The catalog went through a thorough consistency check. Every configuration was tested against simple rules, such as "shipped RAM can't exceed the maximum" and "the processor has to exist", and every value that broke one was checked against the manufacturer's own documentation.
- 120 hidden configurations are back. They had been in the database all along, and the site was quietly skipping them.
- Machines nobody sells are gone. That covers about 270 "mini PC + graphics card" bundles that no manufacturer offers, plus handhelds, laptops, towers and bare boards, which aren't mini PCs (here is what counts).
- Hundreds of specs were corrected: processors, RAM limits, ports, dimensions, and numbers that had lost their decimal point.
- Socketed CPUs are now marked on about 450 configurations, so you can see which machines let you swap the processor later.
Some Scores moved as a result. A configuration linked to the wrong processor had been ranked on another chip's benchmark.
The details
Hidden configurations. The Dell Precision 3280 Compact showed one CPU option out of twenty. A few mini PCs had been listed only as bundles and are back with the configurations their makers actually sell: AOOSTAR GT37, Minisforum X7 Ti, Bosgame M1 and Khadas Mind 2S. The rest were duplicates or stale leftovers and were archived, along with 13 duplicate model pages.
Bundles nobody sells. Mini PCs from Beelink, AOOSTAR, GMKtec, Minisforum and others were listed with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX or a similar card in an external box. The price was simply the PC plus the card, and the same card added the same amount to 17 different models. Some bundles, such as the Morefine S700 and M600 with an RTX 4060M, cost exactly as much as the machine without any graphics at all. Minisforum workstation minis with a real PCIe slot, like the MS-01 and MS-A2, were listed with desktop cards fitted, which Minisforum doesn't sell either. The one set Minisforum really sold, the 790S7 with an RTX 4060, stays.
Wrong processors. Nearly 500 configurations pointed at the wrong chip. Ryzen 5500U and 5600U machines were ranked as 2015 Intel Core laptops. One Morefine M600 claimed a Ryzen 9 6950HX, a chip AMD never made (it was the 6950H). The 16GB Khadas Mind 2 now shows the Core Ultra 5 125H, the only chip Khadas ships in that version.
Numbers that lost their decimal point. 1.5 had turned into 15 and 0.25 into 25, so a three-month warranty read as 25 years. About 430 such values were fixed.
Specs that contradicted themselves.
- HP business minis such as the Elite Mini 800 G9 and EliteDesk 800 G9 now show 1GbE. Their 2.5GbE port is an optional Flex IO module, not standard.
- Some machines had a maximum RAM lower than the RAM they ship with. A few configurations couldn't exist at all, such as 32GB on a board with 24GB soldered on.
- The Mac Studio M2 Max listed zero ports. Dimensions of "0 mm" and "100100 mm" were cleared, and the Raspberry Pi 400 got its real size.
- A $500 Morefine M8S with an N6005, an i5 ThundeRobot MIX and a duplicate SZBOX S78 had no source and were archived. The real MIX stays, minus a size that had been copied from an Intel NUC.
- A 16GB Firebat A8 with the Ryzen 7 8745HS was listed at $825, more than twice its 8845HS sibling. It is now the 32GB version Firebat actually sells, at $548.
- Model pages no longer list integrated graphics, such as Intel Arc, UHD and Apple M-series, under "Discrete GPU". About 870 configurations were affected.
Socketed CPUs. Before, four configurations in the whole catalog carried the mark. Even the ASRock DeskMini X600, which is built around a desktop socket, didn't. Chips soldered to the board stay unmarked, even when a listing claimed otherwise.
Under the hood
The hidden rows predated the status field. An older import had never set it, and the catalog filters out archived configurations with a status != 'archived' check, which in SQL is not true for a missing value either. The field now defaults to published and can no longer be empty.
The contradictions were found by rules rather than by reading 3,000 rows. Examples: Ethernet ports broken down by speed adding up to more than the port count, USB4 ports outnumbering USB-C connectors, a model's configurations disagreeing on the chassis, and a configuration's name naming a different CPU than its spec. Each flagged value was checked on the manufacturer's page first. Reviews and store listings only confirmed a value or filled a gap.