Great product may have been a little impulsive when buying two of them
I purchased this machine over similar spec models because of price and aesthetics. The case is very nice, compact, and provides decent airflow.
I'm mainly using it to run AI models in Linux and performance has been good. While not as fast as my RTX 5080, the benefit is that I'm able to run and experiment with larger models. I'm also tempted to re-install windows to test a few games to see how it performs.
The documentation is sparse and I appreciate some of the detail reviews others have posted to fill in the gaps. The fans are a bit loud under load, but that's expected due to the size of the machine and fans.
Love it. I bought this to be used primarily with cad software such as fusion 360 and similar and it works flawlessly. Highly recommend.
Everything works great. Good speed navigating and streaming.
I had never heard of Nimo brand but saw they had good reviews. I ordered a refurbished laptop. It arrived in good packaging. Opened it up and fired it up. the first time it gave an error message. I restarted it and it worked great. Haven't had any issues. My son uses it for streaming, internet browsing, and light gaming. He is very pleased!
System arrived quick. Interactions with support staff have been great. I’m happy with the performance of the laptop. Good purchase
Business form put name first name and last name and address and pay money and it said I had Waite. So I did for fours and nothing. Showed window and x in agreement box a brown circle N in a purple rectangle , blue envelope with a o on it then blue cloud wouldn't go anywhere else.
Great laptop
Everyone has been great to deal with and helpful. When email with questions, the are back to me quickly with the information. Very accommodating.
It's okay for gaming and stuff but they did good
i’m so pleased with my new laptop.. the price was awesome, so i was hoping it wasn’t too good to be true. after some research i decided to buy Nimo & im so happy i did. customer service was awesome too! i asked 10 questions, returned my laptop for the same one in rose gold, & they were so kind & accommodating on their end. thank you.
I purchased a refurbished 17 inch laptop with an R9 processor, Radeon graphics 64GB DDR5 memory and 2TB pcie SSD for $759.00 delivered. It arrived quickly and loks/functions as new. Very happy, looking at a 15.6 inch companion.
I will be purchasing another nimo laptop instead of this one so I'm just returning this one becuase it wasn't up to my standards.
Im a person who plays games liek hoi4 and victoria 3 and it has some issues with 3d processing, the GPU gets bottle necked by the 3d processing while only using 2-3 gigs of the dedicated vram, but apart from that its fine.
I have a loaded Nimo N178 AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX with a 3-extra monitor setup (4 monitors total) and a thunderbolt-connected, externally powered Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti "eGPU". Couldn't be happier. The laptop does benefit from an aftermarket cooler as all the AMD kit can produce some heat. The external Nvidia capability (not Nimo of course) sealed the deal. The AMD NPU was just a bonus. I love Nimo so much, I purchased 2 additional N171 "basic" laptops for family members that do normal laptop stuff. 17.3 inch screen is nice. No experience gaming on my N178 as playing with AI locally while monitoring the market on a couple of those extra screens was my focus.
My son received this for Christmas and loves it! My only complaint is that I can’t find a protective cover that fits it. Would love it if you could work with some companies who make protective covers for them to off them for your product!
It gets hot and is heavier than what I thought it would be. But it is fast
Every time I plug in charger the screen went blank. Have to unplug to restart it again.
I went down a rabbit hole of research before picking up Nimo's Strix Halo machine. At this price point, the only competitor I found were the Bosgame M5, and that suffered from looking like a gaudy spaceship. The only hangup I had was that I wasn't sure how the second M.2 slot was accessed and if it would be too difficult to add a M.2 to Oculink card to it for an eventual eGPU.
So, I decided to add guide on how to access the M.2 slots. The included documentation doesn't go over this.
1) On the back of the machine, there are 9 screws to remove. Remove them and pop off the faceplate.
2) Push against the back of the machine so that the internals slide forward out of the frame.
3) The M.2 slots are on the backside of the big heatsink. There's a metal bar going over the area, but you can squeeze a M.2 drive underneath it. The Wifi card is behind one of the bigger blocks, so it would be a lot more difficult to access.
It'll be a tight squeeze, but I think it'll be a straight shot from the M.2 slot to the back of the machine if I wanted to add an oculink adapter. USB4 is also available for plugging a eGPU through that instead.
Entering the BIOS is the F2 key. You can set the GPU RAM allocation there too.
This system uses the same Sixunited_AXB35 board as the Bosgame M5, GMKtec EVO-X2, and Corsair AI 300. GMKtec was a lot more aggressive in their marketing, so you'll find the most videos online about it, but they're using the same exact board. By comparison, the Nimo has a lot more heatsinks and metal clamping everything down. The strixhalo wiki was invaluable in learning what you can and can't do with this machine.
I tried out running some models with Fedora and Windows. You'll have to fight some of the ROCm support issues with Fedora (Vulkan is pretty straightforward), but LM Studio is a really good starting point. For Windows, you can run ComfyUI for generating video and images, but it's optimized for CUDA. I suggest sticking with LM Studio on Windows if you're a beginner since it provides a nice interface for picking and choosing what models you want loaded.
The only other system I would consider is the Framework Desktop or the Minisforum S1-MAX. Framework is approximately the same price as the Nimo, but missing the PSU, NVME, and Wifi card. From what I can tell, the Nimo's board is slightly larger than the ITX standard, so you would have to put in some custom standoffs if you want to exchange the case for a traditional computer chassis with more cooling. Minisforum will have the USB4 V2 speeds to connect a eGPU (I'm not sure how.. there's not enough PCIe lanes for them to push that much through), but at +$500 the price. Nimo has the longest return period and longest warranty, so that's why I decided to go with them.
In general, I'm pretty happy with the machine. I have reservations about the Strix Halo platform and its ability to keep up with traditional CUDA platforms for local AI. I'm also not sure if all this AI stuff is going to work out in the long run, but I'll have a pretty beefy machine for quite a long time.
I was suppose to get a 32 RAM laptop and received a 16GB RAM laptop I paid for 32GB Not 16GB look it up and fix this problem please
In the time I have been using it has been great. Easy set up and works flawlessly
I LOVE my new laptop!! It takes minutes to surf to internet instead of hours. I should have gotten my new laptop years ago from Nimo.
No regrets purchasing this laptop. I was looking for a business laptop - something with a lot of memory and a decent CPU and graphics. This laptop is perfect. I have no problem running 3 monitors with multiple charting windows open and crunching data. It was easy to set up. Great machine.