The Geekom A9 Max earns its name. Not only is there buckets of power here, but all the ports you could ever desire and a clear upgrade path should you want to add even more memory and storage. Yet Gee

SMALL BUT MIGHTY A new challenger enters the battle for the thinnest and lightest laptop – and this one’s packing some power within its svelte frame

Unlike the Lenovo IdeaCentre opposite and Geekom A9 Max overleaf, HP has business rollouts on its mind with the EliteDesk 8 Mini. It comes in both Intel (G1) and AMD (G1a) variants, and in either case

Middle class Chinese manufacturer GMKtec is now well established in the world of mini PCs. Its NucBox K11 remains our favourite mini machine (£830 from www.snipca. com/54341, see page 32). The new M5

If you want to know the direction in which technology is heading, there’s only one place to be every January: walking the many halls of CES in Las Vegas. This is where you’ll find over 4,000 exhibitor

Flat out It’s a surprise that it’s taken so long for a major brand to build a mini PC around Qualcomm’s energy-efficient Snapdragon X chips, but Lenovo has finally done it with the IdeaCentre Mini x G