I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
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Read moreFor this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
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Read moreRadxa Cubie A7A is billed as an ultra-compact yet feature-rich SBC designed to deliver powerful performance in space-constrained environments.
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Read moreI explore the apps already present on the Volla Phone Quintus, a premium smartphone running Ubuntu Touch.
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Read moreThe NUC BOX-255H has the mobile/embedded class 15th generation Intel Core 7 255H processor, based on the Arrow Lake architecture.
Read moreFor this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 5T single-board computer.
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Read moreThis is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores and 8GB of RAM.
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Read moreFor this article in the series I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.
Read moreIn this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.
Read moreThis is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.
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