Fan noise can ruin my enjoyment of using a computer. In this article I report my findings on three modern mini PCs.
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Category: Reviews
Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch: Upgrading to Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 is the first release of Ubuntu Touch that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, a major upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04.
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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores, 16 threads and is competitive against newer processors from AMD and Intel.
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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption
I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Survey of Image Upscaling Tools on the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H
Linux has lots of software with upscaling functionality, some of which offers a wider range of features than the GIMP AI plugin.
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Ubuntu 25.10
I look at a few issues I’ve experienced when upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Music Player
Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.
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Benchmarking the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC
The BOSGAME M4 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with integrated Radeon 780M. I put it through various benchmark tests.
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Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 4D single-board computer.
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BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Introduction to the Series
The BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC is a powerful computer based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
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hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility
hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.
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Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7A.
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ChessMD – lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool
ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents
Gaia is open source software designed for the quick setup and execution of generative AI applications on local PC hardware.
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AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Introduction
This blog documents my adventures with using the NPU present in the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in Linux.
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Euphonica – MPD client with delusions of grandeur
Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Gerbil – Run Large Language Models Locally
Gerbil is a desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally. The software is powered by KoboldCpp, a fork of llama.cpp.
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Benchmarking the Radxa Cubie A7A Single Board Computer
For this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, with 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.
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Benchmarking the Radxa ROCK 4D Single Board Computer
For this article in the series I put the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
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