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Elebao’s mini PC lineup (CES 2019)

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Elebao is a Chinese manufacturer that produces Android TV boxes and Windows PCs, among other things. As an ODM (original device manufacturer), Elebao doesn’t sell its products directly to consumers. Instead it produces hardware for clients that sell it under different names. I happened across the company’s booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, and recognized […]

First look: Zotac ZBOX 2019 mini PC lineup

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Zotac’s 2019 lineup of mini PCs includes a half-sized desktop gaming PC, a pocket-sized PC with an Intel Amber Lake processor, and an updated version of the company’s fanless desktop. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The company also has new mini workstations and gaming desktops, tiny computers with Intel Gemini Lake processors […]

Zotac is giving its excellent fanless PC a Whiskey Lake update

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The Zotac ZBOX CI660 nano is a compact, fanless desktop computer powered by an Intel Core i7-8550U processor. That’s a laptop-class processor, but thanks to a larger-than-laptop chassis with a good passive cooling solution, I found that the computer actually outperformed most laptops with the same chip. Overall I was pretty impressed with the little […]

Zotac’s MEK Mini is a desktop gaming PC… but smaller

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Zotac has been focused on two things for the past few years — high performance gaming PC hardware and really tiny computers. The Zotac MEK Mini takes a bit from each category. At 10.3″ x 10.2″ x 5.4″ it’s not exactly the smallest PC on display in Las Vegas during CES this week, but it […]

First look: Asus 2019 mini PC lineup

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Ahead of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Asus unveiled a “mini” workstation PC called the ProArt PA90. It sports a 9th-gen Intel Core processor, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, and plenty of other beefy specs… and when you compare it to other computers with that kind of hardware I guess it does seem kind of small. But […]

Zotac Pico PI470 is a pocket-sized PC with Intel Amber Lake

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Zotac’s latest pocket-sized computer is the company’s most powerful to date. The Zotac ZBOX Pico PI470 is a tiny, fanless computer that’s smaller than a modern smartphone, but it’s not a phone… it’s a full-fledged PC which will be available with up to an Intel Core i7-8500Y processor when Zotac releases the PI470 later this year. The company […]

Hands-on with the Cosmo Communicator smartphone/mini laptop

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Planet Computers hopes to ship its second handheld PC/smartphone in June, and the company is showing off some early prototypes at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Cosmo Communicator is basically an updated version of the Gemini PDA that company released last year. Like its predecessor, it’s a clamshell device that you can open to reveal a […]

How to reset Windows on a One Mix Yoga (or One Mix 2S)

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One Netbook‘s One Mix Yoga line of handheld computers are pocket-sized notebooks with small (and cramped) keyboards, touchscreen displays, 360-degree hinges, and optional support for a pen. After having tested the One Mix Yoga and One Mix 2S Yoga this year, I’m giving away the demo units the folks at GeekBuying sent me to review. But […]



Zotac ZBOX CI600 nano fanless mini-PCs now available

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The Zotac ZBOX CI660 nano I reviewed last month is a pretty great all-around computer for folks looking for a small, quiet desktop PC. It’s a fanless computer that measures about 8″ x 5.1″ x 2.7″ and which has plenty of ports and enough horsepower for most common tasks — in fact it runs faster […]

Zotac PI225-GK is a pocket-sized computer with Intel Gemini Lake CPU

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Zotac’s PI225 line of computer are ridiculously small — like smaller than most smartphones small. But they’re full-fledged PCs capable of running Windows 10 or other operating systems (like a GNU/Linux distribution). The latest is the the Zotac ZBOX Pico PI225-GK which is a 3.8″ x 2.5″ x 0.8″ computer with an Intel Celeron N4000 […]