Comments on: CHUWI RZBOX AMD Ryzen 7 5800H Edition Review

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:05:37 +0000

What’s really interesting about this review(and some others of devices of similar provenance) is how they indirectly highlight the amount of engineering that goes into the TMM ~1L corporate-line systems that you’ve also been reviewing:

You don’t really notice it just by reading one of the TMM reviews; because so much of it is what isn’t there: no service access panel that requires 8 screws to remove, no oddly high idle power numbers, no plastic overlays on top of the actually structural parts of the chassis, etc. When there are criticisms of what you can see to be made; it’s normally fairly subtle quality-of-life stuff like Dell’s fixed SATA connector being nicer than the ones based on a proprietary adapter cable; but Lenovo’s tendency to expose both RAM and M.2 on the bottom panel, no need to pull the CPU cooler, being a virtue in non-SATA scenarios; but it’s all (comparatively) minor stuff against a background of exhaustively honed designs.

There are deficiencies and virtues that are immediately clear; but it’s having reviews from totally different worlds of products that really drives home the ones that are only visible in context.

By: weust

weust — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:00:10 +0000

No BIOS update is a big no-no.
On the other hand, the BIOS looks like a BIOS instead of the POS Gigabyte puts in their Brix 4800U.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 07:57:37 +0000

in my opinion is asrock deskmini-serie is still the best option for very small desktop.

you can choose own cpu, memory and storage

By: Rotto Bella

Rotto Bella — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 07:20:45 +0000

Over priced crap. One gets to pay laptop rice for a small board, containing just SoC and connectors with subpar cooling system, witz usually heavilly trimmed I/O options.
Why is so rare to find unit with 4 DP outputs ? SoC certainlo offers it.

Also, one would expect in such a system at least one ( inf not two) 10GbE NICs and at least couple of 2.5GbE ones.
With preferrably rich M.2 and SSD options, serial ports and some GPIO.
This would give it some possible roles where 5800H laptop couldn’t reach and perhaps some justification for the price.

By: Scott Laird

Scott Laird — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:32:09 +0000

It’d be interesting to see what the idle/avg/max power usage does when changing the BIOS power settings, maybe along with a benchmark or two. Doing a full benchmark run for 6 different BIOS settings is overkill.