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First, APUs akin to the 8745HS/8745H/Ryzen 7 H 255 are little more than a defective 8845HS/Ryzen 7 260 dies with the XDNA NPU disabled, sold on the Chinese market @ a significant discount for AMD to avoid e-waste from wafer fabrication. These APUs are not officially acknowledged by AMD or currently

GMKtec is in the Top 3 Brands amongs Minisforum and Beelink. (Chinese Brand) GMKtec is on the rise and is a serious competitor to become in a very near future the Top Chinese Mini PC Brand, their ambition to become the major actor in the Mini PC market can be seen in their latest and upcoming models

You're about 7 months too late for a low budget. 32GB of dual channel RAM with AMD Radeon 780M graphics will get the gaming experience you're looking for but you'll need to decide on which local AI LLM you're looking for "up front" for the necessary hardware requirements. LLM → Hardware Requirements