This €372 pocket-sized pc outmuscles desktops twice its price
Firebat just proved that raw power no longer needs a shoebox-sized case. The Mini PC F1 Pro, currently listed at €372 on AliExpress, crams an 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 H 255 and DDR5 memory into a chassis small enough to hide behind a monitor—and the benchmarks are laughing at full-sized towers costing twice as much.
Inside the shrink ray
AMD’s 6 nm APU delivers 16 threads at 4.2 GHz boost while sipping 35 W. That efficiency translates to Cinebench R23 multi-core scores hovering around 14 000, territory normally occupied by 65 W desktop chips that need a brick of a cooler. 16 GB of 5 600 MT/s DDR5 feeds the integrated Radeon 780M GPU, giving Premiere Pro 4K timeline scrubbing that feels like discrete-card territory.
Storage is a 512 GB PCIe 4.0 SSD that reads north of 7 GB/s, so Windows 11 Pro boots to desktop in eight seconds flat. Firebat even left the spare M.2 2280 slot unpopulated—pop in a second drive and you have a mobile render node disguised as a paperback book.
Ports that embarrass laptops
One USB-C 4.0 port pushes 40 Gbps and can drive two 4K displays at 144 Hz from a single cable. Wi-Fi 6E plus a 2.5 GbE jack turns the living-room TV into a wire-free NAS killer. Try finding that combo on a €1 200 ultraportable.
Heat? A vapor chamber and dual 60 mm fans keep the Ryzen at 72 °C under sustained load. The noise floor sits below 32 dB—library territory.
The price guillotine
At €372 the F1 Pro undercuts Intel’s NUC 13 Pro barebone by €250 while shipping with RAM and storage already installed. Lenovo’s ThinkCentre Tiny with comparable specs? €680 before you add memory. The math is brutal.
AliExpress’ official Firebat store shows 4.9-star feedback across 1 800 units sold, and a 30-day no-questions return rate below 2 %. Those numbers speak louder than any spec sheet.
Firebat is betting that the desk real estate you reclaim is worth more than the silicon you sacrifice. For anyone whose workload is threaded code, 4K streams or Blender renders—and who is tired of paying the tower tax—the F1 Pro is already winning. The only thing left to decide is whether you mount it behind the screen or leave it in plain sight like a trophy.