AOOSTAR GEM10 370 pre-order price suggests Strix Point mini PCs won't be affordable

AOOSTAR made the GEM10 370 official a week ago, and it's one of the first Strix Point mini PCs. It packs the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, the current top-end CPU in the lineup. Now, while it is good to see this performance-focused CPU with Radeon 890M coming to mini PC, it seems that these compact computers won't be affordable.

More specifically, AOOSTAR has started to take pre-orders for the GEM10 370 in China, and the variant with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage has an initial price of CNY 5,699, which converts to around $808. Of course, that is still cheaper than the most affordable Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 laptop you can currently buy, which happens to be the ProArt PX13 with RTX 4050 at $1,699.99.

However, compared to some of the top-end Hawk Point or Phoenix Point mini PCs, this ~$808 pre-order tag for the GEM10 370 is pricey. For reference, you can currently get the Geekom AE7 with Ryzen 9 7940HS, 32 GB of RAM, and 1 TB for $699. Another thing to note is that the ~$808 tag is a pre-order price, and the retail tag will be much higher.

Moreover, the Chinese prices are generally lower than those of the international units. So, it's likely that the exact configuration of the AOOSTAR GEM10 370 will go for around $1,000 or higher in the global market. But again, these are prices for the very early models of the Strix Point mini PCs, and it's possible that we will see a bit more affordable options getting announced in the coming days.