WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.160 I like small computers. The reason I like small computers is you can just tuck them behind your 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:12.400 monitor or stuff them in a drawer or just get them out of the way. But this is a mini computer 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:17.520 that wants to be seen. It's a mini computer from our friends at Mini's forum that has a, 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:24.000 can you see it already? There's a screen on this thing and not just a screen, a touch screen. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:31.040 As you can imagine, not really meant to stuff this one in the drawer. I guess it probably sits. 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:36.480 Okay, yeah, there's a stand. Ah, this is making more sense. Is it an adjustable stand? Whoa, look 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:43.200 at that. That's got some nice, oh, she's stiff. It doesn't have screws, so you can't make it 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:48.800 stiff again if it becomes loose, but that's pretty good to start. Clip it on there and you can see. 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:58.560 Boom. The Mini's form Adam Mann X7 Ti. I bet the Ti stands for titanium. It's a little computer 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:07.760 with a four inch touch screen on it. Why? I don't know. Look at that. It's so quaint and shiny. I 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:12.240 mean, fingerprints wise, like, look, look at this. There's some other stuff going on here. What is 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:17.600 that? Is that a, does it look like microphones? Oh God, it's a computer with a webcam. You guys 00:01:17.600 --> 00:01:21.920 know how much I liked the last one of those. This one kind of makes sense though, because you 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:27.120 have to have it front and center for the touch screen. So you might as well stick a webcam on there. 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:32.400 We've got some cables in the box. HDMI cable, which Mini's form pretty much always includes 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:38.320 nice touch. We get the little Mickey ears to a standard cable and then a cute little power brick. 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:50.880 In Chinese. Okay, never mind. And that's it for the box. It's 120 watts. That's a lot of juice. 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:56.880 On the outside, on the top. Okay, this part of the IO is at least smart. If you need an SD card slot, 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.320 it's basically as convenient as it possibly could be. Oh, look at that. Do you see what's 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:06.160 happening here? Look at this. Look, it's got a physical blocker due dad. So you can actually 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:12.160 disable the webcam, which is very nice when it's a webcam that's physically integrated into the device. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:17.680 Power button, lots of ventilation here. I mean, we got 120 watt power brick. So I imagine 00:02:18.320 --> 00:02:24.160 it needs it. We've got this guy here. We've got that guy there and some ventilation on the bottom. 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:31.440 On this side, we've got the DC power in an HDMI 2.1 port. Always nice to see some manner of USB type 00:02:32.160 --> 00:02:36.480 the blue one. I think this is a five gig port because they list that there's one five gig and 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:41.280 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 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.600 got DisplayPort 2.0. They don't list the throughput rate. So I'll see if I can figure that out before 00:02:45.600 --> 00:02:54.080 the end of this video. Two five gig Ethernet jacks, a USB four and oculink. Is five gig making a 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:58.080 comeback? This is the first recent product I've seen that actually is integrating it again, 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:04.560 which is great because yeah, doubled the speed of even 2.5 gig, five times the speed of one gig. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:09.440 That oculink port is great if you want to run an eGPU. Mini's form even actually makes an oculink 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:16.080 dock that you can buy for a somewhat reasonable price. But this is a PCIe Gen 4 by 4 connection 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.160 inside of here. It's not Thunderbolt, even though there is this USB 4, which you also 00:03:20.160 --> 00:03:25.200 could use for an eGPU. It's just like a straight PCIe connection, which is pretty nice because 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.960 there's a little bit less overhead. There are the other USB type A ports I was talking about. These 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:35.840 are likely 10 gig. And then we've got another USB 4 combo audio and a reset button. That's pretty 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:43.120 much it for IO. That looks great on my desk. I wish the stand had some thought put into like 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.960 cable management. Like if the ports came out of the bottom and it was a little bit taller stand 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:53.040 that kind of hid them, that would be cool. Or like, hey, how about put the IO on the back maybe? 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:58.960 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 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:08.400 already. Whoa, look at that. Wow. I've got this wonderful color appropriate, very stealthy cable 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:15.600 to plug into the side of this thing. All right, specs wise, we've got a Core Ultra 9 185H. 00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:22.160 This is a Meteor Lake chip with some AI stuff built in. We got 32 gigs of RAM, 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:27.120 a 1 terabyte Kingston SSD. You can also order this thing as a bare bones, which I would encourage 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.960 you to do because you can probably get a better deal on the SSD and RAM yourself. We can see the 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:37.200 five gig Ethernet I mentioned earlier and then also Intel Wi-Fi 7, which should be pretty fast. 00:04:37.200 --> 00:04:42.240 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 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.720 second here. I've been informed that there is no software. I mean, it's reading stats. There's 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:52.240 a piece of software on here called SCCS I am not familiar with. It doesn't seem to launch, 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:56.880 but I think that might be the background app that does the like communication. Let's see, 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:02.640 how accurate are we talking here? 42 degrees on the CPU package. It says 43 there. That's close 00:05:02.640 --> 00:05:08.960 enough, right? Oh yeah, there's a few second delay. It looks like maybe three seconds, but it does 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:14.720 actually seem to read the specs somewhat accurately. I'm sure it's just pulling from the sensors 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:21.440 through that piece of software. What if we try like a speed test? Does it update? Let's see. Oh yeah, 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:26.720 look at that. I say it's a 480p screen, so I guess it's 480 by 480, given that it's a square. 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:32.480 It is a touchscreen, so we can adjust our system volume. We can address the screen brightness. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:38.000 What does this USB button do? Device interface. Whoa. Oh, look, it tells you it's a map of the 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:45.120 ports. That's kind of cute, except it says USB 3.2 on all three of these blue ones. Very helpful. 00:05:46.640 --> 00:05:53.280 What else we got here? Does this display other things? Mode adjustment. Oh, performance mode. 00:05:53.840 --> 00:05:55.680 Does this just change the power profile and 00:05:57.520 --> 00:06:03.040 can you even like... Oh yeah, it's making noise now. It doesn't. This is doing something else. 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:10.240 It slightly adjusts the CPU, GPU balance for the wattage. What else we got in here? Clock. 00:06:11.760 --> 00:06:16.400 How do I... Is there not other screens? Like, swipe? How do I do... Oh, look at that. Wow, 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:23.360 we got fancy clocks. This is an Apple watch now. This seems like what most people would display 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.560 on this screen, you know? Like, it's got a clock on the computer. It looks okay. It's not going to be 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:32.480 the most customizable thing in the world. You can't like drag and drop stuff, but you can at least 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:38.480 change the languages and slightly adjust where things are. I mean, I'm not mad about it. It's 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.320 cool that it's not just like a DisplayPort connection to your PC and you have to run some like 00:06:42.320 --> 00:06:46.240 stupid software in the background, although there is some software in the background. Let's try the 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:54.720 webcam. I'm sure it's great. Oh man, look at that. That's lovely. This is actually... That's pretty 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:59.520 good, actually. Does that not look pretty good? It looks pretty good. I mean, we're like half studio 00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:05.680 lighting, half not very lit. It does look good, even in the dark. I mean, there's still one light 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:11.440 above me, but it's pretty dark in here and it's a little noisier, but for a webcam, like seriously. 00:07:11.440 --> 00:07:20.160 All right, boys and girls, let's see this go burr. Hey, look at that. Five gigabit. Dude, five gig is 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:27.520 sick. If just more things supported it, it would be much better, but pretty freaking sick. Naturally, 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:29.200 we should try the Wi-Fi too. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:40.320 It's an Intel Wi-Fi chipset. It's fast. I mean, realistically, this AP seems to max out at about 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:50.080 600 unless you're on 6 gigahertz. So yeah, good. 700 up. Look at that. Boom. It's an APU-ish. I mean, 00:07:50.080 --> 00:07:56.400 this is like a laptop chip with integrated graphics. It's not going to blow your socks off, but it will 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:01.920 play games like Rocket League at 1080p pretty decently. Or if you're using it as like a little 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:08.000 HDPC, it's going to do that totally fine. For comparison, we looked at an ASUS Zephyrus G16 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:13.920 with the dedicated GPU turned off. So it's basically the exact same chip as in here at that point. 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:18.480 And generally, it was faster. It doesn't seem like the balance versus performance mode makes a huge 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:24.480 difference. If anything, it's within an FPS or two, but it also is very possible that the G16 is 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:29.280 thermal throttling because they like to do that. This thing doesn't seem to. I mean, it's relatively 00:08:29.280 --> 00:08:33.360 quiet. Let's see how loud it gets. This is in the balance profile right now and Cinebench is one 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.280 of the situations where you could actually see a difference between balance and performance mode, 00:08:37.280 --> 00:08:41.120 even though it didn't make much of a difference in games. I mean, it's pretty quiet right now. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:46.880 If this was sitting on my desk next to my monitor, I think it would get annoying if I wasn't wearing 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:51.760 headphones. If I had open back headphones, this would drive me crazy. I mean, the exhaust is like 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:58.960 right upwards in your face. It just kind of sounds like a laptop. It's a quiet laptop. Here, 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.360 this will give you a better indication. Here's performance mode. 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:15.600 Balance mode. It's way quieter. When you move to non-performance tests like Blender or Photoshop, 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:21.280 a G16 is a touch faster, but we're pretty much in the same range. So it performs as 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:26.480 expect. I don't know if anyone is looking to buy this thing as a performance monster, 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:33.920 but it would do calculations pretty much as to your expectations. I can't imagine it's getting 00:09:33.920 --> 00:09:40.400 that hot. Let's click. I should be trying to score here. Hey, thanks, teammate. I'm a little 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:47.040 disappointed in the noise levels. I mean, many computers are usually pretty good noise-wise, 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:53.360 but the screen obviously causes a little bit of ventilation constraints. Let's look at the temps 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:58.960 here. This is in balance mode for the reference. We're like CPU package. I mean, it's all over 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:06.560 the place as a game, but getting up into 75 and our package power is at like 37 watts and it's this 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:13.840 loud. All that's left now is to take it apart. Hey, I don't know how good it is to put a magnet 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:19.920 near your computer, but the LTT cable management keyhole thingies that you usually use for power 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:29.200 bars just barely fit in there. It's not really in there, but it's in there enough. And now, 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:35.200 watch this. Your webcam could be mounted at a very convenient location. 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:42.000 Yeah, jokes aside, you could stick this on the side of your computer or like 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:48.720 if you have a metal wall or a fridge beside your computer. This is a thing they keep doing, 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:55.040 minisform. Please God, make the feet not get destroyed when you want to take the computer 00:10:55.040 --> 00:11:00.800 apart. I don't understand this. Like, there you go. Great. I can take it apart by just destroying 00:11:00.800 --> 00:11:05.840 these little rubber feet because they're sticky. Usually you can stick them back on, but like, 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:11.200 just don't put the screws to take the computer apart underneath the freaking feet. 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.760 Hello, sir. Can I get some open, please? 00:11:17.680 --> 00:11:20.800 Whoa, the ports are on a daughter board. Why would they do that? 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:27.280 How am I supposed to detach this? That's a big cooling apparatus. This big fan 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:31.120 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 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:41.680 right now. Damn, look at them heat pipes. That was hefty. Why is this thing so loud? 00:11:43.200 --> 00:11:48.720 We've got the two sodium slots where you can put up to 96 gigs of DDR5 memory. 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:51.840 You get a little graphing. Actually, it's thick graphing pads. 00:11:54.720 --> 00:12:00.640 What are these? Crucial, 5,600. Cool. And over here, we can see the two M.2s. This is the 2280. 00:12:00.640 --> 00:12:04.720 It comes with, this is a Gen 4 slot, and then there's also a 2230 slot. If you want to put a 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:08.800 second SSD, I am going to take this little board off because I want to see the back of the screen. 00:12:10.560 --> 00:12:16.240 You're supposed to take the cooler off before you do this. Oh, God. Yeah, there we go. Look at that. 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:22.480 If you need to do this for whatever reason, take the little ribbon cable out of here and 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:29.520 take the CPU cooler off first because, yep. Oh, the CMOS battery is on the back, brother. 00:12:29.520 --> 00:12:32.880 I mean, they give you a reset button, but if you need to get at that, that's a pain in the 00:12:32.880 --> 00:12:36.800 ****. And then there's the Wi-Fi card, which also pain in the **** to get at. 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:44.080 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. 00:12:44.080 --> 00:12:49.600 This ribbon cable is not for the screen. This is for the camera. It says right there. Well, 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:54.400 it's a mini computer with a screen on it. It seems to perform as it should. It's a little bit noisy. 00:12:55.280 --> 00:12:58.880 The screen doesn't act as a desktop screen. If you're hoping for that, it's just those 00:12:58.880 --> 00:13:05.440 displays or a clock. The webcam is pretty good and it's kind of expensive. This is $669 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:12.240 bare bones. That means no SSD and no RAM. It's not cheap. If you want it with 32 gigs of RAM, 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:17.120 a one terabyte SSD, and with the eGPU dock, you're looking at $899 US as of right now. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:24.400 I mean, if you want this, I don't think it's the worst thing in the world, 00:13:25.280 --> 00:13:32.160 but also you probably don't need this. Just buy like a UM790 or a UM890. 00:13:32.160 --> 00:13:37.680 It's cheaper and probably faster and less noisy and smaller. So thanks for watching. 00:13:37.680 --> 00:13:41.360 If you like this video, maybe check out the time that I looked at that mini's forum that 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:46.480 just had a webcam integrated into it. It was strange then. It's still a bit strange, 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.520 but that one's webcam actually still works at the end of the video.