I had to remove the four rubber pad on the bottom of the case, and loosen four screws. You can watch the unboxing video if you are interested. The front panel features a power LED and button, with all other ports located on the rear panel: power jack, Gigabit Ethernet port, micro SD card slot, audio jack, mini HDMI port, and three USB 3.0 ports. GearBest sent instead the “Royal Blue” model show in the left side above. The lack of WiFi may be an advantage for some people who do not want WiFi at all in their device. GeekBuying sent the “Tyrant Gold” model as picture above, with the package including a 12V/3A power supply, a mini HDMI to HDMI cable, WiFi USB dongle (no built-in WiFi in the device), a “Specifications” user’s guide, and another document in Chinese. If you’re concerned about that maybe you could ask the seller to add a sticker to hide those words… Click to Enlarge Note that there was no mention of “VMac mini” on the invoice or DHL package itself, so customs will only find out if they open the parcel. When I first read the markings on the package, I read “Mac Mini” instead of “VMac Mini”, so if you happen to live in a country where customs care about those things, your device may end being confiscated for trademark infringement. However, GearBest left a paper inside the package confirming they sent the N4200 version. Voyo VMac Mini Unboxingīoth packages look identical, but the N3450 model has a sticker with basic specs, while the N4200 model did not have anything to indicate which model I received.
I’ll start by checking out the hardware today, before reviewing one of the models, and comparing performance through benchmarks for both mini PCs a little later. Truth be told, though, none of the existing competitors we’ve tested lately (like the Chuwi HiBox) have the quality of components found in the VMac Mini.I received my first Apollo Lake device yesterday with CHUWI LapBook 14.1 laptop, and today I got two more with Voyo VMac Mini powered by Intel Celeron N3450 processor sent by GeekBuying, and the version powered by the more powerful Pentium N4200 processor sent by GearBest.
#Voyo v1 vmac mini pc Pc#
Voyo should solve these two issues in the next version of this PC to hit the jackpot. While you can add a USB Wi-Fi dongle to your device, you cannot really do anything to mitigate the boisterous cooler. However, the lack of Wi-Fi out of the box is frustrating, and the noisy fan is equally annoying at times. On the one hand, the Voyo VMac Mini will appeal to businesses looking for a reasonably well-specced workstation with oodles of local storage and an affordable price tag. Other tests we performed (Passmark, Cinebench, Novabench and CrystalDiskMark) cemented the belief that Voyo may well have struck a sweet spot with the VMac Mini. The Atto benchmark also returned some very good read/write numbers thanks to the M.2 SSD, even higher than the SSD inside the Asus AsusPro B9440UA laptop managed. In terms of benchmarks, its CPU-Z single and multi-thread scores are far ahead of the Dell Latitwhich is powered by the Intel Core M-5Y71. This is a solid device that will run almost any office or business applications without flinching thanks to a capable processor and a surprisingly nippy storage subsystem. When it came to sheer performance, we couldn’t fault Voyo’s mini PC. Expect the device to deliver 802.11n Wi-Fi.
#Voyo v1 vmac mini pc Bluetooth#
This is likely to be down to a defective component rather than Windows itself as Bluetooth – which is usually serviced by the same card – was unavailable as well. Unfortunately we couldn’t get Wi-Fi to work at all on the VMac Mini. The PC logged straight into desktop mode without asking for a password.
#Voyo v1 vmac mini pc windows 10#
The device ran a licensed version of Windows 10 Home which we found to be already registered, a common practice among Chinese manufacturers and something we neither condone nor encourage. Still, we don’t understand the logic of having eMMC flash storage in addition to the SSD – although it does open the way for multiple SKUs (one with flash memory only, one with SSD and flash, and the other with SSD and hard disk drive). What sets apart the VMac Mini from the rest of the competition, and explains the high wattage PSU, is the fact that this mini PC can take a laptop drive (2.5-inch SATA) in addition to the 128GB M.2 2280 SSD and the embedded 32GB eMMC flash storage.
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