Has anyone tried out the latest Mini PCs ? I was looking to pick up a Mini as my second PC, and was thinking of running a DAW and a few synths on it. Mostly light stuff, just a few tracks of audio and midi. How do these hold up ?
I was looking at these two....
Beelink SER8 AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS MINI PC 8 Cores/16 Threads Frequency up to 5.1GHz
Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 Processor 12C/24T AI PC Turbo Frequency 5.1GHz
https://www.bee-link.com/collections/mi ... er8-8845hs
Current Mini PCs
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- KVRist
- 105 posts since 20 Dec, 2014
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- KVRAF
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Either of those two will run a lot more than a "few tracks of audio and midi" !MeanMrMustard wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 12:25 pm Has anyone tried out the latest Mini PCs ? I was looking to pick up a Mini as my second PC, and was thinking of running a DAW and a few synths on it. Mostly light stuff, just a few tracks of audio and midi. How do these hold up ?
I was looking at these two....
Beelink SER8 AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS MINI PC 8 Cores/16 Threads Frequency up to 5.1GHz
Beelink SER9 AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX 370 Processor 12C/24T AI PC Turbo Frequency 5.1GHz
https://www.bee-link.com/collections/mi ... er8-8845hs
They should handle anything you throw at them. Amazing value in such a small package. Expandable as well. I guess the only possible downside is how quiet they actually are in practise.
If the rumours are correct, then Apple are bringing out their new smaller Mac mini in a few weeks, which is supposed to be re-designed to be very small, with 16GB of ram as standard. It should be silent. So assuming that Apple price it right, it could be a toss up between a mini PC and a Mac mini.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 105 posts since 20 Dec, 2014
dellboy wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 1:30 pm
Either of those two will run a lot more than a "few tracks of audio and midi" !
They should handle anything you throw at them. Amazing value in such a small package. Expandable as well. I guess the only possible downside is how quiet they actually are in practise.
If the rumours are correct, then Apple are bringing out their new smaller Mac mini in a few weeks, which is supposed to be re-designed to be very small, with 16GB of ram as standard. It should be silent. So assuming that Apple price it right, it could be a toss up between a mini PC and a Mac mini.
Yes, good point. At the end of Oct we should have great choices.
I like the idea of these mini PCs, though I'll reserve any opinions until after the reviews come in.
