A GUY TESTED EVERY AI HALO MINI PC ON THE MARKET AND THE WINNER IS NOT WHAT MOST PEOPLE EXPECTED. The Minisforum MS-S1 Max. Every box in this category runs the same AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB unified memory. The chip is identical across all of them. The decision comes down to everything around it. What won it: dual 10-gig Ethernet, 80 Gbit/s USB4 V2, an internal power supply, and a low-profile PCIe slot the competition quietly skipped. The detail most reviews missed: the CPU/GPU memory split changes CPU performance by 15% on identical silicon. Same chip. Different configuration. Meaningfully different results. The honest comparison: NVIDIA's GB10 boxes have nearly closed the price gap and still lead on software maturity. AMD's edge is Windows compatibility, gaming, and expansion in one machine. The takeaway is not which box is fastest. It's that local AI hardware is now a commodity. The real differences are the boring ones. Ports. Service. Software ecosystem.(CyrilXBT)