Are there any Android based computers that can be used as a PC replacement?

Question

Computers

I liked Samsung's DEX technology and Huawei's Desktop Mod.

Are there compact single-board computers the size of a smartphone that can replace a PC -
that is, to have a desktop and work with files ..

Such a computer is needed only for a browser and video cards, and for working with text.

Answer 1

Any smartphone / tablet with hdmi (or find a wireless hdmi / dp hub, all modern smartphones can broadcast the screen via wifi) with usb otg support (I haven’t seen it without this support for a long time) + a regular usb hub + connect a mouse keyboard (there is also bluetooth mice and keyboards, connect these to anything at all) and work.
Better look for hardware with hdmi / dp, since wireless has a lot of small but inconvenient drawbacks, for example, on a monitor, the screen will most likely be in screen copy mode on a smartphone with the same resolution, another point, cheap hardware can fail, for example, I have a tablet which, when broadcast to the screen, rotates the image by 90 degrees, then I just could not solve it, another moment, smartphones usually do not have a separate charging slot, and usb will be occupied by the keyboard.
ps I have a familiar year sitting on a tablet worth 5t.r. (died, handed over under warranty) connected via mini hdmi, even a hard drive was connected through the hub (not very fast - 30mb / s usb limit), although there was windows 10, but this does not change the weather much.
It will be sad to sit on android as on a desktop, the software is inconvenient, I strongly recommend that you study the issue of installing desktop linux on it, even if as a separate application (there were articles on Habré
) actually in the browser on weak hardware it will not be comfortable to sit.
if you are not afraid of the mini itx size - take it, motherboards usually come with a processor, and they are ideal in terms of performance-price ratio, besides it is x86. In this area, ready-made cases are more expensive than the filling, so if there are problems with money but not crooked hands, do the case yourself

Answer 2

Intel Stick or Raspberry PI

Answer 3

Perverted hello. Worked on an Orange Pi PC in Armbian with 1 gig of RAM and... enough. 2-3 tabs in the fox, Youtube played 144p music in the background, and when necessary, gave out 480p, office, XFCE, a little bit of GIMP a couple of times and all this for $15. And under it, it seems, there is Android, but performance will be worse there.
Well, or Compute Stick, but it is both more expensive, and on x86, which, although it works in Android, has less software for it.
Yes, and Android on a PC is tin. Everything with a mouse if there is no touchscreen, the buttons are huge, the right mouse button is almost never used, there is no multi-touch either, so don’t worry, take yourself a PC (LattePanda Alpha. Core m3, 8GB RAM. Fits in your pocket, Windows is, but it seems worth it , also a lot (subjectively)). Well, or Raspberry and clones, since Linux is the same everywhere, it is configured the same way, there is a lot of software and you can customize the appearance as you wish.