Better Mac Mini than the Mac Mini - Slimbook One Review

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This is the Slimbook One, and it's a small form factor desktop. It looks really good, and it packs a surprising punch for its size. Let's see what that thing can do.

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00:00 Intro 01:22 Disclaimer 01:40 The Device 03:31 The Specs 04:54 Performance 06:38 Insides 07:23 Slimbook One vs Mac Mini 09:49 Parting Thoughts

The device

The Slimbook One is pretty small for a fully fledged desktop. It's a 20x20 cm square, 5 cm high. It's fully made out of sliver aluminium, and it weighs 1.2kg.

It looks super stylish. That small case has a small Slimbook logo on the top, and is neatly perforated on the top and the side, as well as the bottom, for maximum airflow. The front is really simple, with a power button and 2 USB 2.0 ports. At the back, you can screw 2 included antennas for the Intel AX200 WIfi and bluetooth card, which supports Wifi 6 and Bluetooth 5.

A full gigabit ethernet port, 2 USB 3 ports, 2 more USB 2 ports, a USB-C that also does display port, an HDMI and a full displayport, as well as an audio jack and a separate 3.5 mm microphone jack.

You also get the power input, which is a barrel charger.

Specs and performance

Ok, but what's inside that case? The base model has 8Gb of RAM, 250 Gb of SSD, and a ryzen 7 4800H, with vega 7 graphics running at 1600Mhz. You can spec it out a lot more though, with up to 64GB of RAM, and 4 TB of SSD (2TB NVME, 2Tb Sata). The RAM and the storage are user upgradeable as well.

So, how does it perform?

On Geekbench 5, it reached a score of 1285 in single core, and 8364 in multi core. It beats my Slimbook Pro X 14 in multi-core, with a nice margin of 14%.

Being an 8 core CPU, you can definitely hear it a bit when it's really going though.

In terms of SSD, the disks I got have relatively good read / write speeds. Running KDiskMark, I got speeds of 2213 Mb/s Read and 1400 MB/s write for a 1GB sequential test, with ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCBjgl_ndo