Enter the EVO-T2, a $1900 mini PC

Not a year ago, I sold my unused dual 2.5-gigabit ethernet mini PC for $180 on eBay. Now that I need another, for nefarious reasons of my own, it turns out the same model goes for $250 used and more that $300 new! Newer models are even pricier. All this would be the component price crisis at work. So if I bother, I may as well upgrade to a 10 gigabit GMKtec EVO-T2 mini PC. It's only two grand after shipping and taxes. [via Lilliputing]

That stiff price gets, in a tiny box, an Intel T2S Ultra X7 358H CPU, 64GB of RAM (worth about $700 alone) and a 1TB SSD. The iGPU has 12 Xe3 cores and ray tracing support: good enough to game, though if you have $2k to spend on gaming, don't buy a $2k mini PC. There's even a little linear LED light on it that declares "I'm more expensive than other mini PCs."

Brad Linder puts it in context: " One thing to keep in mind is that Intel's Panther Lake chips with 12-core graphics only support LPDDR5 memory and not DDR5 RAM. That means that the only PCs with these chips that support user-replaceable RAM are models that use LPCAMM2. Most PCs, likely including the GMK EVO-T2 will just have the memory soldered to the mainboard, which means that it cannot be replaced or upgraded."

On reflection, I think this $100 model GMKtek has on offer will handle a Minecraft server just fine.