so I've got with me here a very interesting Mini PC because it's modular it's called the Khadas
Mind and this is the brains of it right here tiny Mini PC as you can see it's small but it
packs quite a bit of power so we have within it 32 gigabytes of LPDDR5 Ram that's running
at 5200 megahertz a terabyte SSD you can add an additional SSD and I'll go over that in this video
and it does have Iris XC graphics with the 1360p that it does run here that's its chipset so it's
from Intel to core i7 it's got 16 threads maximum turbos five gigahertz and you're probably thinking
well integrated Graphics Iris XE so how is this interesting it's not going to be that powerful
it's definitely not going to be for gaming well this is where it gets really cool because it's a
modular PC they have what is called Mind graphics and you can simply just plug this unit here the
Mind into that graphics and you've got dedicated graphic stands it will turn it into a gaming Mini
PC production Powerhouse then but what I do have with me is the Mind dock so this adds a lot of i
o we've now got a lot more ports with this right here it simply plugs in it then adds speakers a
volume control fingerprint reader our Lan port on there too and it allows us then combined with both
of them together to run four displays at 60 hertz so 4K 60 hertz which is fantastic here is what is
included with the Mind portable workstation so you'll find a type c to type c cable we have
just a little bit of paperwork in here so the introduction to the Mind portable workstation
and a warranty card and a power supply so this does support power delivery you can see it's
very small it's 65 Watts this particular unit so great that it's nice and compact
and our brains are this whole portable workstation modular Mini PC is this the mind so the mind has
a power button here on the front with status LED now it's got a built-in battery now this is great
because what it allows you to do is swap it and move it about now the battery it's not used for
running it it's for keeping it in standby and that's up to five hours so imagine you have
this at your workplace you can simply just unplug it and it will keep you where exactly where you
are with all your work and everything take it home with you plug it in again and you just continue on
from there so it's a Middle Design to it now we've got the core i7 the 1360p within this 32 gigabytes
of LP ddr5 Ram running at 5 200 megahertz and in a terabyte SSD so you see here this is the exit vent
all the hot air is going to come out of this side here on the left the cooling and it seems to be
very good so far and I'll get onto those thermals and give you the exact results of all my tests and
benchmarks and everything later on in the video this is the intake where the cooler is sucked in
through this part right here and in the back of it we have all of these different ports here now you
can see we've got two USB threes there now these are USB 3.2 gen twos HDMI 2.0 and then two uh
spect full spec here type c ports so this one here is the fastest that's USB 3.2 Gen 2 so it's got
a power delivery support video out 8K 30 you can run 4K 120 hertz and here we have power delivery
and video out and then USB 2 with this type c Port here on the outside so with all of the ports and
then the dot combined with all the display outs you can run four 4K monitors at 60 hertz which is
great in the underside here you will find the Mind link now this is a very quick disconnection and
they do say that it's rated for up to ten thousand uh uses here that you can insert it into the mined
Graphics which is the optional dedicated graphics with Thunderbolt that you can use to really just
to prove that graphics performance instead of using the iris X the graphics just relying on
that and then the oi dock which I will show you shortly which is the Mind dock so it's very quick
there this is going to give us a lot of speed there's no bottlenecks through this port and
I'm looking forward to the other future add-ons they will have for this modular Mini PC setup
there is this so for expandability if you want to add another SSD in this so by default you get the
one terabyte it's pcie 4.0 and pressing down here it's a magnet that keeps this little lid in place
it pops up really nice design to it in fact the build quality of everything here is really good
you'll find a 2230 sized SSD Bay here now it's pcie 3.0 so not as fast as the internal one you
can add up to two terabytes and in the inside of it you could swap out that one terabyte drive
and add a two terabyte So in theory we can have four terabytes of storage in total with the mind
then the doc for it which is called the Mind Doc and this is an oi dock that adds quite a lot so we
have this high quality little volume knob here too so it's got there if you tap it down a mute button
and then volume up and down it feels really good I like the feeling of this and a fingerprint scanner
there too so you don't need a key in passwords if you've got the Mind dock you can simply use
that and you'll see that right up the front here we have a status LED for it then a SD card now
this SD card slot does support speeds of up to 200 megabytes per second a USB 3.2 here type A so it's
great for the ports and just before I show you the rear of it where we have all the rest of the ports
I'll show you how it slots in here and it's really well designed so you simply just need to line it
up and there's a magnet that will pull it into place correctly and then just give it a gentle
little push down on the top and that's it it sits in place there and it's a very tidy great looking
unit and on the back we've got two USB 3.2 gen choose their type A's another two HDMI ports so
there are HDMI 2.0 spec so we can run using here the type C ports and then those HDMI ports you
can run four 4K 60 displays which is brilliant and then we've got 2.5 gigabit Lan here that is from
Realtek and this type c this is our power and for the dock so really good and as I mentioned before
it's got that internal battery so if you have it sitting in the dock maybe at your workplace and
then you want to take it home with you well it's very easy just to Simply give this a little pull
up and then there we go you're free to roam about and move about and take this home with you the
mind which is our brains of the whole thing here we are with our bias now unfortunately this is
pretty much locked down to us now if you go into the power and performance menu here you'll see the
CPU power management well there's nothing that we can change like an overclocking menu to undervolt
I've tried also throttle stop and Intel's XTU there is no way to under Vault that I can see
unless they do allow us to do this so under chip system agent memory configuration you can tweak
timings or anything like that either Graphics configuration is probably the only useful setting
here for the ira60 graphics you can allocate a little bit more if you wanted to do so so you
could go on here and say hey you know what I want to give this 160 megabytes and change the aperture
size to a gigabyte there if you wanted to do so so that's really the only thing are your security
there secure Boot and your boot order so here we are up and running with Windows 11 home so
it's not running Pro and I did run all the updates there were a few which is normal with windows so
looking at the device manager there just are a few things I wanted to point out when it comes to what
we have on board so the fingerprint reader this one is an Elan and great to have that so this is
of course what you gain with the dock you get the extra ports on it you get the fingerprint reader
the volume controls they all showed you all that stuff there and that real tech gaming USB it's a
2.5 gigabit Lan on there so if you need the Lan you've got that with the dock which is great and
of course the processor so this is going to show up here 16 times because it has well the 12 cores
but the 16 threads in total and a little bit more information on that you'll see it right here so
the maximum speed is five gigahertz and it's a 28 watt part and you will see that later on
that it pulls the 28 Watts I've been monitoring The Thermals which I'll talk about very shortly
well that's so the internal storage that 2230 Drive these are good speeds considering how small
this particular Drive is normally the smaller the drives uh the more restrictions they have in terms
of speed there but for PCO 4.0 okay the speed's at the fastest but for this size drive it is good
because I see a lot of ones that really suffer on the right speeds but these rights here from this
Western Digital it's the sn740 very good A lot of the times you'll see over 5000 megabytes read but
then the rights will only be 2 000 or 3000 but no they are almost the same as the right there the
randoms are also very good there too so great performance from the built-in SSD and remember
we do have another pcie but it's a 3.0 slot 2230 as well if you wanted to expand upon the storage
so the ram that's in this unit is running a dual channel 32 gigabytes of it it's not
upgradable and great that they've given us 32 a lot of Brands they seem to just ship out with
16 gigabytes of RAM and that'll be of the same spec too the lp ddr5 Ram at the 5.2 gigahertz
so good that that is there with the 32 straight off the bat you don't have to worry about having
to upgrade it but of course you can't do that anyway so General performance it goes without
saying really everything's quick and snappy multitasking is very good I've not noticed
any slowdown Now video decoding playback of a very demanding file 4K 10 bit here 140 megabits
per second and you'll see that it doesn't drop any frames it's very smooth although
funny enough it just did a bit of a stutter there but that's to do with Windows and Intel
just when it minimized the controls there for the video player so it's not actually
the fault of this unit here too so video decoding playback is very good with these demanding files
like anything you throw at it vp92 is going to be running fine now this is 4K 60 frames per second
and that is not dropping any frames at all I will just skip ahead to show you that performance is
excellent as expected for this chipset it's quite potent it's got the 16 threads five gigahertz
turbo everything is running really well but what about our thermals which I've been monitoring now
for the last 13 hours so it did reach 94 degrees Celsius you can see it's pulled almost 33 Watts
our power limits just to confirm 28 watts and 64 so they haven't lowered it down that would
reduce the performance no good they have not done that and the fan noise well it sounds a little bit
like an Ultrabook under load so here's a sample of it and a full load here running a stress test
and some benchmarks now I normally like to show you cinebench R23 but for some odd weird kind
of reason it always has this Arrow no matter what I do to launch it I've tried different
versions downloaded it and extracted it all and it's always just the same problem I spent a lot
of time actually trying to solve that issue and I don't know what is going on there so I've got here
geekbench at least six and you can see from that single core score they're almost 2500 that adds
excellent performance so great performer there with the five gigahertz turbo the core A7 1360p
because it's got the 16 threads it's also very good at multitasking nearing up towards the 10
000 Mark there which is excellent that puts it in line with some of the ryzen 7s that have
the eight cores and 16 threads too very similar multi-core scores there so it's quite a Powerhouse
considering how small it is it's packing quite a bit so integrated Graphics is the weakness but
we can solve this issue of course if you get yourself the Mind Graphics dock which
will be out later on unfortunately it's not on hand for me to test it but that is where you
can really boost up this performance now comparing the score of almost 17
000 for integrated graphics with Knight raid here 3D Mac that puts it on par with pretty
much all of the other Iris XC graphics with the 96 executional units the same goes for the time
spy score here getting a graphic score there of close to 1700 and a score of around I think 2
000 is the highest I've seen from this chipset it's not that far off so again on average it's
about what you would expect out of the iris XE Graphics so if you do need more in terms
of performance maybe you're going to be editing some videos or you want to turn this into a little
gaming Mini PC definitely go for the graphic stock video editing this is something that it can handle
even without the addition of that graphic stock the dedicated graphics with the ira60 graphics
you can see this is a basic video of mine a review that has very little in terms of grading in fact
there's nothing I believe not nothing there with grading and very little just b-roll so it handles
us just fine I've got the playback resolution set here too cooler so this is not holding it up it
doesn't seem to drop any frames and it's the iris XC Graphics that's helping out now export times
I'll do my standard test here which is a minute of footage at the 4K preset for YouTube and we'll see
how long it takes it should be around or under the 30 second marker definitely with this spec
okay so it's about to finish up and there we go that was about 30 seconds you could say after my
little delay there now if you do get again the dedicated graphics dock for this then it will be
much better a lot quicker here at encoding 4K video the editing will be a lot better too as
well using the Cuda cores instead of just relying on the 1360ps and integrated Graphics the iris XE
then gaming now this is The Witcher 3 the latest expansion pack with all the high-res textures and
they improved a lot of things with it the enhanced Edition basically and you see only 33 frames per
second in this very demanding area of the map one of the largest cities a lot of NPCs around
there's a lot here to render so temperatures are normally in the late 70s early 80s when gaming
with the iris XE graphics and you'll see that it's at 100 the load here of the iris XC graphics
so this part the frame rate's not amazing you can just kind of play this game ideally I would
love to have 60 frames per second but if you do again get that graphic stock you want the graphics
performance plug that in and then you'll be able to game at 1080p with really good frames and even
1440p nothing like this Grand Theft Auto 5 there's a 1080p with the settings set to normal and the
viewing distance and The Pedestrian density and everything else in the middle here so just get
out of the car we should see out of the car here probably about 70 frames per second which it is
so that puts it on par with other Iris XE systems that I've tested out with the 96 executional units
now it does have those built-in speakers in the mind Dock and this is great because it
means that you don't have to worry about taking along some external speakers because most many
PCs they don't have built-in speakers in fact pretty much all of them don't I'd say at least
95 of them so they're in there they sound pretty good I'd rate these as pretty much like speakers
you'd find in a gaming laptop so here's a sample of them at about 80 volume just to give you an
idea what they sound like they're good they've got a bit of bass to them too as well [Music]
thank you as for Linux support well I managed to boot it up you can see this is Linux Manjaro using
the open source drivers the problem I ran into is with the internet so for some reason it's not
showing or detecting the wireless 6E card that's from Intel it doesn't seem to want to show up
there for some reason but I think with a little bit of patience you should be able to get this up
and running now the Mind dock that is working so I can enable mute adjust the volume so that's not
a problem so there we go that is the cajada's mind I think this is a fantastic idea having
a modular PC set up and it really does add to the upgradability of many PCs which is normally a bit
well complicated you normally cannot upgrade the graphics they're normally all integrated Graphics
anyway but the fact that we can get the Mind graphics and simply just drop the mind on top of
that modular dedicated GPU is fantastic and I hope I do get my hands on that if I do manage to get it
they send it out to me I will most certainly have a follow-up video testing that out showing you
what it's all about I'll give you the temperatures what kind of performance you can expect from it
the dock I love this idea as well it adds speakers fingerprint reader volume controls which make it
really easy just to adjust it on the Fly and then you get those additional ports on there too so
with the current setup with the Mind dock here and the mind you can run four displays at 4K 60
which is great and it runs with power delivery so if you've got other power delivery charges
maybe one in your office one at your home you can simply move about with it and because it's
got the battery within it it won't disconnect and you don't have to worry about it suddenly powering
off and you lose all your data either if you do get a power cut because it will still be up and
running in standby mode for up to five hours it gives you plenty of time to simply just lift it
off the dock and take it home with you if you were using the dock at say your workplace or something
and they're going to have the other modular units they are the add-ons for it so there will be like
a screen like this that you'll be able to plug the Mind into it have a built-in battery for it that
is fantastic my only areas area of criticism of this really is the SSD drive size unfortunately
it's the 22 millimeters by 30 millimeters making it a little bit Limited in the capacities and
speeds we can get they're a little bit more expensive I would have loved to have seen a
full-size SSD in here but as it is the size of it you can see the the engineering engineering side
of things it would have made it really complicated to be able to try and fit that in there so it's a
bit of a compromise there but it's not too bad and if you really wanted huge capacity well you
could go up to four terabytes if you upgrade the drive that's already installed and add a
pcie 3.0 drive with the two terabytes you can get four terabytes in total with the Mind here so I
think this is a great little mini PC and I'm so looking forward to testing out that mind Graphics
thanks a lot for watching this review and I do hope to see you back in the next one bye for now