Very impressed with RZBox
The RZBox took 5 days from initial shipment in China to delivery in North Carolina. It came loaded with Windows 10 Home and almost no bloatware which took about a minute to uninstall. I need Windows 10 Pro and would have ordered that had it been an option. I'm currently giving Windows 11 a trial on a laptop but for critical work I'm staying with 10 for now. The AMD is blazing fast, noticeably faster than my Intel Hades Canyon and HP Dragonfly. I took away one star because I find the connection ports lacking. USB-C is fairly standard but there is only one USB-C port. Since most of my external SSD drives use USB-C I either need to use a USB-B adaptor or a dongle. Also, the VGA port is unnecessary for everyone I've asked - I haven't used one in about 10 years. That space could have been used for a second HDMI port. I use mini PCs for all my desktop computing because I travel between states for music and radio production and need a multiple monitor setup and find the mini PCs work best for portability, and an external keyboard is always better than a laptop keyboard. Over the past 10 years I've had two Gigabyte Brix, two Compulab Fit 4's and the Hades Canyon which I’m still using. The build of the RZBox is comparable to the Hades Canyon, the fan is whisper quiet and the bios seems solid. The same can't be said for the build of the earlier generation Brix, and one of the Compulab Fits ran so hot it would shut down, the CPU would run around 100% for minor tasks, the bios for both Fits was very weak (one wouldn't boot up if a USB drive was inserted in a port), and the Compulab customer service was a black hole. I haven't used Chuwi customer service but anything is an improvement over Compulab. Gigabyte online tech support is solid, but their marketing support is similar to Compulab with multiple voicemail messages to their California phone line not returned, and I was referred to marketing by the online tech staff. The one-year warranty from Chuwi is standard. Given my experience with mini PCs, if I were to buy a second unit today it would be another RZBox. The Hades Canyon is excellent but 2 years ago it cost nearly double what the RXBox did, and although I like the port selection better on the Hades Canyon it came with no memory or storage and no operating system installed. All three are included in the RXBox, plus there is space to increase storage and memory if needed. I was waiting for the Gigabyte Brix Extreme to be released since one configuration takes 2.5" SSD which I could use, but for the price I'm satisfied with the RZBox and won’t even be considering the Brix Extreme since it is only available bare bones. Unless the port options aren't what you need, buy the RZBox, you won't be disappointed.