City apartments don’t offer a ton of living space. So if you find yourself in either a one bedroom or studio, you’re going to have to make some tough decisions surrounding how every square inch gets used. This is especially true when it comes to your desk setup. It may not be worth it for you to dedicate a tone of surface area to a huge PC tower. Go with a mini instead. The Geekom Mini PC AX8 Max is currently on sale for 29% off. It’s normally priced at $749 but has come down to just $529. That saves you a staggering $220.
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AAA Gaming on a Mini PC
This compact case measuring in at only 5.4 by 5.1 by 1.7 inches contains a full-on PC powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU and AMD Radeon 780M graphics card. As far as mobile integrated GPUs go, this one is pretty darn good. You might actually be able to play some of the more demanding games out there like Cyberpunk 2077 so long as you keep it in minimum graphics settings. And then lots of smaller indie titles should play pretty smoothly. You can actually even connect the AX8 Max to an AMD discrete graphics card over one of the USB-C ports to improve your graphics further. The mini PC has also got a fair amount of memory with its 32GB of RAM plus a full 1TB of storage on its PCle SSD.
Mini PCs are pretty perfect for your “everyday” computer tasks. By that I mean the day-to-day stuff like browsing the web, sending out emails, queuing up a YouTube video, or doing anything you need in Microsoft Office apps like PowerPoint, Excel, or Word.
With the two USB-C ports and the two HDMI ports, you can actually connect to up to four displays at once without the help of a dedicated docking station. Over USB-C, you can achieve an 8K resolution at 30Hz while the HDMI 2.0 ports can get you 4K resolution at 60Hz. And since the PC is so small, you can just mount the whole thing to the back of one of your monitors, taking up no surface area on your desk at all.
The Geekom AX8 Max can be set to three different modes, based on your needs in the moments. First up is the default mode. Not much to say there. Next we have quiet mode which can reduce power consumption and noise. Great for some light office work or while studying and needing to focus. Then we have performance mode which is optimized for AAA gaming.
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