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Chris Harper - Sun, Jan 11, 2026
At CES 2026, AMD gave us a hands-on look at its new mini PC, the Ryzen AI Halo. As its name implies, the AMD Ryzen AI Halo is built around AMD's current top-of-the-line APU, the Strix Halo-based Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The Ryzen AI Max+ 395...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Jan 07, 2026
MSI is joining the modern NUC race and showing off one of the first Intel Panther Lake mini PCs of its kind at CES 2026. Meet the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, the latest in MSI's Cubi NUC AI+ series, which you can outfit with up to an Intel Core...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 02, 2026
One of the most iconic gaming consoles of all time is the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) that released in the United States way back in 1985. Now a little over 40 years later, Acemagic is using the original NES as inspiration...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Dec 18, 2025
MSECore's latest small form factor system, the MV10 Mini PC, is a compact computing beast. The diminutive machine features four cooling fans to manage the heat from an Intel Core i9-14900F and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, along with...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 26, 2025
Minisforum has carved out a niche in the mini PC market and its latest offering, the AtomMan G1 Pro, is another enticing compact system aimed at gamers. The svelte system pairs an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX processor with a "desktop grade" GeForce...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 12, 2025
There is a lot of buzz around Apple's Mac mini devices (deservedly so), but if you're if you're a Windows person and are in the market for a potent mini PC, there is a heck of a good deal available on an AMD Ryzen-powered system right now...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Oct 31, 2025
If you've been on the fence about whether to buy a mini PC now or wait until Black Friday sales roll into view, you may want to consider taking the plunge. Why is that? Minisforum, one of the most active participants in the mini PC space...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 21, 2025
Zotac has managed to stuff a desktop-class GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of GDDR7 inside a tiny 2.65-liter chassis. In doing so, Zotac's refreshed Zbox Magnus EN for 2025 the world's smallest PC to feature a desktop GeForce RTX 50 series...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Oct 01, 2025
A new and unique crowdfunded mini PC project is making waves thanks to its desktop-class components and fishtank-style design—meet the Wee Beastie Super Mini Gaming PC. Its "Super Mini" fishtank design comes in at a footprint of just 4.75...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Sep 03, 2025
Acer is rolling out a new workstation for serious AI work, and it won't take up a lot of space on your desk. It's new Veriton GN100 AI Mini Workstation is, as the name implies, a compact mini PC that looks more like a traditional NUC than...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Aug 23, 2025
We love tiny Chinese system vendors here at HotHardware. Companies like Ayaneo, Beelink, Geekom, and GPD make some wild, wonderful, and wacky hardware that's just fun to play with because they often push the boundaries of what's possible...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 30, 2025
One of the first mini PC devices to sport AMD's Strix Halo hardware inside has landed on U.S. soil, or at least it soon will. That would be GMKtec's EVO-X2 mini PC. If that sound familiar, it's because we wrote about this same NUC-sized...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Apr 03, 2025
Microsoft is now accepting orders for the Windows 365 Link device it announced at its Ignite conference back in November. The thin client system is Microsoft's first cloud PC device built specifically to securely connect to Windows 365 in...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Mar 14, 2025
When it comes to the mini PC form factor, these convenient little boxes typically pack some impressive hardware (these days), with the only requirement that you need to add your own external peripherals (unless it's a barebones, which...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 06, 2025
Minisforum is making quite the name for itself in the compact PC space, served primarily by an extensive (and ever-growing) range of mini PCs, but also tiny motherboards like its BD795i SE we wrote about earlier this week. Keeping the...
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Paul Lilly - Sat, Jan 25, 2025
We've come a long way since the days when hulking PC towers were both the norm and a symbol of how much power you wielded on your desktop. In the modern era, manufacturers are able to cram quite a bit of computing muscle inside a...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jan 10, 2025
At this point, ASUS is the main company keeping Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) branding alive, after Intel decided a year and a half ago to stop making its own NUCs and instead adopt a licensing model. Not only did ASUS pounce, but...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Nov 05, 2024
The original Wii console (not to be confused with the Wii U) is one of the most popular game consoles of all time, and Nintendo's fourth-best selling console ever at 101.63 million units, trailing only the Game Boy (118.69 million units)...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 30, 2024
Remember when Minisforum teased a tiny Zen 5 titan last month? Now several weeks later, we not only have confirmation on the full set of specifications, but also an introductory discount that shaves $300 off the MSRP on its EliteMini AI370...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Oct 22, 2024
I come from a generation where hulking computer cases were a serious flex—it suggested some seriously powerful hardware resided inside. They still can be a flex, but there's been a definite shift (generally speaking) towards more compact...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 19, 2024
Minisforum is far from a stranger to the mini PC scene, and is often out there employing the latest silicon in its miniaturized systems. That isn't about to change. To the contrary, the company has taken to Weibo, a massive social media...
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Ben Enos - Tue, Sep 10, 2024
As if mini PCs with desktop processors and built-in touch screens weren't crazy enough, here comes FEVM with a mini PC that could feature a GeForce RTX 4090M GPU. That’s right, while it’s not official yet, Redditor “mentalsojin2” has done...
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