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For the last four years the cheap end of the mini PC market has been Alder Lake-N: the N95, the N100, the N305, all of them stacks of Gracemont efficiency cores with no performance core anywhere in the design. They were fine. They were also uniformly frustrating in the same
A B650 chipset on a PCIe 4.0 x4 card: four M.2 slots, four SATA ports and four USB ports with no bifurcation required. Measured latency, contention, thermals, and the power connector that silently destroys your array if you forget it.
At $489.99 the Kamrui Hyper H1 walks into a crowded slice of the mini PC market with a spec sheet that looks, on paper, like a mid-range gaming tier compressed into a budget chassis. An AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, 24 GB of LPDDR5-5500, a 1 TB NVMe SSD, a
