When I wanted to get more serious about backing up my family’s data, I bought a refurbished Mac Mini and set it running headless in my closet. It’s right for me.

The MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG is a compact, understated design, providing an Intel Core Ultra 9 386H in a tiny desktop. It’s easy to upgrade and relatively quiet but could do with a few more ports at the back and a more attractive price.

Mini PC specialist Geekom has updated its A9 Max design with AMD’s latest mobile silicon. The incremental improvements of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX470 are supported by a revamped Ice Blast 3.0 cooling solution with larger fan and all copper heatpipes in a sleek 0.9L chassis.

The Arctic Senza AI 370 is a fanless mini PC designed to mount under your desk. Everyday performance isn’t held back by the lack of active cooling, and its soldered dual-channel 32GB LPDDR5X-8000 is appreciated during the RAM shortages. The meager front panel I/O is the only major drawback to the design.

Kamrui’s H1 and Hyper H2 mini-PCs go on sale at Amazon with discounts up to 25%.

Valve’s official account on Reddit has responded to RLOD victims with simple step-by-step instructions to get any affected Steam Machine up and running again.

Mini PC specialist Geekom has stuffed its Amazon webstore with a multitude of diminutive computers with discounts as deep as 34% off.

GMKtec’s dramatically redesigned EVO-X3 ‘Strix Halo’ Mini PC gets Lisa Su’s signature of approval.

Powered by the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor and 128GB of unified memory, AMD’s developer kit arrives as a direct competitor to Nvidia’s DGX Spark, which recently saw a price increase to $4,699.
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Aoostar’s Maco, G-Flip, and Gem12 Max mini-PCs go on sale for a limited time on AliExpress with free shipping from a local U.S. warehouse.
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