Open and user-friendly industrial design

“Linux users tend to spend a long time in the environment of their desktop and many consider it their most important asset for productivity” said Irad Stavi, Chief Product Officer at Compulab. “So we had user experience in mind during the design of MintBox3 and we were doing our best to make a desktop that just fits – small but powerful, quiet, reliable, easy to tinker with, maintenance-free and least distracting. We are delighted that Clement Lefebvre and other Linux Mint core developers chose MintBox3 as their main workstation.”

The most unique feature of MintBox3 is its thermal design. MintBox3 can dissipate up to 300W from its 7.5 liter chassis without fans or any moving parts, by natural airflow resulting from the waste heat of the CPU and the GPU. Natural airflow cooling is silent, extremely reliable and requires no periodic cleaning or any other maintenance.

MintBox3 has an unusually rich set of features for a mini desktop – including up to 128 GB RAM, 6 storage devices, up to 7 4K displays, dual LAN, Wi-Fi, 9 USB ports, audio jacks on front and back and serial ports.

The user is welcome to open MintBox3 to add, remove and upgrade RAM, storage, add-on cards and even the graphics card. Opening MintBox3 is tool-free:

Press the top-bar and the clamshell door opens, revealing the RAM and disk cartridge

Pull the disk cartridge ejector to expose the NVMe and Wi-Fi adapter.

Installing devices in MintBox3 does not void the 5 year warranty.

MintBox3 ships ready-to-use with Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia” Cinnamon pre-installed and no bloatware. User can easily install Mate edition, another Linux distribution, Windows 10 or another operating system.

Compulab and the Linux Mint team have spent long time optimizing the MintBox3 derivative of Airtop3 for the best user experience. Among the changes –