[Felger]

MiniPCs...

Have seen hundred of chinese ones fail. More than half failed between 1 and 3 years.

As stated by others, issues are mainly and very commonly with the power stage / power management of the mainboard. Also, soldering quality issues leading to failures.

Far less issues with good brands like Dell and HP (had a few hundred of desktop mini g2/3/4). Even tinys from Lenovo do perform quite well compared to their entry level laptops (also quite bad). Industrial computers form factor are also generally quite good but quite expensive, even second hand ones.

Currently don't have enough feddback on the Asus ones nor enough volume to draw conclusions, but so far they performed well with minimal issue, even with models back from i3/i5 8th gen series.

[throw5g432y]

I have the opposite experience as you. I have seena lot of failed Dell and HP mini desktops, but all the Beelinks and Minisforum PCs have been very reliable.

[srcreigh]

Why do you need a throwaway account to say this?