Colorful Launches SMART 900 Mini PC, Powered by Flagship Ryzen AI "Strix Halo" APU

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Chinese tech news sites have alluded to the launch of Colorful's brand-new SMART 900 Mini PC in the region. Oddly, the company's various web presences and social media accounts do not mention this diminutive 4-liter (volume) product. At last month's Computex trade show, the TechPowerUp crew happened upon a preview unit—dubbed generically as a "Mini AI PC." The latest press material confirms Colorful's selection of AMD's top-flight 16-core Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU. The Team Red "Strix Halo" mobile series leverages "Zen 5" processor cores and RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics solutions. Colorful has joined a small club of Mini PC providers that deal in Ryzen AI Max-equipped hardware. GMKtec seems to be leading this pack; with last month's global release of configurable EVO-X2 Mini PC pre-builds (starting at $1499).

Zotac is readying a competing Magnus EA (2025) range; the TPU team encountered a 12-core Ryzen AI Max 390-equipped example at Computex 2025. In North America, Framework is still working on getting its "4.5L Mini-ITX" Desktop out of the door—hopefully by the third quarter of this year. Colorful's SMART 900 Mini PC design sports a high quality anodized aluminium chassis. An "excellent" heat dissipation solution is advertised as taking: "advantage of the metal body—ensuring that the system can maintain a low operating temperature and a relatively reasonable noise level under high load." Rival manufacturers have outlined memory configurations of 64 GB or 128 GB LPDDR5X, but Colorful has opted for an unusual in-between 96 GB setup. At the time of writing, no SMART 900 Mini PC pricing information was included in local media reports.



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[bonehead123]

Looks nice and all, but without a FULL spec sheet, interior photos, AND a friggin PRICE, this PR is utterly useless, as usual

Then we will just have to wait on some reviews/test to see if the hype is worth the number of pixels that the PR wasted...

 

[Chomiq]

Looks nice and all, but without a FULL spec sheet, interior photos, AND a friggin PRICE, this PR is utterly useless, as usual

Then we will just have to wait on some reviews/test to see if the hype is worth the number of pixels that the PR wasted...

"GMKtec EVO-X2 with the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU starts at $1,499 in the global market"

Don't expect it to be cheap.

 

[bonehead123]

"GMKtec EVO-X2 with the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU starts at $1,499 in the global market"

Don't expect it to be cheap.

I don't, but before I could make a purchasing decision, full disclosure would have to take place, from ALL aspects....

 

[Chomiq]

I don't, but before I could make a purchasing decision, full disclosure would have to take place, from ALL aspects....

Yeah I get it.

 

[progste]

are we finally seeing strix halo in actual PCs? I've been waiting for a decent laptop with the 395.

 

[bonehead123]

are we finally seeing strix halo in actual PCs? I've been waiting for a decent laptop with the 395.

IIRC, there are some mini-me boxes coming out soon that will feature the 395, so if they can do that, they can make a lappy with it, seeings how the mobos are practically the same in most respects, but we'll see, since it's probably a case of "build it & they will come", hehehe..