Quiet mini PC for a bedroom

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You

Which mini PC is quiet enough to sit in a bedroom?

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Anything fanless with a passive case, or a laptop-class chip undervolted and capped below its turbo. The noise people actually notice is not the fan at load but the pulsing at idle, so a fan curve with a wide hysteresis matters more than the rated decibels.

You

Any downside worth knowing before I commit?

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It commits you to a format that is tedious to migrate away from later. The first weeks also look worse than doing nothing, which is when most people abandon it.