I’ve had aced and hp laptops for years, I have to say the brand is pretty amazing.
I would have given it five stars, but I can’t seem to find accessories for this brand
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.
The laptop was good except it froze and restarted every one hour or two. The support team was very responsive and are still helping me with it, just waiting on a response for their incorrect replacement
I've seen over several thousand posts eBay m.2 breaking from sticker adhesive dripping and is 40x as hot as ram sticks get all the adhesives off bad for the environment inside the computers eventually.
My son can't stop raving about this laptop. He loves it! It will last him a lifetime with the storage, large screen, ram processing is so fast, he wouldn't change a thing!
The only issue I have is the fingerprint reader is non-supported, as no Linux drivers exist for the particular chipset used. The one issue aside, the laptop works very well for me. Compiles wine32 in about 17 minutes. I appreciate that it supports 2 NVME drives. I use one for the OS and the other for /home. System 76 sells a Linux specific laptop that uses the same AMD Radeon™ 780M gpu.
Laptop arrived quickly and was easy to set up out of the box. I had a great customer service. I don't know what people are waiting for and sleeping on this more affordable laptop.
I have been testing all kinds of things on it. Windows works decently. I installed Linux and it works good too. It works for light gaming and work.
I think Nimo only needs a better variety of processors to be a top tier brand. Maybe some models with a dedicated GPU. But overall it's great. Wish they would ship to Mexico.
And when I had a question about increasing the ram on my own sometime down the line I got a quick response from customer service and they were very helpful.
I'll be using it for my astrophotography programs since macOS doesn't have a whole lot.
I must admit, at first I was a bit skeptical when I heard of Nimo Pc’s. I was looking for a laptop for my daughter for school work. Not too fancy, but just the right specs where everything would run buttery smooth on her laptop. Unboxing the laptop you will see that they took great care in boxing the laptop and the quality really does shine out the box. Setting up was a breeze and my daughter was happy. Upgrading to more Ram and storage space is really cheap. I will definitely buy another laptop from NIMO for my other kids.
Does everything I wanted it to do and more. Have had it for over a week now and its been great, zero issues with it. Handles lower intensity games such as Minecraft, Roblox and Raid Shadow Legends with no issues. If you go up a tier to titles like Path of Exile 2 then you'll need to lower the graphics settings but still is great and obviously there other tiers of laptops on Nimo if youre looking for more intense gaming capabilities.
The computer came quickly, better condition that I expected, and works well. My only complaint is there is no “print screen” key, and the layout of the arrow pad, right shift key, and number pad is kindof merged and weird so I keep hitting the wrong keys. No enter key with the number pad, and the period is at the top instead of bottom. It really messes me up since the other computers I use a lot are all pretty similar to each other and this one is not.
Replaced my HP laptop with a NIMO N157 laptop. I use the laptop for email, news and streaming. The screen is big and bright. The backlit keyboard is amazing.
Became a NIMO fan overnight.
This is a fast machine that xan handle alot. At under $500. There isn't a better machine. I've had $1500.00 laptops that couldn't preform as good as this 1.
I bought this to run my 3d scanning/printing/rendering software. I had 3 different rendering engines open at one time to compare functionality in real time, and it was still operating fairly normally. It just barely slowed down.
I'll be honest, I was pretty off-put by the "made in China" sticker. I wasn't expecting that, and was actively trying my hardest to avoid it. I concede, however, that this computer actually does what it says it will do(rare in my experience).
I haven't used this for gaming. However, after what I've done, I highly doubt anyone would have a problem.
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Astonished comes to mind very quickly. I was looking for a laptop that would handle the hell I was going to put it through. I needed the power of a huge tower unit with no room to set it up. I do custom map builds for DayZ as well as play and venture around in the virtual unreal world of gaming. Not knowing anything about the company or its products I was hesitant to purchase. I was quickly amazed at the shipping packaging alone. Setting this up I was still skeptical but off we went. got through initial set up got my coffee and away we went. Loaded up my editor and began. No issues there ran smoothly no hiccups. The editor alone requires 32g of ram to run smoothly. So just for fun I decided to load up a few more things at the same time. that did not slow down this thing. I have had this for 4 mnths and I am still having fun editing and playing and everyday stuff. I would ABSOLUTLEY recommend the Nimo N153.
I got the 16 GB with 1 TB. I initially bought this have a less cluttered work space when drawing with a display tablet. Beforehand I was using a laptop and the 3 in 1 cable was split off awkwardly on either side of the laptop, so the ports in the back of this pc was very attractive in having the cords tucked away more neatly. It does everything I need for clip studio and some light gaming (I say light but really, I'm just reading visual novels) web browsing, typing things up in obsidian.
Very pleased with the set up and the colors are very cute. I'm in that phase that some girls go through later in life when they realize pink is actually a really cool color. It matches with my kamvas 13 gen 3 tablet and the casa pop up desk keyboard and trackpad.
Before I had the keyboard and trackpad connected via Bluetooth, I was surprised to see that my stylus that came with my drawing tablet worked so easily and was able to set up everything with relative ease. I know nothing about computers.
I was scared but I'm glad I took the plunge! I did have to read reddit posts about Nimo, but even then, it seems like there's good customer support afterwards!
I bought the nimo n172 amd 9, so far it has been great. I was skeptical because of the price and specs were too good to be true. But the laptop I got has run flawlessly. I’m able to play any triple A title. Most on higher graphics! Cod is not one but can play with low graphics. it uses only 80watts. Such a crazy machine for the price. I upgraded the thermal paste(easy upgrade) and now runs my games even smoother with no lag or fps drops!
I really love my Nimo laptop. I actually got it for a family Christmas present, but liked it so much that I got another one.
The casing and hardware are exceptional for a $600 computer. The blue color is classy, in my opinion, and the screen is vibrant and clear. I have reasonably poor eyesight, so the larger screen and clarity are very appreciated.
The mouse pad fingerprint scanner works great for using Windows Hello to access your account. It is unobtrusive and doesn't interfere with regular mouse pad usage. The pad itself is responsive without having too many issues with false clicks when I use it.
The actual performance of the laptop is solid. The N100 800 MHz processor does the job, though I did have to do a little tweaking to keep the CPU from maxing out. Mostly removing some of the Windows applications that were running in the background and the usual Defender background settings that bog down the computer.
Nimo themselves seem like a great company. The product is assembled domestically (for those in the United States) and their 2-year warranty is a nice touch.
I purchased mine through Amazon, and it arrived quickly, was packaged well, and really presents as high quality out of the box.
I have chatted with our IT manager about my experience and would love to see us use some of the more business-minded versions of the Nimo product line. All-in-all this has been a win for me!
As an aside, I use it for recording music and doing some slight video work, so it works well for that.
Pretty dang solid laptop. Ram, ssd, and the overall processing power is pretty awesome. It's a surprisingly light laptop in my opinion, pretty decent build quality. My biggest issue comes from the battery. When unplugged from an outlet and used for gaming, the battery, has gone from 100 down to 95 in maybe five minutes and then will steadily drop down to 75 percent. I think it only took maybe fifteen minutes. When not gaming, it's marginally better. If I'm just doing my welding assignments, the battery will drop from 100 to 95 in six minutes and then will slowly drop to 75 before I would plug it in. Besides the battery being wonky for me, I'd say it's a good deal.
It says Grade B but it looks and feels brand new and has been running perfectly so far!
The only thing - I prefer to have an option to install Linux only (Ubuntu LTS or Fedora) - then the price could be 100+ bucks cheaper. Also not clear to me why Win11 recovery partition is 25gb allocated? IMO 15gb is more than enough. Also would prefer to see SN5000 SSD clearly specified on site.