WEIDAIN Fanless PC Industrial Mini Industrial PC Fanless Computer i5 8350U Dual HD Display Output Dual RJ45 2RS232

This is a niche product that hits its mark well. The fanless design isn't just a marketing term — it's what makes this useful for industrial, shop floor, or embedded applications where dust and debris would kill a conventional fan-cooled machine. Running an i5-8350U in a passively cooled aluminum chassis with no moving parts is the whole pitch, and it delivers. Silent operation, compact footprint, and Win11 Pro pre-installed so setup is relatively painless. The port selection is genuinely impressive for the size: dual HDMI, 4x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, dual RJ45, dual RS232 COM ports — the latter being unusual and specifically useful for industrial equipment like CNC machines, POS systems, or older hardware that still runs serial. Worth noting there are no USB-C ports, which matters less in an industrial context but is worth knowing for standard desktop use cases. Only nine reviews to work with, but all five stars and the use cases described (CNC shop environments, industrial automation) match exactly what this is built for. If you need a quiet, reliable, connectivity-rich mini PC for a demanding or dusty environment, this is the right call. Read more

Great value with a smooth and easy set-up. __Overall this is a great value for the price. Below are some of the features that were most attractive to me and some of what I did with this (so you can judge the review better). __Win 11 Pro pre-installed was a nice feature. __256 Gb SSD NVME/SATA (extendable to 2 Tb via 2.5 “HDD) __RAM 8Gb, max 32 Gb __Eight (8) USB ports--but none are USB-C's. __Large amounts of ports to choose from (USB and HDMI, plus legacy RS232 COM ports). I used HDMI and USB successfully. Did not have reason to check the legacy ports. __I did have a problem connecting to a very old monitor, but I can not tell if that was due to the monitor that had an OLD 15 pin connection to HDMI with a special cable, but other monitors had no issues, so I will assume the fault is mine, not the PC. __Mounts to back of monitor with included VESA hanging plate (includes necessary screws). Note: If you are mounting it on the back of a monitor, I would still leave space behind it for the cooling fins of the PC to obtain sufficient airflow behind your monitor. In other words, if you mount on the back of a monitor, don't plan on putting the monitor smack dab against a wall: Leave a little room. __Cooling fins run warm (not hot) to the touch after being powered on and actively copying 28Gb of data from NAS via Wi-Fi over several hours (cool to touch when powered on with just browser tabs open). When just operating software without such data activity, cooling fans were not notably warm. __Has SATA cable if you want to add additional storage via 2 ½ “ SATA HDD. __No noise at all when running (e.g. fanless). __No noise includes not getting any dings/bells/whistles as an audible clue from your software as well, since this has no internal speaker, just an audio jack for output. No surprise there because it was in Amazon description. Just mentioning it in case you depend on hearing that kind of thing. __Easy set-up. __Hopefully will tolerate garage environment (private home, non-commercial use). __I hope this review helps you somehow. Read more

This is an amazingly powerful tiny little computer that is capable of standing up to the environment of working in a shop. I have a CNC plasma table that sits in a dirty, often very smokey and oily shop, and this little guy seems to be the perfect solution to make it all work. I’m not a computer guy, I like cutting torches :), but my nephew was able to hook this thing up in record time to replace the laptop we had been using but that had died due to smoking for too many years (RIP), but in less than an hour my table was cutting again. I was impressed. This thing is capable, and it’s built to live in small, and somewhat unhealthy environments. I totally love this little computer, it does everything I ask it to do, and so far has done it flawlessly. Honestly, I think it is capable of doing much more than I ask of it. Read more

This is a nice setup for something like shop, garage, warehouse, kitchen, etc. Seems to boot quickly because uses SSD drive. Came with windows 11 pro, uses Realtek ethernet for wired and wireless networking, Samsung M.2 SSD. Has two NICs so could also be used for something like a small server, router, etc. Add another HDD in it or attached and make a file server, etc. I was a little leery of this unusual brand thinking could have bad stuff on it but near as I can tell from scans and network traffic monitoring it seems like to be clean from anything bad. Power button was upside down when I got but I was able to remove front cover and flip it right. Read more