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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
7aliases:
8 - Asus Mini
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10
11
12Bought at Best Buy Downtown Vancouver for $499CAD (marked down $200CAD)
13
14* 8GB RAM
15* 512GB hard drive
16* Thunderbolt 4
17* Windows 11
18* i5-1135G7
19* Intel Iris Xe Graphics
20
21[Datasheet PDF](/assets/PL63_datasheet_compressed.pdf)
22
23## Unbox and Setup
24
25Why is this box so big??? Oh, it comes with a keyboard and mouse.
26
27This thing is tiny! Smaller and lighter than the [[Lenovo M900 Tiny]].
28
29This is the Thunderbolt 4 model. I plugged it into my [[VisionTek VT2900]] and it worked right away.
30
31First time on Windows 11. I sure am declining a lot of things. Lots of updates and rebooting.
32
33## Drivers
34
35The 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).