Machenike: New Asus ROG NUC rival launching soon with up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070
Machenike has returned with a new gaming-focused mini-PC. To recap, the company kicked off the year before introducing a cheaper version of its GTS mini-PC. Shortly afterwards, it started selling the same mini-PC globally through Minixpc.
Now, it has announced a new alternative to the ROG NUC 2025 (curr. $1,749 on Amazon) in China. Roughly translating as the Dawn Gaming Mini PC, the new release even sits vertically like Asus' popular mini-PC. Likewise, Machenike plans to offer the Dawn Gaming Mini PC with Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5060 and GeForce RTX 5070 laptop GPUs.
However, the Dawn Gaming Mini PC will not be configurable with the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and GeForce RTX 5080, though. Also, the Dawn Gaming Mini PC features Intel's Raptor Lake HX platform rather than newer Arrow Lake HX alternatives to match the ROG NUC 2025.
Specifically, the Dawn Gaming Mini PC will start at CNY 13,999 (~$2,030) with a Core i7-14700HX and a GeForce RTX 5060. Alternatively, Machenike will Core i9-14900HX versions with the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 for CNY 14,999 (~$2,175) and CNY 15,999 (~$2,320), respectively. All configurations will be available in China from March 22 with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and 1 TB of PCIe 4.0 storage. Machenike has not shared global release details yet.
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