Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q Tiny PC

Lenovo ThinkCentre M710Q Tiny PC

This “older” processor doesn’t support Window 11. The last time a mini or SFF PC went on sale here someone made a comment about this Ace Magician Mini Gaming PC for double the price but you get a lot more for your dollar. I picked one up last week and set it up over the weekend. So far so good as I don’t use it for gaming but just to make sure I can multitask without feeling my PC lag. And the versatile modes make it useful for to quiet down the fans when listening to music. I’d like the opinion of all you tech savvy members here to let me know if I wasted my money or not :w_happy1:

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Anyway to know what “SSD” is in there? If it’s an m.2, the 2tb is a steal.

From their stock photos. I checked the drive info on mine and it’s a NVMe M.2 2280 SSD but the one I bought has a 1TB. I also have a 1TB Samsung T5 external drive connected to restore my files from my old PC which took like only 1 minute to load everything

It appears to be a standard 2.5” SATA SSD. Crucial makes several lines of product, and while I don’t know all of them perfectly, I believe that the Crucial MX series is exclusively SATA - Not NVMe, or even the m.2 2280 form factor (which can host either NVMe or SATA, depending on the “key” and fit of the drive - Crucial’s “T” series is m.2 and NVMe, for instance).

For what it’s worth, I am guessing, based on the above shared photo, as well as what I have seen from Lenovo units in the past… In the photo from @Larry1977 the drive shows a “2.5” where it says “MX500 2.5 SSD” at the top, which would indicate to me that it’s a 2.5” drive, which is the traditional size for laptop hard drives or SATA SSDs. Plus, it also says SATA below where it lists the PN/SN (which are blanked out).

Hope that helps. SATA isn’t a bad thing - Just an older interface, with a slower cap for speed of transfer.

Does it have a network card? I don’t see anything listed and I was thinking of grabbing something like this to set up a plex server

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Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend it for that task. Been there, done that, and… well, wasted money. It’ll work, but with limitations. I ended up going with a Synology multi-bay server. It’s pricey, but it does the job.
As for the older processor and W11, you might be able to “trick” it to upgrade to Windows 11, but that’s a risk, too. I wasn’t successful with mine (different model).

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Stock photo doesn’t match what I have inside mine

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It has a RJ45 port and Wi-Fi along with Bluetooth capabilities. It’s almost like a laptop build but in PC form

Glad to see that yours was solid, with the m.2 - Heatsink is nice too.

Thanks for sharing. Always good to verify when there’s some potential mismatches between some of the input, so I’m glad that you were able to vouch for what is truly there.

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I’m thinking the vendor is constantly making updates as the technology improves and they reuse photos. The Amazon listing still mentioned DDR4 RAM when the specs listing says DDR5. I also like how it’s easy to access the extra slot to install another drive.