The Chinese manufacturer Minisforum continues to produce compact computers at a good pace and has now expanded one of its most successful lines with the Minisforum UM690 Pro.

It is a model that maintains the reduced size of the UM690 series at 18.2 x 16.3 x 11.4 cm, allowing install it anywhere from the desk, in the office, kiosk or living room if you use it for home theater. Like most Mini-PCs, it supports the VESA standard, so it can be mounted on a wall or behind computer monitors.

The processor is responsible for your hardware base AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX. It’s a two-year-old Zen 3+ CPU, but it packs enough power for this type of device with its 8 cores/16 threads, 3.3GHz base clock and up to 4.9GHz turbo, and integrated Radeon 680M graphics. 2,400 MHz card It is accompanied by up to 64 GB of DDR5 memory.

The differences from the previous models of the UM690 series, in addition to the new cooling system, begin in the storage area. And Minisforum changed the SATA connector for hard drives in exchange for inclusion dual M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 SSD connector. Definitely a good choice.

There are also improvements in connectivity. The manufacturer doubled the number of 2.5 GbE LAN ports from one to two, released the USB4 standard and installed a wireless card that supports Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. It supports a larger number of displays, up to four in total, or three 8K/60Hz displays along with one 4K/60Hz display. Other ports come from:

• 1 x HDMI 2.1 (4K/60Hz).
• 1 x DisplayPort 1.4 (8K/60Hz).
• 2 USB4 ports (40 Gb/s via DisplayPort alternative mode).
• 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A.
• 1 3.5 mm audio.
• 1 DC power input.

Minisforum UM690 Pro is available in several configurations. You can find it on their website from $349 in Barebone format, where the user puts their own memory and storage. If you are looking for already assembled configurations, you can find different offers in the Spanish retail channel. Highlights include 32GB of DDR5 memory and 1TB of SSD each 579 euros.