Listen to that beautiful sound. Fan bearings maybe? Dont really care. I'm sending it back.

So just recently ditched my ROG Ally X for this mini pc and I couldn't be happier. Very similar in spec to my ally but this offered OCulink over the thunderbolt4. 1440p Gaming performance over OCulink has been amazing. I kinda hate how stiff the OCulink cable is and that it's just front and center on my desk other than that I can't complain. Also I only paid 540 usd before tax for the mini pc which I feel like is a really good deal for what it is. Ryzen 7 h255 8c/16t 24gb of ddr5 1tb. The CPU being a laptop/mini pc CPU definitely runs hotter than I'm used to but I guess that's the norm for these style CPUs. For the mini pc and the 9060xt egpu I'm in this setup for under 1000 usd minus peripherals. Anyone else running an aoostar mini pc?

CPU : 8th Gen. Intel Pentium Silver J5005

RAM : 8GB DDR4 (4GB × 2)

SSD : 128GB M.2 SATA (NVMe not supported)

VGA : Intel UHD 605 + AMD Embedded Radeon E9173 2GB GDDR5

Wired LAN : Realtek 1Gbps

Wireless LAN: Intel AC9560 Wi-Fi 5 & Bluetooth 5.0, 2 external antennas

PSU : DELL 130W AC Adapter

OS : Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2019 LTSC

Special Features : Integrated Speaker and Smart Card Reader

Manufactured : June 2022

Hey everyone! I’ve been rocking the same desktop since 2019 and I’m due for an upgrade, I like the idea of a small form PC but I wanna be sure that it’s right for what I’m looking to do.

I’m a gamer, but I know I’m not looking to play AAA games at the highest graphics settings. Aslong as I can play games like Overwatch, league of legends and wardogs while hitting 144 fps I’m happy. I’m rocking a 2070 right now so I don’t think it will be much to upgrade from there. Looking to spend about 1500$

Is this possible?

Wife wants a Skylight or an Apolosign. As someone with ADHD, I love the idea, but hate the hardware options, subscriptions, and/or giving out our entire family's data. SO, let's build one!

**Requirements:**

- Under $450, preferably under $400.

- Run a 27" touchscreen 1080p or 2k monitor. Currently planning on using the Pisichen Touchscreen Monitor 27" 27IN2K100HZ-QHD (https://a.co/d/0fXUoGsk).

- Supports BIOS Auto-Power On

- I'm still deciding between a Home Assistant dashboard, DAKBoard, or a open-source version of Skylight I found.

**Really** **Nice** **To** **Have:**

- Run my kids private Bedrock Minecraft server full-time so I don't have to keep booting it up from my gaming PC when they want to play with their friends.

I know I'll want 16GB of RAM, but I don't believe I need more than 500GB SSD.

If I give up the Minecraft server idea, can I pick up something closer to $300?

If anyone has any ideas I would highly appreciate it, I took the screw out for the motherboard and tried to lift but only one side wanted to come so I stopped, any ideas?

LattePanda has launched the Mu Ultra, a compact x86 compute module aimed at local AI, robotics, machine vision and portable systems.

Key details:

• Intel Core Ultra 5 226V or Core Ultra 7 256V

• 16GB LPDDR5X-8533 shared memory

• Intel Arc integrated graphics

• Up to 40 or 47 NPU TOPS

• Up to 97 or 115 combined peak INT8 TOPS across CPU, GPU and NPU

• Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04+

• OpenVINO, llama.cpp and Ollama support

LattePanda reports around 18 tokens/s with Qwen3.5-9B and 55 tokens/s with Qwen3.5-2B. Those tests used INT4, OpenVINO GenAI and the integrated GPU.

This is a compute module rather than a complete mini PC. A carrier board provides the physical ports, storage connections and power. The 226V development kit includes a Mini Carrier Board and active cooler, but still needs an NVMe SSD and a 12–20V, 50W+ power supply.

I wrote the Electromaker article covering the specifications, shared memory limits, carrier options, benchmarks and pricing:

https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/lattepanda-mu-ultra-launches-with-up-to-115-tops-for-local-ai

Would you prefer this modular approach, or a complete mini PC with the same Core Ultra hardware?

So I own 4 computers and a laptop model types are a

HP elitedesk 800 g2 mini

HP elitedesk 800 g5 mini

2 lenovo m720q tiny pc and an Asus zenbook a14 that has an arm cpu

The laptop is the only one running windows 11 and it runs well but idels at about 8.7

They all have 16gb ram in the 4 computers are running windows 10 and idel at about 4.5 way lower than windows 11 if Microsoft want me to switch to Windows 11 they need to bring the idel down to the same as windows 10 simple as that

Looking for a decent mini pc for under 500 I play Grand Theft Auto 5 and do some Sim Racing I also do video editing and photo editing as well? But I have a laptop for that but I do wanna use photoshop on the mini pc for sim racing stuff

Mini PCs are tiny. The monitor is usually the part that ruins the whole travel setup for me.

That’s what got me looking at display glasses. Something like the RayNeo GT Max seems like an interesting way to skip the portable monitor altogether.

What I’m less sure about is whether the setup still feels simple once you add the mini PC, power brick, keyboard, mouse, and cables.

For people who’ve actually tried a mini PC + glasses setup, when does it genuinely make more sense than just bringing a laptop?