The news that traditional desktop computers are dying out is true! According to the latest data of market research company Gartner, the global PC sales in the third quarter of 2015 decreased by 7.7% year on year, and the pace of shrinkage is accelerating. As a legacy of the last century, the fate of desktop computers has come to an end, and microcomputers with higher appearance and smaller size came into being. The higher integration reduces the size of the desktop computer to the size of a palm of your hand, and solves the hard injuries of traditional desktop computers, such as large floor space, loud noise, ugly appearance, and being only placed under the desk. The Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX is such a mini host that you can place it in the most prominent position on your desk or home desk like an artwork.

The Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX is a high-end i5 dual hard disk mini host in the Polar Night Dark Ranger series. The package is very simple. Only a high-tech enterprise logo is printed on the top of the box, and the black outer package is particularly impressive.

This mini host is a product launched by Polar Night in cooperation with Haier, Foxconn and Intel. The famous movie star Chen Zihan participated in the product design and endorsement, which reflects that Polar Night pays attention to product quality and performance, and also reflects that Polar Night is taking a fashion line. All users who purchase this mini host will receive a Gee Friend card for receiving the system USB flash disk and contacting the manufacturer for technical support.

The polar night mini host has made some efforts in the packaging protection of the product. The product is placed in the sponge protective layer one by one to prevent damage during transportation. It is important to know that the mechanical hardware in the host is very fragile. Severe vibration will lead to the dislocation of the magnetic head to operate the hard disk, while the large area of sponge can effectively play the role of cushioning and shock absorption.

In addition to the host and the necessary power supply, the packaging box of the Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX also contains the leading product of Polar Night - the intelligent remote control system K900 MAX, which will be introduced in detail below. Other accessories include an HDMI cable, a transparent bracket, a USB data cable, two WIFI antennas, drive CD, manual, warranty card and other paper materials.

The transparent bracket is beautiful and practical. It can stand the host on the desktop to reduce the space occupied by the host. There are two large rubber anti slip foot pads under the bracket, which have strong grip. In addition to standing the host on the desktop stably, there is no need to worry about scratching the desktop.

The K900 MAX intelligent remote control is the leading product in the extreme night. It has a double-sided design. The front is an 11 key remote control. Although there are only 11 keys, it has very rich functions. The appearance of the black silver combination is very cool. The surface has been treated with UV coating, and the gloss is very good. The feel is also very powerful. The smart TV and box at home are compatible and very convenient.

The back of the remote control is a full keyboard and a game remote control button. This K900 MAX remote control combines the advantages of the flying mouse, infrared remote control, and wireless keyboard, and supports powerful functions such as voice, body sense, infrared, and multi axis sensing. It is suitable for Android, Windows, IOS, and LINUX models. It also supports charging.

As a powerful brand, Polar Night has been proving its ability with strength. The whole body of the T5S MAX is made of anodized aluminum, which not only gives people a strong visual sense of performance, but also is more conducive to the heat dissipation of the host. As a whole, there is only a power switch button on the front panel, and no REST button is designed. This is Polar Night's confidence in the quality of its products.

The size of the T5S MAX is very small, the thickness is about the same as a one yuan coin, and the height is only 19cm, which is about the size of an ordinary router at home. You should know that the host is a pure metal body. In such a small space, it has a configuration beyond ordinary office desktops. The latest i5-5500 processor, 8G memory, 64GB solid state disk+1TB mechanical hard disk dual hard disk combination is incredible.

Although the host is small in size, it does not cut corners on the interface at all. The golden one on the left is the SMA antenna interface of the wireless network card. As mentioned earlier, the polar night host comes with two antennas, one is short and one is thin, which is suitable for different network environments. Users can choose to install them by themselves.

From the wireless antenna to the right, there are HDMI interfaces, 4 USB interfaces, 2 gigabit network card interfaces, mini HDMI interfaces, and power interfaces.

On the right side, there is also a set of USB3.0 interfaces, a microphone interface, and a 3.5mm audio/optical fiber digital hybrid interface; If you stand the host on the base, you will find that the USB3.0 interface and audio interface that are most frequently used are placed on the top of the host. This design is very convenient for users to plug and unplug devices.

In addition to the above interfaces, there is also a COM port on the other side of the host. From the interface aspect, we can see that the designers of Polar Night/Topfeel T5S MAX are very considerate and have a complete range of interfaces, which can not only meet the daily needs of ordinary users, but also retain the serial ports used by industrial and enterprise users. Of course, the drawback is that there is no VGA interface. At this stage, HDMI has been popularized on televisions, but it has not been popularized on computer monitors. So I feel that it is more practical for ordinary users to replace COM interface with VGA interface.

The polar night/topfeel T5S MAX looks from the outside, the workmanship is very strict, and the panels are tightly jointed without gaps. In fact, it is not difficult to disassemble this mini host. A total of 13 screws are used to fix the shell of the machine. It is worth noting that all the screws are cruciform screws of the same model, which reduces the difficulty of disassembly and facilitates ordinary users to upgrade the host hardware in the future. However, this ghost encountered a problem when disassembling. The cross pattern of a screw was smoothed and could not be disassembled. I hope that the quality requirements will be improved when selecting the screw at the end of the night.

After opening the back cover of the mini host, we can find that the overall internal design of the mini host is in order, the main board PCB is thick, the solder joints are fine, there are not too many flying wires, and the layout between the modules is not particularly tight. Roughly, the location design of the mechanical hard disk needs to be improved. At present, the mechanical hard disk is at the bottom of the motherboard. If you want to replace the hard disk, you must remove all the motherboards, which is very inconvenient. It is recommended that the official improve.

The Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX is pre installed with Window8.1 Professional Edition, and the system shows that it has been activated, which means that consumers need to get the mini host and connect it to the power to use it. Of course, users who are not accustomed to the Window8 system can change the system by themselves. It is the same as the ordinary PC installed system. If they cannot operate, they can go to the Polar Night Forum to see the top posts, which contain tutorials.

The boot time is generally used to measure the basic performance of a computer. The T5S MAX uses a combination of dual hard disks, 64G Jianxing solid state disk system, and 1TB mechanical hard disk to store files. With both speed and capacity, it only takes about tens of seconds to boot up, reducing users' waiting time. Daily office work is a piece of cake for the Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX. It can be easily handled by Word, Excel or other daily office software.

For home users, watching movies is probably the most popular thing. Let's test the mini host's ability to parse 4K, The three short films 4K New Zealand, 4K American Cities 4096x2304-47mb and 4K 2013 Japanese Cherry Blossoms are classic 4K test samples. For computers with general configurations, when playing these samples, they will pause for three seconds at a frame. The T5S MAX is very smooth when playing, so it is judged that the performance of the mini host is not inferior to that of mainstream computers.

If T5S MAX is only used for office work, browsing web pages and watching high-definition videos, it is really overqualified and a bit wasteful of performance. With the configuration of mini host, there is no problem running mainstream games. After playing several games of LOL and CF, I found that the operation is very smooth, and there is no frame dropout. These two games can run smoothly, and other small games should be able to cope. After playing for so long, I tried the temperature of the host by hand. The chassis is only slightly hot, so I can rest assured of the heat dissipation problem.

Conclusion:
Although Jiye is just a new brand, it is very reassuring in terms of product quality. The whole country has joint guarantee and 3C certification. The Polar Night/topfeel T5S MAX mini host itself has many advantages: exquisite design, ultra-thin pure metal body to improve the appearance, whether placed in the living room or the study, it is not eye-catching; No fan passive cooling design, very quiet operation, no need to worry about noise distractions when working; 40W ultra-low power consumption, energy conservation and environmental protection, ultra-small size, easy to carry, no matter where you go, you can work at any time and so on.
Of course, as far as the current product is concerned, there is also a shortage. The biggest shortage is that there is no VGA port. Secondly, when the mini host is placed horizontally, there is no foot pad on the bottom surface, which will wear the table top and the bottom shell of the host. The third point is about appearance. Strictly speaking, this is a suggestion. Although the host has been done beautifully, I feel that the appearance can be higher. After all, it is a product on the desktop.