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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Jan – Chat with AI without privacy concerns

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.

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ROCK 4D

Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Power Consumption

September 10, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: GIMP AI Plugins

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I’m exploring GIMP AI plugins for the Arc 140T. These provide a set of OpenVINO based plugins that add AI features to GIMP.

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Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Linux Desktop Applications

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Phone, Reviews

Libertine is a confined sandbox where you can install deb-packaged desktop-based Ubuntu applications on the Volla Quintus.

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Music sketch

mtoc – visually-rich music player and library browser

September 5, 2025 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Benchmarking the Minisforum AI X1 Pro

September 4, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M.

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K100

Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Power Consumption

September 3, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, NAS, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS.

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Smartphone

Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Pre-installed apps

September 2, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Reviews

I explore the apps already present on the Volla Phone Quintus, a premium smartphone running Ubuntu Touch.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Introduction to the Series

September 1, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The machine has the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with integrated Radeon 890M. This is no ordinary processor and no ordinary integrated GPU.

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