What a neat unit. I like that you spent the time showing the Oculink vs USB4 rather than comparing the iGPU performance to other 6900HX units. If I didn't have too many minis as it is, I'd order this in a heartbeat. Fun review to watch.
Grabbed an older gem10 6800H. First personal windows machine in a long time and can’t be more happy with it. I wonder if the ocup4v2 or my fanatec csl dd will arrive first 😆
Bought one of these as a barebone, based on the recommendation. Nice little pc. The barebone experience is different, particularly in that the feet aren't attached but they give you two sets to stick in, which is nice. My Firecuda NVME heatsink fouled on a structural rib in the plastic base, which makes me think that they'd installed it the wrong way - if you detach the fan and WiFi antenna and rotate the base before putting it all back together, everything fits nicer. Think the base designer had that in mind but it didn't get communicated to the shop floor. Initially tried it in Quiet power mode and almost got it to install windows using power from the monitor. Not quite though. I plugged in the PSU and it worked fine but when I benchmarked it, the results on quiet are well below that of my old 7735hs Beelink, so I've been running it on Balanced instead, which works as you'd expect. Again, nice little pc that runs well. Got to praise Aoostar for the delivery service as well - order to door (in the UK) in 7 days, and I wasn't stung by import duty either.
For another AUD $100 (when on sale) you could get a Minisforum UM780 XTX with OCulink port (although you'll sacrifice a M.2 slot), 7840HS CPU and 780M graphics.
6900HX is such an odd chip to still be using - uses so much more power for such little extra performance vs the 7735HS. For near $500 I'd be buying 8845HS stuff now with 780m unless you get a good deal.
Good machine, but it's at least one year late. With an updated Cpu and IGpu could be a must buy, even at an higher price, but as it is, you can find better perfomance for the same money,
Always annoying when you can get a PC to post on USB-C power, only to find it shutting down when Windows is about to fire up. Think it's something to do with the PD system sensing power draw, but would be happy for someone to explain it.
@@RobtechBeelink recommend setting the updated Ser6 to 54w in BIOS to power with PD so it might be worth trying the Quiet profile. I’ve ordered a barebones so will give it a go. There is a lot of play on words with mini manufacturers about PD. Aoostar are stating 100w and using ‘Fully featured USB4’ to describe this one, so I live in hope, rather than expectation. Minisforum used to say fully featured but seem to have gone towards stating 5v3a on later 12th gen Intel machines. 5 lots and 3 amps isn’t a lot of juice, when their barrel jack is 19 volt.
Do you worry about potential spyware with these NO-Name companies (or not US companies)? As a precaution do you still boot up with the preinstalled Windows 11 or what do you do?
