You should buy the Minisforum AI X1 Pro-470 if: You want a slimline mini PC with expandability You want OCuLink for eGPU use You have a home lab You should NOT buy the Minisforum AI X1 Pro-470 if: You prefer Intel CPUs You want more USB ports You need a discrete graphics chip The Minisforum AI X1 Pro-470 has fixed some of the issues we had with the last iteration of this machine, but it has regressed in performance. That said, it's still got enough kick for daily tasks, and the ability to fit three M.2 SSDs and up to 128GB of DDR5 memory into this small chassis does give it
This is the mini PC that finally made me display my home server instead of burying itTy Sherback May 8, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer…
…They're installing Bazzite, SteamOS, or some other Linux distro on desktops and mini PCs to create cheaper and arguably more powerful machines, no pun intended. If you don't want to…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 30, 2026, 10:01 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Smaller quantized models can comfortably run on hardware many people already own, including Mac minis, older gaming PCs, mini PCs, and reasonably modern desktops. I myself run the LLM on my MacBook…
…Likewise, I run faster-whisper (speech-to-text) and Piper (text-to-speech) on the same mini-PC housing my HASS instance, and this combo provides near-instantaneous responses to my queries…
…t possess any AI-centric features of their own. For example, I’ve got a TrueNAS instance hooked up to an MCP server running on my PC, and after disabling any tool…
Ayush Pande Apr 18, 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with…
…and mood uplift. I never thought HDR would end up changing the way I look at PC gaming, but here we are. Ever since I moved to a 4K 144Hz miniLED display…
…Unpacked events and more. Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University. Sign in to your XDA account Summary Acer's Predator Helios 18 AI: 18-inch mini-LED, up…
…a mini PC powered by Nvidia's GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. It has 128 GB of VRAM for local AI workloads, and can be used for quantization, fine-tuning and all things…
