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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews, Scientific

Let’s start with ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI. I install ROCm, ComfyUI and a useful model manager.

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Machine Learning

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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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

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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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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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Intel Core Ultra 7 Processor 255H

August 27, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The NUC BOX-255H has the mobile/embedded class 15th generation Intel Core 7 255H processor, based on the Arrow Lake architecture.

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K100

Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Introduction to the Series

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, NAS, Reviews

The Aiffro K100 is an All-SSD NAS with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe slots. The machine retails for around £227.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Power Consumption

August 15, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Benchmarking the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

August 13, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to the series

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

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC: Power Consumption

July 31, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Firefly AIBOX-358SS fanless PC.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Benchmarking the Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC

July 28, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I benchmark the Firefly AIBOX-3588S and compare it to single board computers (both ARM and RISC-V) as well as an Intel N100 Mini PC.

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Firefly AIBOX 3588S

Firefly AIBOX-3588S Embedded Fanless PC Running Linux – Introduction

July 21, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the Firefly AIBOX 3588S embedded fanless ARM-based mini PC.

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SunFounder Pironman 5 NVMe Mini PC Case Review

May 15, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The SunFounder Pironman 5 case transforms the Raspberry Pi 5 into a beautiful desktop mini PC with optional NMVe storage.

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DreamQuest N100 Mini PC

DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks

November 26, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC with Ubuntu 24.10.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Benchmarks

July 29, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated.

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DreamQuest with Ubuntu

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction

July 24, 2024 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

DreamQuest N95 Mini PC is a well specified computer. This is a multi-article looking at this computer from a Linux perspective.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: VirtualBox Performance

May 6, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

For this article we’re looking at the FIREBAT from a VirtualBox perspective. We investigate how well virtual machines run on this Mini PC.

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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Installing and Configuring Rhino Linux

May 1, 2024 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

We explore installing and configuring Rhino Linux on the FIREBAT. Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu-based distribution

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