MiniPCs

I have a laptop nearing the end of its life with (what I thought was) a good cpu/ram and an integrated graphics card. It was fine at running a DAW but it couldn't run 10 year old games at a non fucky framerate. I would include its details but I didn't memorize them and don't have access to it right now.

I'm looking at replacing it with a minipc because laptops are getting more user hostile but I like the idea of having something I can move around occasionally. So I look on the reddit spreadsheet, and I'm struggling because there often seems to be a gap between the listed specs on the spreadsheet and the actual thing itself (ie "this thing has this gpu" vs "this thing has a slot for you to install a gpu").

I absolutely need something that will run Reaper or an equivalent well with a billion tracks and add ons at the same time. I would very much like to run ten year old games reliably at a good framerate. And if possible I'd like to badly run a local ai which I understand basically requires a decent standalone gpu, but it isn't that important because they're a dumb toy that has no actual use. Is there a minipc that I can buy prebuilt that does that, and if not how close can I get? I don't know enough about hardware to answer my own question with the spreadsheet sorry.

Looking for advice on a good Mini PC for a family Minecraft server. 64 GB, SSD, budget is $400. Amazon is preferred, because I have award credits from my job. I'm happy to assemble things myself if that's more cost effective.

The new $599 M4 Mac Mini is really good. In more than one way.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24386329

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/27805966

hi, i want to buy mini pc cause i like its size and i want to play football manager 24 but is it possible that i play many hours maybe 8 daily. are they practical , I read they overheat. Also Im multitasker I could open 2 browsers each one with like 20 tabs and excel with 10 sheets. The sheet not always but the browsers always also I could play music while browsing. My budget is 500-600$.

**the imporant question is mini pc practical for my need, then do you suggest one ** thanks in advance

I'm a sucker for new form factors

The Beelink SER8, launched last month in China, is now available globally. This mini PC packs the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, and a starting price of $749, which comes with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. There's also a barebones version from MiniXPC at $499.99.

The impressive bit is that SER8 supports up to 256 GB(!) of DDR5 RAM running in dual-channel at 5600 MHz. This mini PC also uses a low-noise (32dB) dust-proof design, and can deliver up to 65 watts of performance.

The 70W TDP boost is a decent improvement from the UM790 Pro's 35W. It is also expected that the XTX version won't have any of the fan issues that plagued the Pro version, if the 780 XTX is any indicator.