Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2020
For the past three years I have been trading currencies using bots that I have written. The idea with that is wanting a system that will trade and make you money whilst you sleep. Previously I used subscriptions to various VPSs for this but those have always turned out to be expensive. 
I used one of the top providers for around about a year and a half which cost me about £15 per month for a pretty low spec machine based in France - this hurt my wallet and performance wasn’t great - the final straw was when it became a victim to a crypto-jacking attack. So I decided to try a mini pc. I’d heard that they perform well whilst being almost silent due to them having no fan.
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Setting up was easy. I got Windows 10 booted up in no time. It was then just a simple case of getting all the trading software loaded up on there - which I have done many times before - so I was up and running in no time. So, I have been very impressed with the performance it. I can leave it beavering away watching several trading terminals whilst I multitask on it. Even at the busiest times performance doesn’t suffer and the mini pc doesn’t get too hot or at all loud. 
As I would expect, it had no problem picking up connections to monitors via HDMI as well as other USB-connected peripherals like keyboard and mouse. Overall this was a cost-effective replacement for a VPS and the highest spec of mini PC that I have owned to date.
