Michael's Tinkerings

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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.

System: MacBook Air 15-inch (2026), Apple M5, 16 GB LPDDR5X-9600, macOS 15 GPU: Apple M5 (10 cores, Apple GPU family) Tool: metal-roofline (Swift/Metal compute, runtime-compiled MSL shaders) This is a similar analysis to the Radeon 780M roofline study from

I bought the base model M5 MacBook Air 15-inch. 16GB of unified memory, 512GB of storage.

There was a time when the first thing people did after unboxing a MacBook was partition the drive and install Windows.

System: AceMagic W1 mini PC, AMI BIOS PHXPM7B0, 32GB DDR5-5600, CachyOS iGPU: AMD Radeon 780M (12 CUs, RDNA 3) This is the in-depth analysis companion to Part I, which covers power/thermal tuning and benchmark results.

System: AceMagic W1 mini PC, AMI BIOS PHXPM7B0, 32GB DDR5-5600, CachyOS iGPU: AMD Radeon 780M (12 CUs, RDNA 3) EC: ITE IT5570, single fan cooling solution See also: Part II — GPU Roofline & Bandwidth Analysis for roofline modeling, hardware performance co…

I've been a Windows user for most of my computing life.

I recently upgraded to a UniFi Dream Router 7.

The mini PC market continues to push the boundaries of compact computing, and today I'm examining Kamrui's latest offering built around Intel's 14th generation i5-14450HX processor.

The Problem After deploying a self-hosted Matrix Synapse server using the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy playbook, I encountered a frustrating issue: I couldn't create any public rooms in Element.

Introduction The evolution of M.2-based storage expansion continues with this Lekuo RTL9101-powered SATA HBA card, representing a fundamental architectural shift from previous generation designs.

The mini PC market continues to evolve, and today I'm examining a system built around Intel's 11th generation i9-11900H processor.

Preface The mini PC market has witnessed an arms race of sorts, with manufacturers cramming increasingly powerful processors into compact chassis.

Preface You've probably heard that Solid State Drives (SSDs) are fantastic for "random" data access, a critical performance metric often lauded over traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs).