Khadas Technology Co Ltd, a company founded in 2016, has unveiled the “Mind”, a workstation with portability and modularity in mind. Instead of lugging around a laptop, Khadas suggests that carrying around a small PC the size of an A6 piece of paper (albeit at 20mm thick) is a better option. Modularity is a key marketing aspect, with standalone and docked functionality featured on their product page.
Based on an Intel i7-1360P Processor (12 cores – 4 performance cores/8 threads and 8 efficiency cores, making for a total of 16 threads, with a maximum turbo of 5.0GHz at 64W), the base unit measures in at 146 x 105 x 20mm, or 0.3 Litres. The base system weighs in at 450g, including the 5.55Wh standby battery. Whilst the inclusion of a battery sounds exciting – the battery is only to support sleep mode – up to 5 hours.
The base Mind unit comes with 32GB of LPDDR5-5200, support for a pair of M.2 PCIe SSDs (one each of PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 3.0), WiFi 6a (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3, as well as quite a few ports. These ports include a pair of USB Type-C ports with Power Delivery and DisplayPort output – albeit one limited to USB2.0 mode, whilst the other runs at full USB 3.2 Gen 2 speed, a HDMI 2.0 port, a pair of Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and a “Mind Link” port – used to dock the device.
The Mind comes with a 65w USB-C power adapter.
Two docks are marketed – a basic workstation dock with extra ports, and a GPU dock, carrying a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060M GPU.
The basic Mind Dock adds extra ports – a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports, three Type-A USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a SD card reader, a RJ45 port for 2.5GBe Ethernet and a USB Type-C port for power. No word on the product page whether or not these are all in addition to the base unit ports, or if some functionality of the base unit is limited when docked.
Not much info is available on the GPU dock, aside from the RTX 4060M GPU, so we’ll have to wait for more info.
Speaking of docks, Khadas is also previewing a couple more docking options – the Mind xPlay – a portable display with built in battery, enabling portable all-in-one PC usage, and the Mind Talk, a dock aimed at meetings, with microphones, etc.
No pricing is available at time of writing. See more about the Mind ecosystem here: https://mind.khadas.com/
