The TUXEDO Nano Pro is a powerhouse in a tiny box

This kind of box could be really interresting to me, but not at this price tag and I will wait for the Ryzen 6000 series APU/CPU release and benchmarks. With the DDR5 speed bump, it seems it's going to be a great upgrade over the 5000 series, so I read.

Edit: Didn't take notice of the price tag, since it's in EUR; not going to buy one.


Last edited by Mohandevir on 4 November 2021 at 5:58 pm UTC

Going up to 16gb of memory increases the base price to 690. (EUR)

If you also want the 500gb storage, base price is 720. (EUR) (about 833 US dollars)

I would have serious buyers remorse if I purchased this over a steam deck. With the deck I get true use portability along with docking to become a standalone machine.

Where I work we deploy Lenovo mini towers which admittedly aren't as cool as this because they aren't really upgradeable. The thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons. The first con being you cant upgrade the power supply and add in a video card so it doesn't make sense for a true gaming machine. On the other end, for the cost -- you could just build a standard tower for much cheaper though isn't portable... Also with the standard build tower you can get a entry level to decent spec power supply and video card set up for less cost. My most recent build was around 670 US dollars.

If you need portability you most likely don't need it to be a gaming system. So there are many cheaper options out there to accomplish this.

That doesn't mean this doesn't have pros -- for myself I don't see a need for this use case. It is great to see Tuxedo coming out with this though. Ill look forward to checking out some reviews on it either way. You never know!


Last edited by twinsonian on 4 November 2021 at 2:14 pm UTC

Going up to 16gb of memory increases the base price to 690. (EUR)

If you also want the 500gb storage, base price is 720. (EUR) (about 833 US dollars)

I would have serious buyers remorse if I purchased this over a steam deck. With the deck I get true use portability along with docking to become a standalone machine.

Where I work we deploy Lenovo mini towers which admittedly aren't as cool as this because they aren't really upgradeable. The thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons. The first con being you cant upgrade the power supply and add in a video card so it doesn't make sense for a true gaming machine. On the other end, for the cost -- you could just build a standard tower for much cheaper though isn't portable... Also with the standard build tower you can get a entry level to decent spec power supply and video card set up for less cost. My most recent build was around 670 US dollars.

If you need portability you most likely don't need it to be a gaming system. So there are many cheaper options out there to accomplish this.

That doesn't mean this doesn't have pros -- for myself I don't see a need for this use case. It is great to see Tuxedo coming out with this though. Ill look forward to checking out some reviews on it either way. You never know!

It would be nice if the next step in Valve's hardware offering was a dedicated next gen AMD console like PS5 or Xbox Series X (performance and hardware wise). Who knows, if the Steam Deck is a success? Not keeping my hopes too high though.

It would be nice if the next step in Valve's hardware offering was a dedicated next gen AMD console like PS5 or Xbox Series X (performance and hardware wise). Who knows, if the Steam Deck is a success? Not keeping my hopes too high though.

Steam Machines 2?

It would be nice if the next step in Valve's hardware offering was a dedicated next gen AMD console like PS5 or Xbox Series X (performance and hardware wise). Who knows, if the Steam Deck is a success? Not keeping my hopes too high though.

Steam Machines 2?

Yeah, but built by Valve with the same agressive pricing that fueled the Steam Deck. Not the overpriced and underpowered offering of the original batch. If the Steam Deck is successful (we got indicators that it could be), it would create a context really different to what was in 2015... So, who knows?

Edit: But since the initial failure of the Steam Machines, I wouldn't use that name again. Steam Box maybe?


Last edited by Mohandevir on 4 November 2021 at 3:39 pm UTC

Yeah, but built by Valve with the same agressive pricing that fueled the Steam Deck. Not the overpriced and underpowered offering of the original batch. If the Steam Deck is successful (we got indicators that it could be), it would create a context really different to what was in 2015... So, who knows?

Edit: But since the initial failure of the Steam Machines, I wouldn't use that name again. Steam Box maybe?

They mostly will considering a possible success scenario of deck, and they have way more chances of being successful this time due to the improvement of Linux gaming scenario compared back to 2014.

What I also expect is to see some competitors like Epic or EA also attempting to join this market (maybe partnered with Nvidia or Intel), or Google doing something similar with Android and ARM.

A picture of an electronic device on fire is an interesting method of advertising...

the perfect digital signage solution for digital media content in advertising and information systems

The perfect what now?

I laugh at this offer.This is just a waste of money.I can use my money to Martixmachine which is very popular in Mars and it uses martix, a linux-based OS.Can you believe it?Soon you will see when the clock strikes midnight and all the earthlings will see flying saucers in the sky.It will be a beginning for beatiful friendship end it will be the end for the Microsoft's tyranny. So the mankind embraces the freedom of Linux! Well all this could happen but only in dreams ofc. But seriously speaking this is very intresting machine but I still prefer Steam Deck over this. Besides I look for upgrades for my pc first before I buy new one. But I hope success for TUXEDO.

Tuxedo has interesting products, but since they're EU-based, the shipping costs are prohibitive for me. I am using an Intel NUC for my living room PC needs. They offer it without OS (no MS-tax!), and it runs just fine with Linux.

The thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons.

The specific feature of this form factor is that they can fit on a VESA mount so they have zero footprint. Like an all-in-one, but trivially serviceable: take one off, put another one on.

€640 for entry level is a steep price. With that amount you can get a Deskmini X300 with a desktop 5600G CPU which makes for a much faster mini PC.

I imagine this system uses too much power for my taste, details are a bit sparse but it comes with a 90W power supply. All I want to do is watch video on my TV, I don't play games on it, so it doesn't make sense to run a system that draws this much power. Intel has systems that are ~15W, but AMD doesn't have anything competing in this space.

Also way to expensive.

The RAM options are not good. 3200Mhz CL22? And the basic model only has one stick? Oh, boy...

When I started with linux I thought that machines that come with linux preinstalled should be cheaper, because the windows license is not in the price included. Instead they are much more expensive and offer only nvidia graphic cards, because nvidia is the number one fun hardware for linux users.


Last edited by Cioranix on 5 November 2021 at 1:30 am UTC

Looks like a rebrand of the ASRock to me:
https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4X4%20BOX-4800U

I had a forum post about (fanless) sofa-pc with a Asus PN50 which is more or less the same thing. I updated the ASUS with a fanless case "Akasa Turing A50".

Not bad, but the Samsung SSD is not so good for Linux (Phoronix News.

The thing is these small form factor machines are pretty cool for their size but they fall in a weird middle ground area of cons.

The specific feature of this form factor is that they can fit on a VESA mount so they have zero footprint. Like an all-in-one, but trivially serviceable: take one off, put another one on.

I always wonder: What would I do with the space spared under my table?
I don't get the whole class of devices, as I see the compromises made (choose some of performance, noise, extendability), but not the gain.

I've been periodically looking for something relatively small yet powerful to run a local NAS, a local Git server, and various other servers that my family can use as a central place for photos, music, etc.

This machine is way overkill for these purposes, but at the same time, I like the ability to upgrade the internals.

a secondary SATAIII drive up to 4TB

It looks like you can configure up to 8TB.

This is interesting if you want to support a Linux PC vendor and you live in the EU, otherwise, aliexpress is absolutely riddled with such tiny format PCs(which Tuxedo probably OEMs from) for much cheaper. I configured an almost carbon copy of this with Ryzen 4500u, 16GB RAM, and 500GB SSD for just under 700€ while the same config of this one is 820€, although admittedly it comes with faster 3200MT/s RAM instead of 2666MT/s.