I lately attended IFA 2023 in Berlin, and as at any good tech expo there was loads of strange stuff to see. However I’m a pc nerd at coronary heart, and the most effective issues – by my very own private metric – on the present was this ridiculously tiny liquid-cooled gaming PC.
Tecno is a Shenzhen, China-based tech firm that at the moment operates nearly all over the place besides america, though that actually ought to vary. I noticed some fairly nifty {hardware} on its stand at IFA, however the spotlight for me was the MegaMini G1 gaming desktop – a liquid-cooled idea PC with a ridiculously small footprint.
In line with the spec sheet I used to be proven, the MegaMini G1 options an Intel Core i9-13900H, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB SSD, and an RTX 4050 – not precisely the finest graphics card you should buy proper now, nevertheless it nonetheless boggles my thoughts that Tecno was capable of match all that inside this system. The case is simply 13 sq. centimeters on the base and 25 centimeters tall, making it massively smaller than my earlier favourite compact PC, the Corsair One.
With that degree of grunt (if something, I’d say the i9 processor is barely overkill for the remainder of the construct), you want critical cooling, and the MegaMini gives this within the type of a built-in liquid loop with a single massive fan. It seems unbelievable; the cooling tubes are sheathed in addressable LED sleeves that shift with RGB lighting to imitate the circulate of coolant. Mixed with its strong steel casing and extra LEDs on the fan and pump block, it’s maybe one of many best-looking compact PCs I’ve ever seen.
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I didn’t get precise pricing particulars on the MegaMini G1 (because it’s nonetheless within the improvement section), nevertheless it’s unlikely to be super-expensive; whereas Tecno isn’t a price range model, it operates primarily within the Asian, South American, and Jap European markets, the place affordability is commonly very important.
With the proper pricing, this dinky Home windows gaming desktop may very well be worthy of standing among the many finest computer systems on the market – although it does have fierce competitors within the tiny pc house, because of Apple’s highly effective 2023 improve of the Mac mini.
As for whether or not the MegaMini G1 will probably be obtainable in North America, the Tecno workforce wasn’t capable of give me a definitive reply – nevertheless it needs to be famous that you could already purchase some Tecno merchandise (together with wi-fi routers and earbuds) on Amazon within the US. It seems just like the model is testing the waters within the American market proper now, and I’m hopeful we’ll see extra of its merchandise floor throughout the Atlantic.
I say this as a result of not solely was I impressed with the sheer compact scale of the G1, however Tecno’s Megabook S1 – a glossy laptop computer that wouldn’t look misplaced among the many finest ultrabooks. The corporate’s thinnest laptop computer but, a particular version of the S1 was on show at IFA, that includes a pearlescent end with hidden branding that glows beneath UV mild. Pointless? Possibly. Cool? You wager.
