Xiaomi would be working on two mini desktop PCs. The former is still quite mysterious but could be powerful, while the latter would partially replicate the look and concept of Apple’s Mac mini.
Sober and practical design for the supposed Xiaomi Mini PC… perhaps more practical than that of its mentor // Source: GSMArena via Weibo
Having ventured into the laptop market with some success but limited (only in China), Xiaomi is now working to carve out a small space in the desktop PC market. We learn from recent posts on Chinese social platform Weibo that the company would have two mini desktop PCs in the works.
For now, as reported by GSMArena, the first seems to be responding to the name Xiaomi Host Mini-PC. It would be in the state of a compact machine, reminiscent in certain aspects of the NUC introduced by Intel. The second, obviously called the Xiaomi Mini PC, would be quite heavily inspired by Apple’s Mac mini. The two products were scheduled to be unveiled on December 1, during an event that Xiaomi wanted to definitively postpone following the death of Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese president.
Two desktop mini PCs launched only in China?
The design of the Xiaomi Host Mini PC was leaked ahead of time through a few shots. We discover a “barebones” product without its main components. In this case, with these images, the device is content with a 100W power adapter … and nothing else inside the case. It is certain that Xiaomi will not sell its mini PC in this form and that its components will simply be announced later.
It’s hard to say what to expect in these conditions, but let’s find a mini-ITX format motherboard. There’s also a slot for a dedicated graphics card (low-profile, half-height, or dual-slot). This GPU slot suggests that the Xiaomi Host Mini PC would not be limited to a single configuration with a 100W power supply, but logically other models with more powerful power supplies should be offered to meet the performance needs of a graphics card.
We also discover that Xiaomi would have the idea of reusing the Windows + M command itself (usually used to collapse all the windows that are displayed). However, it is unclear what benefit is to be derived from it. Likewise, it’s impossible to tell at this point what the mechanical button visible on the back of the case is used for.
Fortunately, we know more about the Xiaomi Mini PC (picture above in the article). It would be equipped a priori with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor: a low-power chip (45W) usually found on gaming laptops, houses a Radeon 680M RDNA2 graphics part. In this case, this chip would be coupled with 16 GB of RAM and would ultimately have a 512 GB SSD. On the price side, you would have to bet on 3999 yuan, almost 550 euros without taxes.
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