Minisforum UM690L Slim receives early discount below $400 with powerful AMD Ryzen APU
Minisforum has introduced plenty of new mini-PCs lately, whether that be the G1 gaming series, the MS-A2 or the N5 Pro. The company is also preparing to start shipping the UM690L Slim, which it should start sending out by the end of this month.
To recap, the UM690L Slim utilises AMD's older Rembrandt-H series rather than newer alternatives like Strix Point or Strix Halo. Specifically, the UM690L Slim comes only with the Ryzen 9 6900HX, a 45 W APU that combines 8 Zen 3+ CPU cores with a Radeon 680M iGPU. While now an older APU, the Ryzen 9 6900HX trails the much newer Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 by less than 20% in our benchmarks.
The age of the Ryzen 9 6900HX is reflected in the cost of the UM690L Slim too. At the time of writing, Minisforum is offering the mini-PC for £389 in the UK with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage at an 18.7% discount from its £479 MSRP. Meanwhile, the same configuration sells for €449 with a 22.5% launch discount applied in Europe; dropping to 16 GB of RAM reduces the machine's price to €419.
The UM690L Slim currently starts at $387.90 with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage too, albeit only on Amazon US for the time being. The mini-PC packs plenty of other components into its 0.8-litre case size as well, including dual M.2 2280 slots, SO-DIMM slots for up to 32 GB LPDDDR5 RAM clocked at 6,400 MT/s and about a dozen ports. Please see Minisforum's website for more details.
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