I like small computers. The reason I like small computers is you can just tuck them behind your
monitor or stuff them in a drawer or just get them out of the way. But this is a mini computer
that wants to be seen. It's a mini computer from our friends at Mini's forum that has a,
can you see it already? There's a screen on this thing and not just a screen, a touch screen.
As you can imagine, not really meant to stuff this one in the drawer. I guess it probably sits.
Okay, yeah, there's a stand. Ah, this is making more sense. Is it an adjustable stand? Whoa, look
at that. That's got some nice, oh, she's stiff. It doesn't have screws, so you can't make it
stiff again if it becomes loose, but that's pretty good to start. Clip it on there and you can see.
Boom. The Mini's form Adam Mann X7 Ti. I bet the Ti stands for titanium. It's a little computer
with a four inch touch screen on it. Why? I don't know. Look at that. It's so quaint and shiny. I
mean, fingerprints wise, like, look, look at this. There's some other stuff going on here. What is
that? Is that a, does it look like microphones? Oh God, it's a computer with a webcam. You guys
know how much I liked the last one of those. This one kind of makes sense though, because you
have to have it front and center for the touch screen. So you might as well stick a webcam on there.
We've got some cables in the box. HDMI cable, which Mini's form pretty much always includes
nice touch. We get the little Mickey ears to a standard cable and then a cute little power brick.
In Chinese. Okay, never mind. And that's it for the box. It's 120 watts. That's a lot of juice.
On the outside, on the top. Okay, this part of the IO is at least smart. If you need an SD card slot,
it's basically as convenient as it possibly could be. Oh, look at that. Do you see what's
happening here? Look at this. Look, it's got a physical blocker due dad. So you can actually
disable the webcam, which is very nice when it's a webcam that's physically integrated into the device.
Power button, lots of ventilation here. I mean, we got 120 watt power brick. So I imagine
it needs it. We've got this guy here. We've got that guy there and some ventilation on the bottom.
On this side, we've got the DC power in an HDMI 2.1 port. Always nice to see some manner of USB type
the blue one. I think this is a five gig port because they list that there's one five gig and
two 10 gig type A's. We'll see the rest of those in a second. We've got a USB 2.0 type A. We've
got DisplayPort 2.0. They don't list the throughput rate. So I'll see if I can figure that out before
the end of this video. Two five gig Ethernet jacks, a USB four and oculink. Is five gig making a
comeback? This is the first recent product I've seen that actually is integrating it again,
which is great because yeah, doubled the speed of even 2.5 gig, five times the speed of one gig.
That oculink port is great if you want to run an eGPU. Mini's form even actually makes an oculink
dock that you can buy for a somewhat reasonable price. But this is a PCIe Gen 4 by 4 connection
inside of here. It's not Thunderbolt, even though there is this USB 4, which you also
could use for an eGPU. It's just like a straight PCIe connection, which is pretty nice because
there's a little bit less overhead. There are the other USB type A ports I was talking about. These
are likely 10 gig. And then we've got another USB 4 combo audio and a reset button. That's pretty
much it for IO. That looks great on my desk. I wish the stand had some thought put into like
cable management. Like if the ports came out of the bottom and it was a little bit taller stand
that kind of hid them, that would be cool. Or like, hey, how about put the IO on the back maybe?
It's not the worst thing I've ever seen, but it's not the best. Oh wow, it's got like stuff on it
already. Whoa, look at that. Wow. I've got this wonderful color appropriate, very stealthy cable
to plug into the side of this thing. All right, specs wise, we've got a Core Ultra 9 185H.
This is a Meteor Lake chip with some AI stuff built in. We got 32 gigs of RAM,
a 1 terabyte Kingston SSD. You can also order this thing as a bare bones, which I would encourage
you to do because you can probably get a better deal on the SSD and RAM yourself. We can see the
five gig Ethernet I mentioned earlier and then also Intel Wi-Fi 7, which should be pretty fast.
I don't have a Wi-Fi 7 access point here to try it with, but we'll do a little speed test in a
second here. I've been informed that there is no software. I mean, it's reading stats. There's
a piece of software on here called SCCS I am not familiar with. It doesn't seem to launch,
but I think that might be the background app that does the like communication. Let's see,
how accurate are we talking here? 42 degrees on the CPU package. It says 43 there. That's close
enough, right? Oh yeah, there's a few second delay. It looks like maybe three seconds, but it does
actually seem to read the specs somewhat accurately. I'm sure it's just pulling from the sensors
through that piece of software. What if we try like a speed test? Does it update? Let's see. Oh yeah,
look at that. I say it's a 480p screen, so I guess it's 480 by 480, given that it's a square.
It is a touchscreen, so we can adjust our system volume. We can address the screen brightness.
What does this USB button do? Device interface. Whoa. Oh, look, it tells you it's a map of the
ports. That's kind of cute, except it says USB 3.2 on all three of these blue ones. Very helpful.
What else we got here? Does this display other things? Mode adjustment. Oh, performance mode.
Does this just change the power profile and
can you even like... Oh yeah, it's making noise now. It doesn't. This is doing something else.
It slightly adjusts the CPU, GPU balance for the wattage. What else we got in here? Clock.
How do I... Is there not other screens? Like, swipe? How do I do... Oh, look at that. Wow,
we got fancy clocks. This is an Apple watch now. This seems like what most people would display
on this screen, you know? Like, it's got a clock on the computer. It looks okay. It's not going to be
the most customizable thing in the world. You can't like drag and drop stuff, but you can at least
change the languages and slightly adjust where things are. I mean, I'm not mad about it. It's
cool that it's not just like a DisplayPort connection to your PC and you have to run some like
stupid software in the background, although there is some software in the background. Let's try the
webcam. I'm sure it's great. Oh man, look at that. That's lovely. This is actually... That's pretty
good, actually. Does that not look pretty good? It looks pretty good. I mean, we're like half studio
lighting, half not very lit. It does look good, even in the dark. I mean, there's still one light
above me, but it's pretty dark in here and it's a little noisier, but for a webcam, like seriously.
All right, boys and girls, let's see this go burr. Hey, look at that. Five gigabit. Dude, five gig is
sick. If just more things supported it, it would be much better, but pretty freaking sick. Naturally,
we should try the Wi-Fi too.
It's an Intel Wi-Fi chipset. It's fast. I mean, realistically, this AP seems to max out at about
600 unless you're on 6 gigahertz. So yeah, good. 700 up. Look at that. Boom. It's an APU-ish. I mean,
this is like a laptop chip with integrated graphics. It's not going to blow your socks off, but it will
play games like Rocket League at 1080p pretty decently. Or if you're using it as like a little
HDPC, it's going to do that totally fine. For comparison, we looked at an ASUS Zephyrus G16
with the dedicated GPU turned off. So it's basically the exact same chip as in here at that point.
And generally, it was faster. It doesn't seem like the balance versus performance mode makes a huge
difference. If anything, it's within an FPS or two, but it also is very possible that the G16 is
thermal throttling because they like to do that. This thing doesn't seem to. I mean, it's relatively
quiet. Let's see how loud it gets. This is in the balance profile right now and Cinebench is one
of the situations where you could actually see a difference between balance and performance mode,
even though it didn't make much of a difference in games. I mean, it's pretty quiet right now.
If this was sitting on my desk next to my monitor, I think it would get annoying if I wasn't wearing
headphones. If I had open back headphones, this would drive me crazy. I mean, the exhaust is like
right upwards in your face. It just kind of sounds like a laptop. It's a quiet laptop. Here,
this will give you a better indication. Here's performance mode.
Balance mode. It's way quieter. When you move to non-performance tests like Blender or Photoshop,
a G16 is a touch faster, but we're pretty much in the same range. So it performs as
expect. I don't know if anyone is looking to buy this thing as a performance monster,
but it would do calculations pretty much as to your expectations. I can't imagine it's getting
that hot. Let's click. I should be trying to score here. Hey, thanks, teammate. I'm a little
disappointed in the noise levels. I mean, many computers are usually pretty good noise-wise,
but the screen obviously causes a little bit of ventilation constraints. Let's look at the temps
here. This is in balance mode for the reference. We're like CPU package. I mean, it's all over
the place as a game, but getting up into 75 and our package power is at like 37 watts and it's this
loud. All that's left now is to take it apart. Hey, I don't know how good it is to put a magnet
near your computer, but the LTT cable management keyhole thingies that you usually use for power
bars just barely fit in there. It's not really in there, but it's in there enough. And now,
watch this. Your webcam could be mounted at a very convenient location.
Yeah, jokes aside, you could stick this on the side of your computer or like
if you have a metal wall or a fridge beside your computer. This is a thing they keep doing,
minisform. Please God, make the feet not get destroyed when you want to take the computer
apart. I don't understand this. Like, there you go. Great. I can take it apart by just destroying
these little rubber feet because they're sticky. Usually you can stick them back on, but like,
just don't put the screws to take the computer apart underneath the freaking feet.
Hello, sir. Can I get some open, please?
Whoa, the ports are on a daughter board. Why would they do that?
How am I supposed to detach this? That's a big cooling apparatus. This big fan
explains why it's so noisy. That's a lot of screws, man. I don't know if I'm trying to take this off
right now. Damn, look at them heat pipes. That was hefty. Why is this thing so loud?
We've got the two sodium slots where you can put up to 96 gigs of DDR5 memory.
You get a little graphing. Actually, it's thick graphing pads.
What are these? Crucial, 5,600. Cool. And over here, we can see the two M.2s. This is the 2280.
It comes with, this is a Gen 4 slot, and then there's also a 2230 slot. If you want to put a
second SSD, I am going to take this little board off because I want to see the back of the screen.
You're supposed to take the cooler off before you do this. Oh, God. Yeah, there we go. Look at that.
If you need to do this for whatever reason, take the little ribbon cable out of here and
take the CPU cooler off first because, yep. Oh, the CMOS battery is on the back, brother.
I mean, they give you a reset button, but if you need to get at that, that's a pain in the
****. And then there's the Wi-Fi card, which also pain in the **** to get at.
The screen definitely can just come out now that those screws are taken out. The screen module has an SD card slot on it. That's weird. Oh, that ribbon cable.
This ribbon cable is not for the screen. This is for the camera. It says right there. Well,
it's a mini computer with a screen on it. It seems to perform as it should. It's a little bit noisy.
The screen doesn't act as a desktop screen. If you're hoping for that, it's just those
displays or a clock. The webcam is pretty good and it's kind of expensive. This is $669
bare bones. That means no SSD and no RAM. It's not cheap. If you want it with 32 gigs of RAM,
a one terabyte SSD, and with the eGPU dock, you're looking at $899 US as of right now.
I mean, if you want this, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world,
but also you probably don't need this. Just buy like a UM790 or a UM890.
It's cheaper and probably faster and less noisy and smaller. So thanks for watching.
If you like this video, maybe check out the time that I looked at that mini's forum that
just had a webcam integrated into it. It was strange then. It's still a bit strange,
but that one's webcam actually still works at the end of the video.