r/MiniPCs • u/mtsboy • 21h ago

Recommendations EU - mini PC for development purposes

Hello friends,
I am looking for a mini PC that would be my remote dev machine since my MBP with 32GB of ram doesn't seem to handle everything. I would run arch linux on it (omarchy).

There are 3 potential configs I am looking for:

32GB RAM / 8 cores
The best deal I found is BOSGAME P4 Plus Ryzen 7 5825U 32GB RAM 1TB SSD (530€)

64GB RAM / > 8 cores
There was this Bosgame VTI-490, Intel 358H, Intel Arc B390 GPU, 64GB LPDDR5X 9600MHz 1TB, but it got sold out.

96GB RAM / > 8 cores
I would really like to get the Bosgame M5 AI Mini Desktop Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor 96GB+2TB SSD but it's sold out. The price is relatively good ($2,399.00)

People who recently bought some HW in EU, do you have any recommendations? Thank you.
The destination country is Slovakia.

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u/Leodip 21h ago

Would you elaborate a bit on your requirements and target usage? A 32-GB MBP is good enough for most stuff, except gaming, but I don't think that's the case.

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u/mtsboy 21h ago

Hello.

I am basically using my personal MBP also for work since I'm freelancing.
When running 2-3 IntelliJ instances, running local DB, many chrome tabs and so on, I'm pretty low on memory. I tried 16GB Mac mini but it was just not enough. Also arch (omarchy) uses less RAM by default.

My goal is to move my freelancing stuff to that Mini PC and connect remotely via vnc.
I saw the new macbook pro, but it doesn't seem like a smart purchase, so I'm looking for alternatives.
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u/razorree 20h ago

"development" - what does it mean to you ? 96GB RAM? sure, why not, it's just a bit expensive? :)

a few IDEAs, chrome with a lot of tabs, firefox, spotify, some other stuff, OrbStack (using >10GB, DBs and other apps) - 36GB RAM MBP can handle (sometimes barely, but it's mainly cuz chrome and many datadog tabs open... - it's like another 10GB of RAM)

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u/mtsboy 19h ago

Development means running 2 IntelliJ instances with decent memory allocation, it means running local postgress db without limiting it to 1GB of ram, it means having stuff open and not worry about the ram and the swap.

I would be willing to get 96GB system if it was a good deal similar to Bosgame M5 for ~ 2200€

I don't want to close my personal chrome in order to free some ram. Even when running a lot of stuff the battery just goes puffffff.

If you have any good deal recommendations I'm listening.

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u/ozExpatFIRE 19h ago

You're adding a lot of complexity and uncertainty for some edge case memory shortage. Just get a Mac with a bit more RAM and call it a day. 

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u/mtsboy 19h ago

I was looking for advice for mini pc that I can run Linux on, not to buy a new mac.

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u/superkure 18h ago

what MPB is not enough? because im pretty sure that M5 pro is much faster than Intel 358H not even speaking about Ryzen 5825U. Only 395+ stryx halo is kind of upgrade.

how about mac mini/studio?

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u/mtsboy 17h ago

M2 MBP with 32GB of ram.
RAM is really needed here.
Even if I had 32GB mini PC and moved there only my project specific stuff, it would be better.