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The Latest Android Mini Figure Wood Be Nice to Have
Every so often, the folks at Dead Zebra release a brand new Android mini figurine. The latest adorable collectible features the iconic Android bugdroid mascot in classy wood grain. These little guys, designed by Andrew Bell, are essentially Funko Pop figurines for Android fans. They’re a fun little nod to the operating system’s playful spirit. This most recent Android figure,…
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ASUS’ Latest NUC Mini PC Is Exceptionally Powerful
ASUS just unveiled the NUC 15 Pro+, an impressively powerful mini PC that could make for a fantastic home media server, small-footprint gaming PC, or AI testbed. As its name suggests, the NUC 15 Pro+ is essentially just an upgraded version of the standard ASUS NUC 15 Pro. It’s in a slightly larger 0.7-liter chassis (up from 0.48 liters), and…
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Why Your Next TV May Have Mini LEDs
Mini LEDs in the backlight take the idea of local dimming much further. By shrinking the size of the LEDs, companies can use more of them packed together—thousands of them in each TV. Because the LEDs are so small, there can be a lot of dimming zones—say, a thousand zones, instead of the dozens typically found in even the best…
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Acemagic Vista Mini V1 Mini PC review
The Vista V1 Mini PC is the second mini PC ITPro has tested built around Intel’s new N150 CPU. Like the Beelink S13, it’s an ultra-compact device designed for lightweight general use or with embedded systems, or as a NAS device or a home theatre PC. Again like the Beelink S13, it comes preloaded with a legit version of Windows…
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Govee Mini Panel Lights Review: A Gaming Room Must-Have
Summary Govee’s Mini Panel Lights encourage creativity with endless design possibilities, as long as you have enough lights. Installation is easy with velcro mounts that make changing the layout easy though you may need to invest in more velcro strips. The Govee app is powerful and full of preset designs but comes with a difficult learning curve if you want…
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10 Awesome Things You Can Do With Mini Apps on Canva
Canva has a collection of neat plug-ins called mini apps for simplifying your design workflows. There are hundreds of them, and they’re always adding more, so you can most likely find some that make your design work easy and fun. Allow me to share a few. Boring Text? No More The next time you’re whipping up a quick text-based design…
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The future of mini PCs includes AI acceleration
While Intel stepped back from producing Intel NUCs, ASUS took over the business and continues to innovate in this space, offering powerful and compact solutions for users who need a small PC without sacrificing speed or advanced features. In this review, I’ll be looking at the ASUS NUC 14 Pro AI, a mini PC designed to handle both demanding everyday…
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Satechi’s M4 Mac Mini Hub Is Now Available
Satechi’s exisitng Mac Mini and Mac Studio hub has been a great way to add more ports and storage to those computers. Now, an updated version for the latest M4 Mac Mini is arriving. Satechi has just announced the limited release of its highly anticipated Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub with SSD Enclosure. This was first shown at CES…
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Why I Picked a Mac Mini and an iPad Over the MacBook Air
Summary I started using my MacBook Air with an Apple Studio Display, so switching to the M4 Mac mini made sense for my desk-bound usage. The iPad Pro is a powerful tablet with a gorgeous OLED display and Magic Keyboard compatibility that covers all my portable bases. The Mac mini’s remarkable value, plentiful ports, and Thunderbolt 4 speeds bas transformed…
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Beelink Mini S13 Mini PC review
Chinese Mini PC maker Beelink may not be a name with as much cache as Asus or MSI but it offers a wide range of good-value mini PCs from entry-level boxes to systems built on AMD’s latest Ryzan 9 AI chips. Its latest offering is very much an entry-level box based on one of Intel’s newest and cheapest CPUs, the…
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