MINISFORUM UM480 XT Mini PC AMD Ryzen 7 4800H(8C/16T) DDR4 16GB RAM+512GB NVMe SSD Desktop Computer, 2xHDMI+1xUSB-C 4K@60Hz Outputs, 2.5G LAN, AMD Radeon Graphics Mini Computer

Great for a lot of use cases
I’ve now purchased three of these. Each one intended to become my home server/lab. One went to a developer friend who needed an option when he was without his laptop for a few weeks. Another went to my mother in law when her computer died. Finally got my lab setup going. I will say the launch price was a little hard to swallow, but at closer to $750 give or take, it’s definitely been a good option for the 32gb model at time of purchase.If you’re doing anything more than very casual games at relatively low resolution, this is not for you in terms of a gaming computer. Integrated graphics, while better than intel, are just not great. This is a laptop cpu in a desktop form factor. What this means in practice, is at the time of release it was the fastest laptop cpu around, and the form factor means you get decent cooling without a lot of noise. It also means it will consume a lot less power than a typical, even slower, desktop or server.It runs windows very well for general use, and you can absolutely upgrade/install windows 11. The license key is in the bios, so can install directly to a new nvme drive without issue. The fact that it’s only got a 512gb drive may be it’s one down side for out of the box configuration for some.Linux support has been fantastic. I’m running it with Proxmox for my personal use with a handful of VMs and containers running. My developer friend is running PopOS and my mother in law is running Windows 11. All have been without issue. Absolutely fantastic for general use. If you want a relatively small footprint, lower power consumption system for a desktop experience this is a great option, and for the price one of the best options out there. I absolutely do, have and will recommend this model.Worth mentioning there is an HX90G model that was recently released that may be decent for 1080p/1440p mid-level gaming that does have a better GPU (Radion 6600M iirc), that you might want to consider if you need a bit more for GPU chores. If you’re looking at this after spring of 2023, then you may want to look for a 7000/8000 series CPU model which will probably be about 30-40% faster than this model by then.On the size, it’s actually a bit bigger (3x+) than many of the mini-pc options out there… It’s roughly the size of the box for a personal pizza. About 8″ square and nearly 2″ wide. I don’t think I would use this with the VESA mount on the back of a monitor. About the only other thing of note, is the stand doesn’t “hold” on, it’s just a lose fit on the stand.. it works fine, but it doesn’t fasten.

Great overall, but issues with 680M hardware-accelerated video transcoding in Linux
Pros:- Very easy to open and work on compared to other models (feet pop out to reveal screws, then pop back in)- Hard to beat the overall price/performance- Good variety of ports including USB4, 10 Gbit USB-C, 2.5 GbE- Can supposedly add a 2.5″ hdd/ssd but none of the drives I had laying around would fit (I could just be doing something wrong)- Seems to run quiet and fairly coolCons:- No DisplayPort (though I believe you can use the USB4 port for this)- No USB-A on the front- Only one internal M.2 port for NVMEs (second one is for WiFi, probably only has one slow PCIe lane)- Only one 2.5 GbE port- Radeon 680M has severe issues with hardware-accelerated h.264/h.265 transcoding in linux. You need the latest mesa-va-drivers and/or mesa-libgallium (24.2.4 seems to work) otherwise you will get random GPU crashes and instability after ~12 hours. On common distros like Debian, these packages are only available in the backports repo and many projects that use hardware transcoding point to mesa-va-drivers v22.x.x which is not stable with this iGPU. After upgrading, everything has been working fine for me, but be prepared to deal with this if you plan to use Linux with Rembrandt iGPUs.

　使っていたデスクトップPCが壊れたため、代わりを探していました。　それまで３画面のマルチディスプレイで運用しており、これもそれができるとのことで、買いました。　しかし、ここから３画面運用にするまで、苦労しました。　このミニPCは、ディスプレイ出力口として使えるものとして、　　１　ディスプレイポート（裏面）　　２　HDMI（裏面）　　３　USB-C（表面）の３つが設けられていますが、要注意なのが、　　「１のディスプレイポートは、HDMI変換ケーブルに対応していない」ことです。つまり、１はディスプレイポート→ディスプレイポートのみしか接続できないです。これは、問い合わせに対する出品者からの回答です。　それを知らなかった私は、ディスプレイポートがあるディスプレイを持っていなかったので、ディスプレイポート→HDMI変換ケーブルを買い、これのディスプレイポートから、手持ちのディスプレイのHDM入力Iに繋ぎましたが、認識しませんでした。　その後、いろいろやって、何とか３画面を達成しました（写真１）。　どうやったかというと、　　　前記の３のUSB-Cポートに、「USB-C→HDMI×２」のアダプタ　　　（Lemorele usb type c ハブ 2in1 USB C HDMI 変換アダプター）　を繋ぎ、そこからさらに２つのディスプレイをつないだのです（写真３）。　（もう一つのディスプレイは、普通にPC本体のHDMI出力に繋ぎました）　ただ、商品自体にはとても満足しています。　何より、この小ささがいいです。ディスプレイの裏に取り付けられ、場所もとりません（写真２）。音もほとんどしません。このまま出先に持っていけると思えるほどです。　高度なスペックを求めるゲームには向かないと思います。しかしながら、スカイリム（少し古いですが）は、画質を落とす必要があったものの、満足のいく範囲でプレイできました。（画質を落とさないとカクつく）シュミレーションゲームであるシヴィライゼーションⅥは、全く問題なく遊べました。　サポートの対応も良かったです。　先の問い合わせをメールでしたところ、２，３時間で日本語の返事がきました。　今回私は、ミニPCを初めて使いましたが、世の中進んでいるんだなと感銘を受けました。