You see mini PCs all over Amazon and other online tech retailers. They’re usually underpowered, offering the ability to do little other than display a desktop and run a web browser. This tiny desktop PC, however, comes from a Kickstarter campaign by a Hong Kong firm, and it caught our eye by cramming a very decent amount of computing power into a diminutive metal case. It might be an ideal little Photoshop machine.
The Xulu XR1 Max contains a Ryzen 7 processor that’s plenty fast enough for today’s creative apps, and can be specced with up to 64GB of RAM and a 2TB NVMe SSD. There are two 4K HDMI ports, gigabit Ethernet, seven USB ports including a single Type-C, and using this socket’s DisplayPort function means it can connect to three monitors at once. It’s upgradeable too, though this is a fiddly process and not something you’re going to want to do often.
