Does anyone here no anything about these mini pcs ? namely the GEEKOM A5 Mini ! i gather they have a Radeon 8 graphics and AMD Ryzen 7 5800H processor and 32 ram and 512 SSD so what is the experts here opinion of it ? I currently run 3 desktops HP i5 processor 32 gig memory 1tb and 225 SSD on two and 16 gig memory 500ssd. same processor i5 and Windows 11 on all three now
Excuse the delay, I had missed this. Looked in to search if anyone had experience with mini-convertible Chinese brand Chuwi which I'm planning to try out during the holidays.
On your question, I don't know GEEKOM, but I have seen them as a competitor in shopping for my 2 Intel NUCs and then some. I've run one NUC for several years -an i7/16gb 5th gen one, with a 256gb SSD and a 2TB hd. The more recent one is a mostly-music and media-streaming Celeron/16gb one, with a 512gb SSD only. Both are great and plenty. Both are connected to a single versatile ASUS 27" monitor, and a compact DVD drive is attached alternatively to one or the other.
I've been a mini-PC guy for a bunch of years, having used a little-larger Fujitsu mini for several years before the NUCs became available with with which I ran my mgmt-consulting and data-analysis business.
Your options sound more powerful than any Intel systems I've used. I have no experience at all with either Radeon or AMD, but I see no need for big boxes for any hardware as it's really about the processing your/my/the software requires and no more as I've seen and experienced it. I've also always favored mini for any portable computing I've done over the decades, by the by.