New compact mini PC arrives with 16 GB RAM and dual 2.5G Ethernet
Thunderobot, a Chinese brand specializing in mini PCs and gaming laptops, has launched the Mix Neo in the country, Featuring an Intel Lunar Lake CPU, the compact mini PC should be able to promise decent performance.
To be precise, the Mix Neo mini PC packs the Intel Core Ultra 7 256V chip featuring an 8-core, 8-thread setup consisting of four Lion Cove P-cores and four Skymont E-cores.
Single-threaded performance is on par with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 APU, and multithreaded performance should be a roughly 2 or 3% behind the Ryzen AI 5 435 APU. In other words, most moderately intensive workloads should be perfectly doable on the system.
A healthy 16 GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM is on offer, which is not user-upgradeable. Storage is handled by an M.2 2280 (PCIe 3.0) slot, which can be pre-configured with 512 GB or 1 TB SSDs.
The I/O on offer has been detailed below:
- Dual USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, dual USB 2.0 Type-A
- Single USB4
- HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4
- Dual 2.5G Ethernet
- WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4
Weighing in at just around 480 grams or roughly 1.05 lbs, the Mix Neo mini PC measures 128 x 128 x 53.5 cm or roughly 5.03 x 5.03 x 2.11 inches.
There are no discrete GPUs on offer, and the mini PC relies solely on the potent Arc 140V iGPU for graphical needs. Raw performance, according to our database, should be a few percentage points ahed of the AMD Radeon 780M iGPU. Clearly, some lightweight gaming and other non-intensive GPU-based workloads should be doable on the system.
Pricing and availability
The Mix Neo mini PC is already available for purchase via JD.com, priced at 3,824.15 Yuan or roughly $574. This variant ships with 16 GB RAM and a 512 GB SSD.
On the other hand, the SKU with twice the storage is available at a price of 4,249.15 Yuan or roughly $636.
Thunderobot does have a pretty good international presence, making the eventual global rollout of the Mix Neo quite probable.
That said, folks who require a new mini PC right away can check out the more powerful GMKtec M6 Ultra, currently available for $499.99 on Amazon.
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