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2link: https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/pl-series/mini-pc-pl63/
3title: Asus Mini PC PL63
4tags:
5 - hardware
6 - homelab
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8
9
10Bought at Best Buy Downtown Vancouver for $499CAD (marked down $200CAD)
11
12* 8GB RAM
13* 512GB hard drive
14* Thunderbolt 4
15* Windows 11
16* i5-1135G7
17* Intel Iris Xe Graphics
18
19[Datasheet PDF](/assets/PL63_datasheet_compressed.pdf)
20
21## Unbox and Setup
22
23Why is this box so big??? Oh, it comes with a keyboard and mouse.
24
25This thing is tiny! Smaller and lighter than the [[Lenovo M900 Tiny]].
26
27This is the Thunderbolt 4 model. I plugged it into my [[VisionTek VT2900]] and it worked right away.
28
29First time on Windows 11. I sure am declining a lot of things. Lots of updates and rebooting.
30
31## Drivers
32
33The Canadian page for drivers is on the [ASUS website](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/pl-series/mini-pc-pl63/helpdesk_download/?model2Name=Mini-PC-PL63).