Finally a full featured USB C! Yes, you can charge the device with it now. You do loose the second physical HDMI port but USB C is a very welcome trade. This model is just a little thicker than the previous one to make room for the cooling vents and fan. The fan is borderline obscenely loud and very much the worst part of the upgrade. I realize it needs a fan but this one is the loudest one I’ve heard in a while. Build quality seems great and the new one is the same color and aluminum shell as last year. The SoC is upgraded as well as the wireless card and RAM capacity. This year we also get up to 256GB of storage. I am hearing it’s SSD but I’m not sure as there barely a handful of information on these little guys on the entire Internet. The addition of the fan eliminates the over heating that last gen suffered from.
In addition to the incredible I/O offering these units have, there seems to be a reset button on the new model. I haven’t pushed it and I don’t want to. The power button has been moved from the front of the display to the upper right. In practice, I’m finding this to be one of the worst places for the power button as your fingers naturally grip the unit there while in your hands. I have accidentally turned this new machine off multiple times. There is a very ugly warranty void sticker just sticking across the bottom edge keeping you from opening up the unit. The sticker is crooked and out of place and looks like a bandaid on an otherwise svelte device. There is no chance I will leave it on. I am trying to overlook it but it may come off right after I write this review. Bottom line, if you were a fan of last years model, then this years model is even better and improves on nearly every issue the previous model had. Next year I really want to see a webcam added, better battery, and a better display (OLED?)

The mini PC didn't register a charging cord. I was able to boot up on battery and start windows (kept WiFi off just in case) once realizing that I was unable to charge the device attempted to remove my info and erase the new user profile but it would not let me under battery power. Had I used the WiFi for set up all of my info would have been stored and not removable from the device. I started a return immediately, and will update my review as it is resolved.

Even with a battery it will only turn on if plugged in. battery reports full charge. this issue started on day 2. I'm clueless as to what to do. everything else about it is great. EDIT: Monday Feb, 3 For some reason that I am not aware it now functions normal. Powers on normally with batter or plugged in as one would expect. took 24H2 fine also.

muy bueno, la carga le dura todo el dia, corre rapido excel, liviano, resitente cabe en el bolsillo

Don’t get the previous version. It gets hot. This one is much better. Works great. Company reached out when I got the other and I complained about it and was gonna give me a slight discount on the new one since I kept the old one and bought the new one but that never happened. Now I notice the power cord is getting hot when it is plugged in charging. That’ll probably quit soon.