Sound from headphone jack was awful. a lot of noise and distortion. Either this is driver problem or a fault with the computer. I’ve sent it back for refund s I had the same problem with other minisforum pc’s. I didn’t find any updated drivers on Minisforum web site. Great shame as the rest of the pc was fine and fast. I’ve now purchased another brand of mini pc which so far is fine on headphone jack. No background noise on that one. I purchased a mini computer for my hauptwerk organ software so needed good quality sound.

Firstly, let me say that I had to return this PC because there was something wrong with it and I didn’t have time to mess about and fix it. It was a WiFi issue that needed more time to be solved but sadly at this time, I just didn’t have it. I will be buying another one in a couple of months when I have more time.

I connected the PC by network cable eventually (trailing across the floor so not ideal) but it was an absolute blast while it was working. My PC at home for the past year has been a Mac Mini M2 and this thing was easily as fast as that. I work with Adobe software (CC) and after I installed the suite on the Minisforum, and it did all its windows updates, it was just as fast as the Mac Mini, maybe a little faster. Apps seemed to launch quicker and run a little more smoothly and it had no issue running my BenQ 4K monitor. Colours were accurate and the display scaling worked a treat. My Mac makes a mess of running at 4K – the menus are tiny and there’s no way to change that other than dropping the resolution on the monitor – thanks a lot Apple. Who’s going to purchase a 4K monitor and be forced to drop it to 1440p to get it to work?

This PC was very quiet and has plenty of connection options compared to my Mac. It’s also under 50% of the size of the Mac Mini and this makes it very unobtrusive. There are no vibrations or strange noises coming from it and the SSD is very fast (as fast as the Mac) so no issues there. There’s plenty of RAM (32gb) so I never experienced any issues running PS, Illustrator, Bridge, Edge and Outlook at the same time and using large files – most of the artwork I work with is 100mb + and it never missed a beat.
I can honestly say that it exceeded my expectations and I will be purchasing another one to replace my Mac Mini in a couple of months when I can iron out any issues that may arise.
Finally, I have to say that I contacted Minisforum for support and they were polite and very helpful – again not what I expected at all!

I’ve had the MINISFORUM Mini PC UM690S for coming up to a month now and it’s far and away the best computer I’ve ever used. I did have a problem with windows 11 so I contacted the Minisforum customer service to see if they could help. They didn’t just advise me what to do, they walked me through everything. They spent a few hours over 2 days, with around 50 emails back and forth. I have memory problems and they were very understanding. They could see that I was struggling to sort out the problem myself so they, with my permission, took over the computer and not only fixed the problem but they also upgraded windows 11 for me. I can now do everything that I need to do with the mini PC.

It is a mini PC in size only. It can do everything that a full size PC can do and probably do it better. I don’t play games so I can’t say anything about that but it’s done everything else that I’ve tried on it.

I’m going to be replacing my HTPC later this year and I’m almost certainly buying it from Minisforum. I couldn’t recommend them enough!