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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Benchmarking the Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC

November 26, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. I put it through various benchmark tests

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Minisforum UM890 Pro

Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series

November 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

The Minisforum UM890 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 8945HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.

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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Dual Booting Bluetooth Issues

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

Having an issue with Bluetooth when dual booting? I look at an easy fix for the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC.

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Linux at Home - Circuit Design with Linux

The Tradeoff between Silence and Power with Mini PCs

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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BOSGAME M4 Plus

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC: AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Power Consumption

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.

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ASROCK NUC BOX-255H Running Linux

Survey of Image Upscaling Tools on the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H

October 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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BOSGAME M4 Plus

Benchmarking the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC

October 8, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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BOSGAME M4 Plus

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: Introduction to the Series

October 6, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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Minisforum AI X1 Pro

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Gerbil – Run Large Language Models Locally

September 24, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

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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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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