Running large language models locally has become much easier over the past couple of years, but a gap remains between downloading a model and having a useful desktop environment for it. Jan describes itself as a ChatGPT alternative, offering an open-source desktop app with a familiar chat-style interface that keeps most of the setup inside
The ASUS ExpertCenter PN55 is the AMD side of ASUS’s commercial mini PC line, a 130 x 130 x 34mm box that puts a Ryzen AI 400 Series processor, two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots, two M.2 2280 slots, and dual 2.5GbE behind a fingerprint reader and a Copilot key. Our review unit runs the Ryzen AI
The ASUS NUC 16 Pro moves the NUC Pro line from a 4×4-inch footprint to 5×4 inches, and ASUS spends the extra inch on a second M.2 slot, a second 2.5GbE port, and a cooling stack of two exhaust fans, a dedicated DIMM fan, and three heat pipes. Our review unit pairs the Intel Core
We’ve taken a look at a couple of GB300 DGX Stations now, and recently had two of them physically in our lab at the same time: the ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 and the HP ZGX Fury AI Station. With both towers sitting next to each other, we wanted to connect them and see what
The Lenovo Yoga Mini is a 130mm aluminum puck, 48.6mm tall and about 600 grams, that fits Intel’s 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H, 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533, and Arc B390 graphics into 0.65 liters. That is the same Panther Lake silicon Intel has been shipping in this year’s thin-and-light notebooks, moved to a desk with two
When we went deep on Dell PowerStore Gen 3 earlier this year, the story was hardware, and there was plenty of it. Dell rebuilt the platform from the chassis up: 40 E3.S NVMe bays in 3U with no slots burned on cache, a 200GbE RDMA midplane between controllers that is decoupled from CPU generations, Software-Defined
Deskside AI systems built on NVIDIA’s GB10 have one job, and they do it well: put 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of compute on a desk close enough to the person using it that iteration is instant. What they don’t have is a connection to the storage an organization already runs. Every DGX
The Solidigm D5-P5430 is the mainstream tier of Solidigm’s QLC data center line. It’s the drive that sits below the capacity-maximizing D5-P5336 and carries a smaller indirection unit for the mixed and small-block write workloads a 16KB-IU drive handles poorly. We reviewed the 15.36TB P5430 at launch in 2023, when the story was the jump
The NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition is the card NVIDIA built primarily to replace the L4 in servers that live outside the data center: single-slot, PCIe Gen5, passively cooled, 165W, with 32GB of GDDR7 and the full Blackwell feature set, including FP4 Tensor Cores and Multi-Instance GPU. HPE sent us a ProLiant DL145
The ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 is the second GB300 DGX Station we’ve tested and the first we’ve had hands-on in the lab; our MSI XpertStation WS300 testing ran remotely. It uses the same NVIDIA silicon we tested in the MSI XpertStation WS300: a Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with 72 Grace cores, a B300
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