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MaxSun is preparing its new MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) system, with an array of all-Intel hardware with up to the Core Ultra 9 285HX and dual Arc Pro B60 GPUs.

The new MaxSun Mini Station is a new MoDT system that is powered by Intel's new Core Ultra 200HX series CPUs, with the new Mini Station packing up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX processor, and dual Arc Pro B60 GPUs. The CPUs are pre-installed onto the motherboard, so there will be no user upgrades down the path.

There was a demo system of MaxSun's new Mini Station PC presented at the Bilibili World 2025, showcasing dual Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. The demo system was powered by Arc Pro B60 Milestone graphics cards, which look very similar to the Arc B580 gaming graphics cards.

NVIDIA is preparing to launch its new DGX Spark, a new mini supercomputer with a huge 1000 TOPS of AI workload power and a cost of $4000.

In a new report from Taiwan Economic Daily, we're hearing that NVIDIA is preparing its new DGX Spark mini supercomputer for a retail launch this month, with AIB partners like ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE to soon introduce their own DGX Spark mini supercomputer to the market.

Inside, the new DGX Spark uses NVIDIA's new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which has been optimized into a desktop form factor. NVIDIA's new GB10 features a powerful NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with fifth-generation Tensor Cores and FP4 support, with 1000 TOPS of AI compute power for fine-tuning and inference with the latest AI reasoning models, including the NVIDIA Cosmos Reason world foundation model and NVIDIA GR00T N1 robot foundation model.

UPDATE - ASUS let us know that the GX10 will be announced on July 22, but it won't be available then. The release of the product will come at a later date.

ASUS has confirmed that its new AI supercomputer, the Ascent GX10, will be launching on July 22. The new ASUS Ascent GX10 is powered by NVIDIA's new GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip, and acts as a powerful AI workstation that sits on your desk.

The new ASUS Ascent GX10 is a small Mini-PC workstation that is tailored towards AI development and inference workloads, packing NVIDIA's new Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU inside of a unified GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. The Ascent GX10 will be configured with 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, PCIe Gen5 connectivity, NVMe SSD, and a custom cooling solution.

AOOSTAR has officially teased its new NEX395 Mini-PC system powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU.

The upcoming AOOSTAR NEX395 Mini-PC has quite an interesting design that features a thinner, longer chassis that is more of a compact rectangle than other Mini-PCs powered by the powerful new Strix Halo APU. The company teases that it's using a dual-fan cooling system that should help cool the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor inside, but we can't see much of that thermal system from the single image shown.

On the I/O side of things, the new AOOSTAR NEX395 Mini-PC features a single USB-C port on the front, while on the rear we have DisplayPort, an HDMI port, 4 x USB-A 2.0 ports, another USB-C port, and two RJ45 ethernet ports.

A user has created his own SFF system using the Framework modular PC, which is powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, into a 7.5L fanless chassis, check it out:

The custom fanless project was crafted by SFF Network member "TheJiral" who called it the Monochrome 2, who used Framework's new modular Desktop PC, which TheJiral used as the building blocks of his custom SFF system. The Framework Desktop Motherboard is powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, which TheJiral had paired with 64GB of RAM.

This was a personal passion project by TheJiral, who built the 7.5L fanless chassis ahead of time before the Framework Desktop Motherboard even arrived. AMD's new Strix Halo APU features a 120W TDP, but TheJiral made sure to over- compensate with 140W of cooling capacity, ready for the 16C/32T chip to be maxed out at all times, but run fine passively cooled.

Abee is a company most people haven't heard of, but they're reportedly working on a new Mini-PC AI system that packs AMD's new flagship Strix Halo APU. Check it out:

The new Abee AI Station features AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU which packs 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power at up to 5.1GHz, with the full 128GB of RAM and powerful RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU at up to 2.9GHz.

Interestingly, the new Abee AI Station packs a built-in liquid cooling solution, and a built-in power supply. The new Mini-PC has up to 96GB of RAM allocated to the Radeon 8060S, meaning that not only is it a Mini-PC AI system, but a powerful gaming system between the 16C/32T CPU and 40 CUs of RDNA 3.5-powered Radeon 8060S graphics.

The new COLORFUL SMART 900 AI Mini PC boasts a sleek industrial design and features a 4-liter form factor, making it a Mini PC with some seriously impressive hardware and capabilities. Powered by the new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, with 16 cores, 32 threads, and clock speeds hitting 5.1 GHz, the APU also features a powerful NPU and Radeon 8060S graphics.

The NPU is capable of delivering up to 50 TOPS of AI performance for generative workloads, which is why COLORFUL is marketing the device toward students and professionals. The unit's size might be small, but you're looking at desktop-class performance in a compact form factor.

The integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, based on the RDNA 3.5 architecture, features 40 Compute Units, a higher CU count than discrete GPUs like the new Radeon RX 9060 XT. The GPU performance of the COLORFUL SMART 900 AI Mini PC will rival that of discrete mobile graphics, making it a powerful yet compact PC gaming device that is smaller than a console.

ASUS has officially announced its ROG NUC 2025 Mini-PC which has been in the headlines for months now, with some high-end hardware inside with up to the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor and NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU. Check it out:

The company offers its new ROG NUC 2025 with not one, but four GPU options including the RTX 5080 Laptop GPU, RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, RTX 5070 Laptop GPU, and finally, the RTX 5060 Laptop GPU. CPU-wise, ASUS offers two different CPU variants with the Core Ultra 9 275HX and Core Ultra 7 255HX, both based on Arrow Lake-HX.

ASUS supports up to 96GB of DDR5-6400 memory inside of the ROG NUC 2025, while the thermal system includes a triple-fan cooling design and dual vapor chambers for the CPU and GPU. There's support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4, but unfortunately, we don't have any Thunderbolt 5 connectivity.

MSI has just announced the perfect present for the Toy Story fan in your life, with a limited edition MAG PANO Toy Story Edition PC bundle with components themed from Pixar's huge Toy Story franchise.

Inside, we've got custom Toy Story-themed components including a themed chassis, motherboard, power supply, AIO cooler, and graphics card. These custom MSI components themed with Toy Story include the MSI PANO 110R case, RTX 5070 Gaming Trio GPU, Z890 Gaming Plus motherboard, 850W MAG A850GL power supply, and MAG CORELIQUID AIO cooler.

Each of the custom components is themed after the major Toy Story characters or objects from the first two Toy Story movies, where we've got a Woody-themed Z890 Gaming Plus motherboard, which is covered in heatsinks using Woody's iconic trademark yellow and cow-print colors, plus the CMOS battery has Lenny the Binoculars hiding the battery itself.

PELADN is a brand you might not have heard of, but it has just introduced its new Mini-PC system powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU. Check it out:

The company is making just a single model of its new PELADN Y01 small form factor system which is powered by AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU that features 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, and a powerful Radeon 8060S integrated GPU that is based on the RDNA 3.5 GPU architecture with 40 Compute Units.

Strix Halo features three TDP modes: 55W, 85W, and 120W, but we don't know how you'll select between these TDPs. Inside, there's also up to 128GB of LPDDR5-8000 memory ready for AI workloads, content creation, gaming, and everything in between.

Apple has said that a "very small percentage" of Mac mini computers with M2 chips suffer from a fault that means they don't power on, while letting affected users know how they can get a free repair.

This is the compact computer which was launched in 2023 and Apple clarifies that affected PCs were manufactured between June 16 to November 23 in 2024.

If you've got a Mac mini M2 and it's no longer coming on when you hit the power, you can use Apple's serial number checker (as flagged by Apple Insider) to see if your device is part of the free repair program.

HP announced a few different workstation-focused laptops and Mini-PCs using AMD's new flagship Strix Halo APU, with a few of them on the market in laptop form, but now the HP Z2 Mini G1a workstation Mini-PC has launched with the new Strix Halo APU and it's available in the UK right now.

The HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1 laptop launched a few months ago with AMD's new Strix Halo APU, but now the company has its new Z2 Mini G1a workstation Mini-PC that packs more choices of AMD's new Strix Halo APUs, up to the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip.

HP offers its new Z2 Mini G1a with a flagship spec option that offers the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 "Strix Halo" APU, with a huge 128GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, and 2TB Gen4 SSD. The Strix Halo APU includes an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated graphics. HP lists this on its UK website for £2,663.99, which works out to around $5079 USD or so.

GEEKOM has partnered with TweakTown to offer a great deal on the powerful GEEKOM Mini IT12 2025 Edition Mini PC. It has a 12th-gen Intel Core i7-1280P processor, 32GB of dual-channel DDR4 3200 MHz memory, and 1TB of fast PCIe Gen4 SSD storage.

The GEEKOM Mini IT12 2025 Edition Mini PC is perfect for those looking for a super-efficient plug-and-play performer. Its 12th-gen Intel Core i7-1280P processor, featuring 14 Cores, 20 Threads, 24MB of Cache, and a max clock speed of 4.8 GHz, only draws 28W of power, making it an ideal energy-efficient PC. It comes with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed, too, so you'll be up and running before you know it.

Whether you're looking for a compact and portable home office solution, a studio companion ready for your Adobe-powered dreams, a home theatre system that can sit snuggly below a TV, or a home console ready for 1080p gaming, the GEEKOM Mini IT12 2025 Edition Mini PC is one of the best value Mini PCs out there.

This is something you don't see every day: a custom gaming PC built into a graphics card... introducing CherryTree's new GeeFarce RTX 5027 POS. Check it out:

The folks over at GamersNexus have one in the flesh and give it the teardown process, revealing that the custom PC building shop and its new GeeFarce RTX 5027 POS (what a name) isn't something you can purchase. It's most likely the result of a customer request for a specific-themed custom PC and not something that is mass-produced.

Inside, the GeeFarce RTX 5027 POS has a PCB with the system on it, and the graphics card thermal solution as its cooling system. Even though the system arrives with a PCIe slot, you couldn't plug it into a system and use it (as a second PC plugged into your PCIe slot on your motherboard) as there are no PCIe power routing cables or an 8-pin PCIe power connector that would work like a regular PC.

Dell has just announced that its gaming brand Alienware has teamed with LEGO for a new custom Alienware Area-51 Kit, made with authentic Lego bricks. Check it out:

Alienware says that its new Area-51 kit will start appearing in the Alienware Arena Marketplace of the country yo resize, where you can use your ARP rewards points to obtain the new Lego PC kit. The company says that it's starting its new Alienware Area-51 Desktop as the "test subject" with the "hopes to expand if we see ya'll enjoy the product and redeeming at a high rate".

Alienware explains on its website: "Starting today, you should start to see these kits appear within the Alienware Arena Marketplace of the country you reside, to utilize that hard earned ARP in more ways! We're starting with our New Alienware Area-51 Desktop as the test subject with hopes to expand if we see y'all enjoy the product and redeeming at a high rate. Our goal with this kit was to continue providing an alternate ARP reward, on top of what we have seen in the past to as many as we can".

COLORFUL has just launched its new SMART 900 Mini-PC which packs AMD's new flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, and more. Check it out:

The new COLORFUL SMART 900 Mini-PC is actually a "Mini AI PC" (it's 2025, everything is AI now, you know it, I know it, we all know it). Inside, the SMART 900 Mini-PC features AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU which bursts out of the gate with 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, up to 96GB of RAM, and an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU.

As for the design, COLORFUL is using a 4-liter high-quality anodized aluminum chassis for its new SMART 900 Mini-PC, with the Chinese company saying that its new Mini-PC system has "excellent" heat dissipation, explaining that COLORFUL takes "advantage of the metal body-ensuring that the system can maintain a low operating temperature and a relatively reasonable noise level under high load".

GIGABYTE has just introduced its new AI TOP 500 TRX50 desktop AI powerhouse PC, packing up to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX processor, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, and 768GB of DDR5 memory... all ready for AI workloads, and everything in between.

At the heart of the new GIGABYTE AI TOP 500 system is the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO series processors, offering up to 24 cores and 48 threads of CPU power, paired with a TRX50 AI TOP motherboard. The AI TOP 500 TRX50 desktop PC supports up to 768GB of ultra-fast DDR5 RDIMM memory, with storage assisted by AI-ready SSDs including a 1TB AI TOP 100E cache drive with up to 150x TBW (total bytes written) compared to consumer-level SSDs, meaning the AI TOP 500 system is ready for high durability under constant read/write workloads.

GIGABYTE keeps the AI TOP 500 TRX50 system with its Ryzen Threadripper PRO processor nice and cool with its in-house AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 AIO liquid cooler, all housed inside the striking AI TOP chassis (E-ATX case measuring 594 x 336 x 584 mm (H x W x D) and powered by a monster 1600W 80 PLUS Platinum-certified that sees clean and stable energy flowing to multiple GPU configurations, and extended system uptime says GIGABYTE.

NVIDIA has reportedly told its OEM partners to begin shipping its DGX Spark AI supercomputers in July, with AIB partners to jump head-first into the new business opportunity according to the latest reports.

In a new report from UDN, we're hearing that NVIDIA's new DGX Spark system will be joined by the company's other personal AI supercomputer -- the DGX Station -- to be launched later this year. UDN says that analysts are "optimistic" that NVIDIA's personal AI supercomputers are going to be launched one after another, which will help boost Q3 2025 performance of the related suppliers.

These new AI systems enable AI developers, researchers, data scientists, and students to prototype, fine-tune, and inference large models on desktops. NVIDIA says that users can run these models locally or deploy them on NVIDIA DGX Cloud or any other accelerated cloud or data center infrastructure.

Lenovo is preparing a new AI Mini-PC powered by AMD's new Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU, offering up some fantastic gaming performance inside of a smaller form factor system.

Inside, we're to expect Lenovo's new LCFC AI Mini-PC to be powered by the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" APU which offers 16 cores and 32 threads of Zen 5 processing power, with an RDNA 3.5-based Radeon 8060S integrated GPU with 40 Compute Units.

Alongside the Strix Halo APU, the new Lenovo LCFC AI Mini-PC will feature dual Gen4 SSD slots for super-fast storage, and a rather large (and rather awesome inside of a Mini-PC) amount of memory: with 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 RAM inside. Lenovo's new LCFC AI Mini-PC system features a 1GbE ethernet port as well as Wi-Fi (with no WiFi 6 listed).

As you may be aware, Apple's desktop OS may be renamed - it could be macOS 26, rather than macOS 16 - but whatever the name will be, rumor has it that the fresh version won't be compatible with some relatively recent Macs.

Apple Insider reports (and take this with the usual caution reserved for anything filtering down from the rumor mill) that pre-release builds of macOS 26 require a MacBook Pro 2019 or later, or a MacBook Air M1 or better. With an iMac, you'll need a 2020 or later model to be good to go with the new take on macOS.

This means that models as recent as the iMac from 2019 may be ruled out in the compatibility stakes, or MacBook Pro laptops from 2018. Moreover, the MacBook Air with Intel CPU from 2020 is also left out in the cold in theory.