System contractors in the little kind element (SFF) specificniche definitely love packing the most effective parts into the tiniest case possible, and making it appearance excellent in the procedure. But desktop producers appear to have a lower limitation on these styles.
One store contractor appears to haveactually busted through it, . The MegaMini G1 is… well, it’s simply the prettiest lil guy.
We’ve seen initial styles for the MegaMini G1 a coupleof times this year, consistingof at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress. But now the producers — mini PC professional Geekom and basic electronicdevices brandname Tecno — are prepared to start selling.
Well, nearly. It’s up on Kickstarter now with an early bird cost of $1,500 and a shipping date set for November 2024.
The tiny, teeny-weeny, Intel-powered tiny PC loads a 13th-gen Intel Core i7 processor and a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 discrete graphics card into a case that’s simply 255mm high and 150mm square at the base. That’s a volume under 6 liters. (For contrast, the present go-to preferred MiniITX case, Fractal Design’s Terra, is 10.4 liters.)
But this thing isn’t simply small. It’s a masterpiece! The MegaMini G1’s case is a streamlined vertical affair with windows on 3 sides, proving off the custom-made heat exchanger and 4 transparent pipelines running to an L-shaped radiator on the back. Geekom states the bundle is under 36 decibels for sound, compared to 45 to 60 for a requirement PC. Note the internal RGB lighting and little LCD screen on the leading to program off status messages.
I’m satisfied by the port choice. You get 4 USB-A ports and a earphone jack on the front, and around the back you get 2 more USB-A ports, double USB-C, double HDMI, DisplayPort, and a complete Ethernet jack. Not bad at all for a mini PC.
Naturally, there are going to be some compromises. The CPU and GPU are both laptopcomputer parts, so this is basically a videogaming laptopcomputer with the screen and keyboard changed with a enormous cooling system. (That’s how they’ve packed