We’ve just received a sample of the GEEKOM IT13 Max mini PC powered by an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU for review. With up to 35 TOPS, sixteen cores clocked up to 5.1 GHz, and up to 24 GB LPDDR5 memory, the Meteor Lake mini PC is well-suited for AI workloads, creative tasks, coding, and heavy multitasking.Two configurations are available: one with 16 GB DDR5 SODIMM RAM and a 1 TB PCIe Gen4 SSD, and another with 24 GB soldered-on LPDDR5-5600 memory and a 500 GB SSD. Both feature two 40 Gbps USB4 ports, five USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, two HDMI 2.0 ports, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, and dual 2.5 GbE networking, and come pre-installed with Windows 11 Pro.GEEKOM specifically sent us the IT13 Max mini PC with 24 GB LPDDR5 and a 500 GB M.2 SSD for testing. In this article, we will cover the mini PC’s specifications, go through an unboxing and a teardown, and boot it to Windows 11 Pro. More thorough features and performance testing on Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 will follow in the next parts of the review.
SoC – Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
CPU – 16-core (6P+8E+2LPE)/22-thread Meteor Lake-H processor @ up to 5.1 GHz with 24 MB cache
GPU – Intel Arc graphics
AI accelerator – Intel AI Boost NPU up to 11 TOPS (INT8); combined AI performance up to 35 TOPS (INT8)
