"Of course, it's KDE Plasma, so the desktop is glorious. And, yes, it defaults to a dark theme, which I immediately customized. As soon as I had that taken care of, I ran the available updates (which took all of three minutes) and set out to do the one thing I always do when testing a new PC: pushing it to its limits."
"How? These days, that's quite easy. I installed Ollama, pulled the llama3.2 LLM, and ran a query. I've become accustomed to slow responses to Ollama queries on review machines, and at first I thought the NX Gen3 was going to give me the same results. After a few seconds, however, Ollama spit out the answer to "What is Linux?" far faster than I thought. In fact, I haven't seen a small form factor PC respond t"
The NX Gen3 boots Kubuntu rapidly, displaying the onboarding wizard within seconds and allowing initial setup in under two minutes. A configuration featured an Intel Ultra 7 255H, Arc T140 8 Xe CPU/GPU, 32 GB of RAM, and Mesa Intel graphics, priced around $1,230. Systems can be specified up to 96 GB RAM and a 4TB drive, raising price to about $2,075. KDE Plasma provides a refined desktop with a dark theme default that is easily customized. Available updates completed in roughly three minutes. Local LLM testing with Ollama and llama3.2 returned unexpectedly fast responses for a small form-factor PC.
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