GMKtec Mini PC NucBox G5, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake N97 (up to 3.6GHz), 12GB RAM 256GB M.2 SSD, Home, Business, Office Mini Computer with Windows 11 Pro, 4K UHD Dual HDIMI, RJ45-Pink

Antes de comprar eu tinha visto avaliações online e adquiri o produto em Maio desse ano (2025) em uma oferta na Amazon. Fiquei surpreso com o tamanho e pelo desempenho. Sobre o tamanho, é próximo de um cubo mágico e/ou mouse, praticamente cabe na palma da mão e/ou bolso. O desempenho do N97 com 12GB Ram consegue executar várias ações, exemplos: Ver videos em 1080p sem perda de frames, e para fins de testes executei o demo do RE 7 com uns 25 ~ 30 fps em 900p com opções no médio. Vi na internet (Porém ainda não instalei) esse mesmo modelo executando emuladores de PS2 com taxa estável de 60fps em 720p. Por fim eu sou usuário Linux e estou deixando esse mini pc como alternativa para alguns aplicativos que só funcionam no Windows, que por ventura acompanha a licença original. Porém sei que roda Linux também, mas no meu caso já tenho outras máquinas. No geral, tem várias portas e conectividade: 3 x USB 3.0, Bluetooth, WIFI, LAN, SD e 2 HDMI. É uma alternativa interessante de mini pc, com desempenho legal, baixo consumo de energia e não ocupa muito espaço.

This is a pretty amazing little computer! Although it's tiny and therefore very portable, you obviously need a monitor and keyboard/mouse to go with it. We thought we'd try this as a replacement for the little Lenovo laptop that we've had anchored to a desk for most of it's life anyway, as that laptop isn't upgradable to Win11. This one comes with Win11 Pro, so it should be good for the foreseeable future. It is surprisingly much faster than our little laptop, and has been flawless so far. Getting it up and running was easy, and for routine web browsing and light duty work it barely gets even warm. It easily handles Office Pro applications, and I've even successfully run an architectural CAD program on it. It takes a few seconds or so to render and while I prefer running this software on a computer with a little more horsepower, it's certainly doable. It has also easily handled some photographic image editing. I have not tried video editing or gaming, and my guess is it'll struggle more with these, but assuming you have reasonable expectations it's definitely worth the price paid. Hopefully it holds up as long as the several older laptops I have that are about to be retired with Win10. Two of those started life with Win7 and have been going for years. Time will tell.

My gaming laptop ran into some fan troubles that made it unusable during my return to my parents house. At first I thought about buying a casting device for my phone, but then this neat little PC came up for recommendations. After a day or so of research on these types of pcs (and the decent price), I decided to give it a shot. Now let me be clear: I knew from the get-co that this was in no way a “native” gaming, PC nor do I recommend it being used as one (locally anyway). But I did test The Sims 2 Legacy and other retro games, something like that is okay. That all being said, using this lunchbox as a “Cloud-gaming” gaming PC is absolutely perfect in my experience! For AAA games (most games in general really) this is the way to go for this device. Wi-Fi connection is pretty darn good for me so I can’t complain. I’ve tested Xbox CloudGaming, GeForce Now and PlaystationPlus so far. Xbox and GeForce run really solid, while PlayStation is a hit or miss. There’s also another cloud provider called ShadowPC but I didn’t get to try it (may update this when I do). Speed wise, shockingly good for its size. I have it connected with my 34” 175hz monitor and am able to run 99hz. Not bad from what I expected. Style wise, I can’t lie…it’s so gosh darn adorable and matches my old pink desk setup. I remember my mom seeing it for the first time and saying “That little thing is a Computer?!” Haha. Its size and low power/fan makes it feel as if there’s no electronic device near the desk. Usually loud fans from consoles or gaming pcs are something my parents are used to, so this little lunchbox really threw a curveball at their expectations when I said I was ordering a new PC. I’m probably going to leave it with my parents as it’s a great media PC and a handy one for Cloud gaming in case I want to leave my gaming laptop at home.

Minor issue and then… Gmktec responded promptly and took care of my issue.

I just set up two of these in the house: one as a HTPC hooked to a TV, and one to power an arcade machine for retro gaming. I'm really happy for both use cases. For the HTPC, I used the Windows 11 installation that comes installed. The power of this outstrips anything you could possibly need for an HTPC. For retro gaming, this was an upgrade to an old compact PC. Despite the low cost, this upgrade allowed me to use Batocera to run emulators up through the PS2, Dreamcast, and even some Gamecube games at at least native resolution, and in most cases scaled up multiple times and with shaders for smoothing, etc. Don't be misled by the fact that the "N97" number is slightly lower than N100 or N150, and is a couple of years old now. In reality, this has a much stronger GPU than either of these, giving much better performance for gaming stuff (of course you're still not going to be running Cyberpunk 2077 or anything). There's no free lunch, the cost of this extra performance is that it draws 12W at nominal performance, and as much as 19W at peak load, but that's still not a lot of energy.