- Ninkear Mbox 8 Pro offers performance but with unconventional design choices
- The magnetic bay of the hard drive raises concerns concerning heat management
- High -end specifications meet unconventional storage in this single mini PC
The Ninkear Mbox 8 Pro is a mini modular PC with a detachable reception station for a 3.5 -inch hard drive, offering extensible storage but raising concerns about its practicality, in particular compared to the best laptops.
According to AndroidPC (originally in Spanish), the MBOX 8 PRO design includes a magnetic external hard drive berry with four USB ports, integrating a traditional hard drive instead of relying only on the SSD internal storage that is suitable for the best video editing computers.
However, hard drives generate heat and are more prone to mechanical failure than SSDs, therefore placing one in a closed and magnetically attached base can have an impact on thermal management, making their integration a questionable mini PC.
A bold storage experience
The MBOX 8 Pro is distinguished by its ability to drive three 8K monitors via HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4 and USB4 Type-C, with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and Dual Gigabit Ethernet.
It has a 4 NM AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, an octa-core APU with 38 AI peaks, associated with up to 32 GB of RAM DDR5 and a NVME 1TB SSD.
Combined with the IGPU Radeon 780m, this mini PC offers performance that compete with office computers, management of demanding applications and even 1080p games with ease.
At the price of around € 586, the Ninkear Mbox 8 Pro offers a unique vision of the mini PC market, although its unconventional design choices are not suitable for everyone, in particular those that count on SSDs for speed and stability in video and photo PC workflows.
