The review model included a soldered-on 128GB eMMC drive and soldered-on 8GB LPDDR4 3200 MHz single-channel memory that was configured to run at 2933 MHz:Īdditionally, there is a soldered-on WiFi 6 (or 802.11ax) Intel AX201 card as well as the ability to add an M.2 2280 NVMe SSD drive:Īnd lists all of the USB ports as 3.0 so I tested them together with the Type-C USB port using a Samsung 980 PRO PCle 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD housed in a ‘USB to M.2 NVMe adapter’ (ORICO M2PAC3-G20 M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure) which showed that the first two USB ports on the right side were actually ‘USB 3.1’ (USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 i.e. The left panel has a Kensington security slot and the right panel like before has three Type-A USB ports. The front panel just has an illuminated power button whilst the rear panel now includes a Type-C USB port, a headphone jack, a microSD card slot, a mini DisplayPort, an HDMI port, a Type-C USB port for power only, and a gigabit Ethernet port.

As a passively cooled mini PC, it uses Intel’s 10 nm Jasper Lake N5105 processor which is a quad-core 4-thread 2.00 GHz Celeron processor boosting to 2.90 GHz with Intel’s UHD Graphics. The top half of the case has the characteristic fine grooves that mimic the fins of a heat spreader and is made of plastic rather than metal to allow reception to the WiFi antennas as one is directly connected to it. The MeLE Quieter3C is physically the same size as the Quieter3Q and consists of a 131 x 81 x 18.3mm (5.16 x 3.19 x 0.72 inches) rectangular plastic case with a metal base plate.

MeLE kindly sent one for review and given these are the only differences I’m only going to take a cursory look at performance benchmarks together with looking at these new features. MeLE’s newly launched Quieter3C is an update to their earlier Quieter3Q product which replaces one of the Type-A USB ports with a Type-C USB port and includes both power delivery and video display output, together with changing one of the HDMI ports to a mini DisplayPort.

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