connection, and using a full HDMI cable. I RDP my general VM for email etc. But I also have the Spotify App on there, and Plex client as I have a Plex server (I have a lot of personal “server” services running on other small machines in VMs/containers etc.). I can KVM to it with my mouse/keyboard, although I also use Microsoft’s “Mouse Without Borders” which works really well in Windows 10. I checked compatibility for Windows 11 before purchasing … I think this machine looks OK for that. Using Web browsers is fine too … and fine for other video streaming etc.

I’m an Office 365 account holder so I wanted to be able to store up to 1TB of OneDrive data on here too. I’m running Windows from the built-in eMMC though … it seems fast enough for that, but I have created a Windows page file partition on the NVMe SSD. And I wanted dual boot – though still to set that up, though left some space free for it. I leave some space … made some space on the eMMC, as I’m not sure how wear algorithms work on these chips and whether leaving some space might be helpful. I don’t know. Just belt & braces approach. Bitlocker runs just fine on it. I chose to bitlock the entire partitions in one go though … as I preferred to let it do it rather than possibly slow the CPU down a little more during operation later. I fitted a WD Blue SN550 2TB High-Performance M.2 PCIe NVME SSD from Amazon for 175 at time of writing which seemed the best bang for my buck from a reliable vendor, as far as I could see. This machine is unlikely to benefit from performance pedigree per se, but it’s the reliability and running cooler when maxing-out the data transfer rates, at a competitive cost, that interests me.

I’m using wired internet – not tested the WiFi or bluetooth yet. With the NVMe in, it gets a little warm if using the Plex client, but not hot. It goes to sleep nicely with a push of the front button. The sound is OK – using the wired socket. I use a USB powered Hart Just Mixer – mixer which is another product that I really like. (Though I use anti-ground loop thingies on a couple of the audio leads to get rid of hum/noise if powering the mixer, especially, from a USB source sharing a ground-plane with any of the audio inputs/outputs).

In every day use the machine, including web browsers, feels fast/responsive, even with multiple tabs and apps open.
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As a back-up machine, I wanted the dual 4K option, because I like using at least 2x monitors for software development. One only 1080p landscape, but the other, a very wide screen, in flipped-portrait mode. And then I RDP my work VM. It’s a backup to my Dell XPS that’s my everyday driver, though it’s nice having an ancillary machine while my XPS focuses on work. This machine is plenty fast enough to not notice much difference for everyday tasks.

For back-up purposes, I can plug it into my “admin” vlan at home … and I also have edge, chrome and firefox installed with no issues and running well. I’m saying all this to highlight how versatile this machine is … as everyday computer, but also a handy thin-client and administrative machine. It uses so little power it could run on a decent UPS for ages! It doesn’t give off much heat.

I haven’t tried anything heavier on it … e.g. any Development / creative stuff. I’m sure it’ll run vscode … but I don’t expect it to be a great experience though perhaps adequate for light Dev tasks, and I don’t expect it to compile very fast. I don’t expect it to play games unless streamed games which I expect will run quite well on it (ToDo). Maybe if I had no choice but to run a Dev environment on it, my impression is that I could maybe get by very slowly (e.g. running Web API servers with debugger attached and maybe Node proxy / front end React server, refreshing (recompiling) the Node stuff on save etc. and maybe running a heavy-database like SQL Server … this sort of meatier load probably won’t run too well on this machine, and might even knock it over, but using vscode or similar (I’m mostly Microsoft based and creature of habit though migrating a lot of stuff to Linux actually) … anyway … using something like VScode … it could probably get by. If you’re a front-end Dev maybe and the backend/database is running somewhere else. Occasional Photoshop etc. might be OK if not doing any crazy rendering. It is a 4x processor machine so I imagine multi-threaded work will benefit from that … the J4125 does support VT-D … Hyper-V etc. if you want Microsoft’s Sub System for Linux and Docker desktop running etc. … I’m pretty sure it will be OK for light tasks using those sorts of technologies. I do actually have a J5005 based NuC running Open Media Vault (including with LUKs encrypted drives), Plex Server in a docker container, and quite a few other services in Docker containers including IoT etc. and OpenVPN in case my main router goes down etc. … and I have actually used an Ubuntu based container with a desktop, in the container, that I could RDP before too … so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at just how pleasantly powerful Intel’s more modern Celeron chips are.

This machine is a light duty machine. What’s amazing about it is just how good it is, for such little volume, and such little energy. And a reasonable price.

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I had no issues finishing the Windows set-up and updating it to a more recent version. You can set it up with a local account if you like (while Windows 10 anyway … not 11). If you want bitlocker, you have to enable it. (It is Windows 10 Pro).

No crashes or freezes or anything so far.

The only caution I have is that the USB C power socket isn’t a Power Delivery one. There’s a sticker on the device warning you of this, advising a 26V max input limit, and advising to use the included 12V 2A plug. The plug doesn’t seem too cheap … happy with that. And I’m powering a monitor from it too, via USB on this machine. But still … I took the sticker off the heat sink facing, and I hope I don’t forget in the future. I wish it was a Power Delivery socket.

I’ve probably forgotten key things I meant to say that’s actually relevant lol. Oh well. My impression at least, is that machine is a very decent every day (modern Windows / Web / Streaming) PC that could hide behind your monitor and add maybe 25 per year to your electricity bill if maxing it out 24/7 all year. Or something like that. Maybe less if you have “economy 7” equivalents etc. It’s just amazing. Amazing.

I like the MeLE Quieter2. There are some cheaper options with similar performance but I love the form factor. For basic tasks and web browsing, it is more than powerful enough. It is fine for most 4K video needs but don’t expect any real gaming here.

I strongly recommend getting an NVMe SSD and re-installing windows to that. I will not get in to technical details but it is not ideal to run windows from an internal eMMC drive (that it uses). The UEFI (Bios) contains the Windows license, so there is no problem installing Windows on a new drive.

I installed a Western Digital 500GB WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD ($50) which supports read speeds up to 2,600 MB/s.
The Quieter2 does support NVMe so don’t bother with the slower SATA drives. You will not get the full performance of NVMe but you will get speeds better than SATA and way better than the included eMMC.

I included two screenshots showing speeds of the NVMe drive and the eMMC.

I strongly recommend going to the MeLE website and downloading the Windows drivers and back that up. Who really knows how long they will be around or supporting the product. I don’t expect much support from China.

They have instructions for reinstalling Windows but that will not give you an option to select another drive. It just restores the eMMC.

If you want to install Windows on another drive, search for “Create installation media for Windows”. Create the USB install drive. Enter BIOS (F7 or del key) and change boot order to the USB drive. Save and reboot. Follow the on screen instructions to install windows. Obviously select the new drive. Don’t worry about the Windows product key. The install automatically gets it from the UEFI (Bios).

In Windows do “Windows Update” a few times and then go to “Device Manager”. You will likely see missing drivers. Right click and select “Update Driver” for them and browse to the MeLE drivers that you downloaded.

If you find that the edges or the screen get cut off when connecting to a TV, go into “Intel Graphics Command Center” (should be installed from Windows Update) and adjust the Display -> Scale (Custom).