The ASUS Ascent QN10 is the first mini PC built on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite: 18 Oryon cores, an 80 TOPS NPU, and three USB4 ports in a 0.7-liter box you can hide behind a monitor. Check the teardown, where a vapor chamber and copper thermal pads on the M.2 drives show how ASUS keeps it near silent under load. Why it matters: this is the first Arm mini PC we’ve tested that beats x86 outright, 43% to 76% ahead of the NUC 14 Pro on our CPU suites, with local Stable Diffusion and LLM inference running on the NPU while the CPU sits idle. Full review at the link in bio. #ASUS #Snapdragon #MiniPC