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Minisforum Brings Power-Packed Mini-PCs to Computex 2024

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Minisforum consistently impressed us with its bold small footprint computing solutions over the years, and they've taken things a level up this Computex. Imagine a docking station on which you installed a graphics card like you'd slot in an NES cartridge. That's the Minisforum DEG1 OCulink graphics docking station. The dock resembles an 8-bit era Atari. You install a graphics card vertically on its PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot (electrical Gen 4 x4), and connect 12 V power from the dock to the card (12V-2x6 and 3x 8-pin supported). The dock connects to the host machine over Oculink (Gen 4 x4).

The R3GAF is a pre-built external GPU based on the AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT. It connects to the host over Oculink, and uses an internap power supply to drive the card, with a configured power limit of 120 W. Besides the GPU's connectivity, the dock puts out a trio pf 5 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports. Next up, is a Thunderbolt 4 (40 Gbps) dock that puts out two downstream Thunderbolt ports, a handful USB-C ports, an internal M.2 slot, card reader, and DisplayPort output demuxed from the Thunderbolt uplink.



The AtomMan G7 Ti is a slender mini desktop powered by an Intel Core i9-14900HX mobile processor, with GeForce RTX 4070 graphics, and DDR5 SO-DIMM memory. Storage is from two M.2-2280 slots, each with Gen 4 x4 wiring. The AtomMan X7 Pt is a cube-shaped mini PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS "Hawk Point" processor with a 16 TOPS NPU, DDR5 SO-DIMM memory, and a pair of M.2-2280 Gen 4 slots for storage. Besides Most modern connectivity, the X7 Pt puts out an Oculink connector, which should come useful if you're pairing it with any of the above eGPU docks. Minisforum has also wired out two 40 Gbps USB4 ports from the "Hawk Point" SoC.



The AtomMan G7 Pt is powered by the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX "Dragon Range" mobile processor, with Radeon RX 7600M XT discrete graphics, AMD Advantage desktop certification, an upgraded Cold Wave Pro cooling solution, and support for PCIe Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSDs. Lastly, there's the AtomMan X7 Ti, powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H "Meteor Lake" processor featuring a 12 TOPS NPU, DDR5 SO-DIMM memory, faster Wi-Fi 7 + Bluetooth 5.4 connectivity; and a power footprint of just 120 W.

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I always look forward to Mini's product announcements, they have the "slick & cool" thing down pat IMHO...while also incorporating parts that most folks would find useful into the various small form factors, with this round being no exception...you go Minis :)
 
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