Asus Vivomini UN42

63 reviews

May, 2024

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price (6)
usability (4)
design (3)
reliability (1)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 63 reviews of Asus Vivomini UN42. The average rating for this product is 4.3/5, compared to an average rating of 4.1/5 for other Desktops for all reviews. People really like the design and price, but opinions about the reliability and usability are different.

size, price, design

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Desktops the Asus Vivomini UN42 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 86/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for Asus Vivomini UN42

alaTest has collected and analyzed 1 user review of Asus Vivomini UN42 from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 5.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.2/5 for other Desktops on Amazon.co.uk. People really like the design.

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100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

May, 2024

Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Asus Vivomini UN42

alaTest has collected and analyzed 21 user reviews of Asus Vivomini UN42 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.9/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other Desktops on Amazon.com. Reviewers really like the reliability and size. The usability and price also get good comments. There are some mixed opinions about the design.

price, usability, size, reliability

76% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

May, 2024

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great PC for Basic Jobs

If you need a Basic PC, I use mine to play internet video on my TV, this is great. If you want something that needs some horsepoeer like gaming this would not be a good choice

Small, wireless, comes preconfigured

Limited Memory and disk space for intensive applications

May, 2016

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

very satisfied

bought for my mother-in-law to hook up with her 1080 TV for small home entertainment. this model is not a barebone system so you dont have to buy anything else and even come with a wireless keyboard and a mouse. I am gonna buy another one for myself.

very small and neat. well designed and well detailed inside&outside.

32gb ssd is not enough even if we want to use it for only surfing and watching movies. but usb3.0 flash drives are very cheap these days so bought 64gb usb drive as an external drive using

Jan, 2016

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Small yet Full-Featured

Great unit and fits the job I gave it (A simple paging server for my building). Comes with bluetooth keyboard and mouse that work immediately. Aesthetically pleasing and well priced

No VGA or DVI port so setting it up for remote access only requires buying an HDMI dummy dongle or having it plugged into an HDMI monitor ; 32GB is not quite enough space to upgrade to Windows 10 without having to use external storage

Oct, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Nice little system

If you are installing from, or need to use CDs or DVDs, you might want to buy a USB external CD/DVD device.

Nice little system, it's basically a complete PC without the noise you get from a regular desktop ; You NEED to buy RAM, mSata drive, and mini PCIe card (for wireless/bluetooth). The mini PCIe is optional if you don't need wireless or bluetooth, but...

None really, other than knowing you need to buy more than just this item to have a functioning system

Feb, 2015

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Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Asus UN42-M016M

Size and quietness

I never checked before I bought but Ubuntu will not see the wifi card, so I had to use Windows, which is exactly what I did not want to do.

Jun, 2015

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Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Asus UN42-M016M

excellent small box, installed Centos 6.6 X64 onto it. Its a dual core Celeron so performance is fine for what I need to do (so I gave a 10 compared to bigger cpu's its maybe not a 10), installed 256KB Crucial mSata, perfect as a home web server

nope, all good

May, 2015

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Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Asus UN42-M016M

This product looks awesome and replaced a media centre computer of mine for the next few years, after that I can see this becoming a custom built set top media box and getting attached to a tv.

Shame you can't fit anything other than an mSata solid state chip(drive) in this instead of a sata ssd.

May, 2015

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