I recently purchased
two of these Beelink units. One was to replace the Intel NUC in our Great room system to get it Window 12 compatible. The other was for the office also to get things Windows 12 compatible. These seem very good units at a price you can't beat.
I also replaced my old Dell Laptop, with one of these
Framework computers. These are a DIY job to quite an extent. They go together easily and quite quickly though. Build quality is excellent.
And then there is the
Marantz AV 10 AVP. Fortunately I bought it before the price increase. I was very annoyed with the short life of the AV 7706, but it was a blessing. I could not be more pleased with this AV 10. I never imagined it would be such a huge upgrade, from the 7705/7706 units. The failure of that 7706 I now regard as the proverbial blessing in disguise. So my advice is to not mess around with those units and go for the AV 10 or may be the AV 20, but that needs a track record as it is only just released. So far the AV 10 seems to have an excellent reliability record.
I also had to purchase this
19" rack unit for the AV 10.
Since the unit's power consumption is 100 watts I took the precaution of mounting two fans on top, set to low speed, and the unit stays at ambient temperature.
The fans come on as soon as the front three left and right main speaker Quad 909 power amps are started.