Dreamquest Pro Mini PC Review

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Dreamquest reached out to me to offer their newest model, the Dreamquest Pro, for us to check out. Specwise this little square of a PC boasts an 11th gen Intel N5105 quad core 2.0GHz cpu, 16GB ram, a 512GB ssd, THREE HDMI monitor ports, room for internal expansion with a 2.5" sata drive slot, dual ethernet, and dual band wifi. The biggest question I have of these mini computers is ... can they game!?!? Let's boot this little guy up and see what it'll run! Also lets open it up to see the guts!
[Correction]: While filming I didn't know the price of the specific configuration I received, it is $239.99 as of the posting of this video.
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[@philipternahan3655]

Thanks for your response. I got it figured out. Had a problem with the dongle I had and got a new keyboard to continue setting up the machine. The system I got had big warning stickers about interrupting the boot, so I'm a bit freaked out, considering your experience. Will keep it on until I get through set up as the keyboard is coming by priority mail.

[@user-lz9cv2vf2n]

Where can we buy, what's their website.. am only finding the previous model when I do a web search and can't find their official website..

[@Peri712]

hallo, and what can you say if i want to watch film? 4k ?

[@azamiqbal3027]

Thanks for a fear and true review , looks like not speedy like laptops or big desktops.

[@jasonlee3247]

Great video thanks. Amazon UK seems to suggest the max internal ssd that can be fitted is 2TB, what does the manual say?

[@sjm4306]

No technical reason that I know of why it wont work with a larger drive

[@NRLInfomer]

@@sjm4306can it run fortnite

[@MacintoshLibrarian]

looks like a decent deal! there is a coupon now for 30$ off :O

[@willraya1791]

sooo cool also the amozon was updated its 239.99

[@martinvegas1327]

Can it record gameplay from an xbox series s without a capture card?

[@sjm4306]

No, it'd still need a capture card

[@mlm7298]

Thank you, can you walk me thru wiping and reinstalling win 11?

[@derrickhawkins5945]

lol this unit comes with Windows 11 Pro

[@derrickhawkins5945]

blue screened because you took it apart without a eletrostatic band grounding band. you got u=such good service because they sent the device to you to test. the rest of us not so much. The bios update makes the machine slower so do not update.

[@sjm4306]

I have to call bs on the esd suggestion. Esd would cause permanent physical damage, not corrupt the os which was easily fixed by reflashing win 10 which is what I'm running on it now. I speak from 15+ years of experience as a professional electrical engineer having taken apart thousands of things in the exact same way over the years with zero esd damage caused. Hell, when I was a kid I used to take stuff apart on bare rug and never had a problem.

[@nirgunawish]

to be fair a reviewer should be able to install windoze which barely takes 20 mins if you have an iso ready

[@sjm4306]

True it's not difficult but if you spent ~$200 on a product you shouldn't have to "fix" it right out of the box. It's fair criticism that when you buy something that it should work. And I basically had to do an installation repair anyway to get it to boot before I even found that it had this issue.

[@coolguys74]

Hello so you see these smaller computers getting even smaller in the next 20 years?

[@sjm4306]

Yep, I wouldn't be surprised if we eventually get full blown phone sized computers with decent specs sooner than later. If you think about it high end phones can already blow lower end pc's out of the water.

[@jacobnunya808]

Fanless PCs are cool, unfortunately the cheap ones are still not very powerful.

[@sjm4306]

Give it time, the current crop is way better and cheaper than just a few years ago so I can definitely see something in the performance range of a steamdeck for under $200 before long.

[@shivaaryal2035]

Ram cannot be added??

[@sjm4306]

It's hard soldered so without solder rework equipment to desolder the old ram and solder in larger compatible chips and possibly patching the bios then no there's no easy way to just upgrade the ram.

[@wheres_bears1378]

Could this run revit, or do 3d rendering

[@sjm4306]

Technically yes but honestly it'll be sluggish. For cad stuff having a decent dedicated gpu makes a huge difference. This guy only has integrated graphics.

[@wheres_bears1378]

@@sjm4306 what if I plug in an external gpu?

[@sjm4306]

You need a high speed thunderbolt port to use an egpu, this model doesn't have one of those.

[@wheres_bears1378]

@@sjm4306 Thanks for the info 😊

[@anonymousperson2189]

Mine died less then a year... and i have no idea to contact support..

[@vidyyang5847]

hello, sorry for any inconvenience ! would you like to talk to me? what is the problem? I am the DreamQuest seller.

[@anonymousperson2189]

@@vidyyang5847 stopped turning on

[@Desi_Satirist]

@@vidyyang5847 i purchased one last week, but it says Windows not Activated, can you help? thanks

[@timbacchus]

You pushed the button when you took it out of the box I bet when you hooked up the power and then hit the button you turned it off.

[@sjm4306]

It's a momentary soft power button. Pressing it without being plugged in has no effect.

[@richardcollins151]

Windows product key missing!

[@sjm4306]

Contact the manufacturer and get them to issue you a new key, no idea how it could've passed qc without proper activation.

[@chaositect1]

Why the hell do people game test this thing. It is NOT a gaming PC for fuck sake. I just want to know if it is good for day to day and media. I have an Alienware and a Falcon for gaming - gamers know where to go for their kits.

[@sjm4306]

For fun and to push it to its limits. If it can game then it can definitely do surfing and media. Calm down and lighten up a little, not everything has to be so uptight.

[@derrickhawkins5945]

lol i was thinking the same thing on this waaay too long video. No Gamer would use this device for serious gaming.

[@sjm4306]

"Real" gamers use whatever they have. I used to emulate gba on an puny athlon cpu ~2004 because that's all I had at the time.