HIGOLE GOLE 2 PRO

Updated on June 23, 2026

The HIGOLE GOLE 2 PRO is a palm-sized Windows mini PC with a 5.5-inch capacitive touchscreen and an internal battery, so it runs without an external monitor or a wall socket. An Intel Celeron N5095 quad-core processor drives it, paired here with 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 256GB of eMMC storage.

Graphics come from the integrated Intel UHD engine. That covers video playback, browser work, office apps, and emulated console titles, but current 3D games and video editing are outside what this chip does.

Two USB-C ports, only one of them full-function

Wireless is Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.2, and a Gigabit Ethernet port covers wired networking. On the wired side the case has four USB 3.0 ports, one HDMI output, a microSD slot, and a combo headphone jack.

Display output, power delivery, and data all run through the first USB-C port; the second USB-C connector only takes power. That leaves one USB-C display path and one HDMI output, so plan any multi-monitor setup around those two connectors.

Phone-sized, with the screen on top

The aluminum case measures 3.75 by 6 by 0.95 inches, close to a large phone, and the whole machine, screen and battery included, weighs well under a pound.

The 5.5-inch capacitive touchscreen covers the top face and responds well to touch input. Icons and text are small at that size, so longer sessions are easier with the Windows display scaling raised.

Reviewer Insights

Across three hands-on reviews, the Intel Celeron N5095 handles light desktop work, while the tiny aluminum chassis runs hot and the fan turns loud under load.

Tek Syndicate: 94 C and hard throttling under AIDA64

Tek Syndicate ran the most complete benchmark suite in “Mini PC With a Screen? HIGOLE GOLE 2 Pro Benchmarks and Overview”, using an 8GB/128GB unit. In Cinebench the N5095 returned a single-core score of 560 and a multi-core score of 1,852; Geekbench produced 492 single-core, 1,354 multi-core, and 1,787 in the OpenCL test. Unigine Valley at 1080p on the high preset managed only a 290 score, averaging 6.9 FPS with a 4.6 FPS minimum, which the reviewer used to make the point that this is not a 3D gaming box.

Pushing the chip with AIDA64, he watched it climb to 94 C and throttle hard, saying “we are getting way too much thermal throttling … And it’s really hot and it’s quite loud.” He measured 43.9 dB at his desk, then moved the meter close to the unit and was caught off guard by the volume, comparing the loaded fan to “a miniature … turbine engine or a jet engine” and noting it holds one pitch rather than ramping up and down. Where the little machine impressed him was emulation, with PSP and even GameCube (Metroid Prime) titles running smoothly. He concluded he would have preferred an Intel N100, which he said is “half the power draw and it’s a little bit faster.”

Tech Notice measured throttling at 9.5 watts

Tech Notice tested a 16GB/256GB configuration in “Weirdest Mini PC you Can buy… feat. Gole2 Pro”, concentrating on power and thermals. With Windows updates loading the CPU, he logged the package pulling about 9 to 9.5 W while already thermal throttling at 90 C, calling “thermal throttling at 9.5 Watts … pretty insane,” and saw it settle near 6.5 W and 80 C at idle. From the wall the unit drew roughly 30.6 to 31 W while charging, and on battery it held the same 8 to 9 W and the same performance. He cited the N5095’s 15 W TDP and a 20 W PL2 ceiling, measured one corner of the shell at 52 to 53 C, and confirmed the 2500 mAh (19 Wh) battery plus the 36 W USB-C charger in the box (the 30 W brick he tried first could not keep it charged under load).

His teardown showed the RAM and storage soldered down with only the battery user-replaceable, alongside a gyroscope that auto-rotates the screen and a weak internal speaker. He called it “the most portable thing I have seen with the screen,” while admitting he was not sure exactly who needs one.

Électro-Bidouilleur: no M.2 slot on the metal battery model

French reviewer Électro-Bidouilleur bought the 16GB/256GB metal-bodied battery version specifically for portable amateur radio and software-defined radio (SDR) work. He cited the N5095’s PassMark of about 4,100 and was candid that this is no gaming or heavy-CPU machine, then concluded that for ham radio, decoding audio signals, and running an SDR receiver the machine would be “plus que suffisant” (more than enough). He weighed the unit at 339 g, confirmed Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.2 (not Wi-Fi 6), put the 2500 mAh battery at roughly 3 to 5 hours depending on workload, and pointed out that the metal battery model cannot take an add-in M.2 SSD the way the plastic non-battery version can; it relies on the 256GB onboard storage plus a microSD slot up to 2TB. He heard the variable-speed fan only faintly at idle, a contrast to the loud loaded behavior the English reviewers ran into.

The N5095 predates the N100 that replaced it

The Celeron N5095 is a Jasper Lake part Intel launched in 2021, so by 2026 it is roughly five years old and predates the Alder Lake-N N100 that has since become the default budget mini PC processor. Its PassMark multi-thread score sits near 4,100, enough for a browser, office apps, light media, and the software-defined radio setup one reviewer ran, but well behind current N100 and N150 machines that cost about the same and, as Tek Syndicate noted, draw roughly half the power. In 2026 the touchscreen and the battery are the reason to pick one of these up.

Worth the fan noise only if you need the built-in screen

The screen and the battery are what this machine sells, and they pay off in setups where a separate monitor is impractical, such as the portable SDR bench Électro-Bidouilleur bought his for. For desk work with a monitor already in front of you, an N100 box costs about the same and runs faster.

RAM and storage are soldered at 16GB and 256GB with a microSD slot as the only expansion, the metal battery version has no M.2 slot, and the fan is loud once the N5095 is loaded, so none of that changes after purchase. Compare the specs against other small machines on the Mini PC comparison chart.

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HIGOLE GOLE 2 PRO Comparison Chart

	HIGOLE GOLE 2 PRO
Price	List Price: $319.99 Amazon Prices: Loading prices...
Version	16GB/256GB/Intel Celeron N5095
Performance Rating	4.8
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro
Processor	Quad-core 2.00 Ghz (max 2.90 Ghz) Intel Celeron Processor N5095
GPU	Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
RAM	16 GB
Internal Storage	256 GB
Dimensions width x length x thickness	3.75 x 6 x 0.95 inches (95.25 x 152.4 x 24.13 mm)
Weight	unknown
WiFi	Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac)
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 5.2
Ethernet	1 Ethernet port at 1 Gbps
HDMI	1 Full-Size HDMI Port
DisplayPort	No DisplayPort
VGA	No VGA Ports
USB Ports	4 USB 3, 2 USB-C (One full-featured USB-C with display support, power delivery, and data transfer. Second USB-C port is power delivery only)
Thunderbolt Ports	No
OCuLink	No
Internal SATA Ports	No SATA ports
Card Reader	microSD Card Reader
Headphone Jack	combo
Fanless	No
VESA Mount	No
In the Box	Mini PC, power adapter, documentation
Expandability	microSD card up to 2 TB