News Modular AMD Hawk Point mini PC showcased at CES — its easy to swap the case panels, RAM, and dual-SSDs but the CPU is soldered

[Admin]

Chinese rugged PC manufacturer Emdoor introduces its own modular mini PC design.

Modular AMD Hawk Point mini PC showcased at CES — its easy to swap the case panels, RAM, and dual-SSDs but the CPU is soldered : Read more

 

[Notton]

...the motherboard is so easily removable compared to the majority of mini PC designs...

Having owned several consumer mini-PCs, I can tell you they aren't hard to remove at all.
No, the hard part is finding a replacement heatsink or fan that'll still fit with the lid on.

 

[usertests]

Those two CPUs are also rebadged Ryzen 7 7840U and Ryzen 7 7845HS, respectively, which makes the additional renaming cycle quite egregious.

The NPU in Hawk Point is rated for 16 TOPS, a large if not Copilot+ level improvement. They also seemingly performed better than expected compared to Phoenix, maybe from a newer stepping, not sure if that was ever fully investigated though.