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  • neogodless - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Is the max CPU 4700U as mentioned in the article text, or 4800U as shown in the specifications table?
  • quorm - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Other websites say 4800u.
  • PixyMisa - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Gigabyte's own website lists two 4800U models.
  • Ian Cutress - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    There's webpage links to the 4800U models.
  • mrvco - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Looking forward to the AT review of these little guys.
  • Desierz - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    What does the Mac Mini M1 have to with this? Seems randomly dropped into the article. Weird.
  • GreenReaper - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    It's a comparison to a competing product, of a fact which prospective buyers might be interested in.
  • hackztor2 - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    Not a comparison anymore. I have an older white mac mini for my moms machine with only windows installed. With the M1 no more bootcamp so cannot use that anymore.
  • Death666Angel - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    So? Few people care about the OS that runs, they care about the programs that run. And many people I know use their PC for shopping, emails, music, videos. Things that run on MacOS as well as on Linux or Windows.
  • Mil0 - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    With windows on ARM and MS and apple being in good standing these days, I don't see why it couldn't be supported soon.
  • Hul8 - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    Both are similar form factor, so giving context to the list of features or number of connections is good journalism. I applaud AnandTech for actually contributing instead of just repeating the press statement verbatim.
  • damianrobertjones - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    Please remember that many web sites will not constantly push the M1 based apple products. When Anand worked at this site the apple bias was so blatant, that it became obvious when he left to WORK for Apple. This article isn't bad though, as it is a direct competing product.

    I use to love the laptop reviews that were constantly trashed, despite getting near Apple's battery life. Once a few oems beat Apple, it became quite quiet in the battery area. Used to make me laugh. Now, we have once again returned to, 'Apple is the king of everything'. They'll be beaten.
  • drexnx - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    Brian Klug was the original apple fanboy, when he left for apple, it was what, 6 months until Anand did as well?

    now we have junior apple fanboy Andrei 😂
  • Rookierookie - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    I hope AMD makes it into the Aero laptops in the near future.
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    An Aero with Cezanne would be the XPS killer that we need.

    Bonus points if they get RDNA 2 in there as well, though I'd settle for a Zen 3 / Ampere combo.
  • AdditionalPylons - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Nice to see 2.5 GbE standard! Otherwise the specs are very similar to Asus PN50. Waiting for the price and availability.
  • quorm - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Looks like it also has a serial port.
  • GreenReaper - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    The S does, yes, as well as SATA - that is why RS232 is listed.
  • brucethemoose - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Price will be key. If its as expensive as a laptop, well, that would be unfortunate.

    Renoir has some crazy low-TDP MT performance though. Still, I'm kinda suprised they didnt use the 35W variant, since cooling should be easier than a laptop.
  • Sahrin - Saturday, November 21, 2020 - link

    Would be nice to see a slightly larger form factor with full size DIMMs.
  • meacupla - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    what? why?

    I can understand going larger for a more robust cooling system or more powerful CPU/GPU, but just to use desktop RAM?
  • TheinsanegamerN - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    Agree that the 25W limit is more likely, I also feel Gigabye knows that the TDP can be adjusted with software and is building some extra overhead in just in case.

    The fact that this will have a 4800u version is rather exciting. If the BIOS can modify RAM speeds and allow for ram OCing this could be an awesome mini TV PC for couch gaming.
  • haakon_k - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    I had a thought; maybe the extra powerful 135W brick also could supply some decent amount of power to the USB C port? It could even power a small display (in the future).
  • GreenReaper - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    Yeah, you may well want USB 3.0 with power distribution if taking it on the road - or using it in industry.
  • yeeeeman - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    Hopefully now the forever crying AMD fans are pleased that Intel is not bribing gigabyte to not make brix with AMD
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    All I've seen so far is an Intel fan crying about the imaginary AMD fans that live in their head. Check the rest of the comments, see for yourself. 👍
  • lmcd - Sunday, December 6, 2020 - link

    Obviously the crying AMD fans aren't on this thread, they're just on every Intel laptop thread since Ryzen 4000 launch.
  • dgz - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    I'd swap my company issued 6 core intel laptop for one of these any day of the week. A unit with 4700u, never mind the 4750u/4800u utterly destroys my heavy laptop in any useful metric. And is smaller. And quieter. And is simpler because it doesn't have an nvidia card.
  • tygrus - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    The 135w PSU easily allows upto 55w total for USB powered devices to be connected. Maybe it has better cooling and VRM for running above normal uTDP continuous.
  • zodiacfml - Sunday, November 22, 2020 - link

    This is a good match for the M1 Mac Mini. After reading a bunch about the M1, it is not too impressive compared to Ryzen Mobile, and considering Apple product is at 5nm. The strong thing in the M1 that doesn't get much hype is its graphics which will only matched by AMD's or Intel's next generation iGPU.
  • Spunjji - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    Indeed - for most purposes these will be comparable. What the M1 has in graphics it more than lacks in software support, but I'm hoping it servers as an impetus for AMD to up their iGPU game again.
  • LuckyKnight - Monday, November 23, 2020 - link

    This is exactly the kind of product I was waiting for - I wanted one without a 2.5" drive slot as I don't need it and I need to replace by 5th Gen NUC with something better.

    Question is - is is quiet (e.g. playing a movie) and can it play back Ultra HD blu rays? (with protected media path etc.)

    Also does it support VRR/FreeSync?

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