Excellent product
A tiny gamer PC that you can hold with one hand! Delivered without RAM or mass storage (M.2), nor external PCIe graphics card. The assembly is not complicated (1 hour) but delicate, due to the very small space available in the box of 5 litres volume. Attention: the accepted graphics cards must be MINI (8 inches or less). Small mistake: the power cable supplied is US standard, it should be replaced by a European cable. No other cabling is provided, plan to add: RJ45 network, video cable according to the added card, TOSLINK sound cable in jack version, and mouse+keyboard. Only one screw is provided to attach the M.2 disks while there are two slots. No possibility to connect a SATA drive but the Thunderbolt output (USB-C type) allows to connect external drives at full speed.
A multitude of USB ports are offered: 6 USB-A, 2 USB-C, an SD card reader, an analogue microphone/headphone jack on the front. For surround sound, the TOSLINK digital output (jack type) must be used, which limits the connection to a single cable.
The machine is remarkably quiet and runs very cool. The honeycomb walls work perfectly to ventilate the interior of the case. Equipped with Xubuntu 20.04, almost all the hardware is perfectly recognized and operational as soon as I install it -- I'm still trying to figure out how to support sound output over HDMI, a classic problem with Ubuntu apparently.
I chose the core i5 version, which is more than enough for games and to drive an ASUS RTX 2060 MINI graphics card for CUDA programming. Steam works very well and runs most Windows games thanks to Proton. It is no longer necessary to have Windows 10 to play.
The only drawback is the very high price. It should be possible to build a more powerful machine for less money by choosing its components, but it won't be as mobile.
