Equipment:

• Medion Akoya E4212 14'' Laptop: Intel I3 2310M, 16 GB RAM DDR3
• Geekom A8-Max Mini PC: AMD Ryzen R9-8945HS, 32 GB RAM DDR5

Both of these PCs are configured with Zorin OS 18.1 Pro.

The Medion Laptop from year 2011 looks as new has under Zorin OS Pro a very good performance. Did upgrade its hardware from 8 to 16 GB RAM DDR3 and System Disk from HDD to SSD. Still use it for Internet Surfing and for interested people to demonstrate and to check out Linux as Zorin OS.

• Intel NUC Mini PC: Intel 10-10710U 64 GB RAM DDR4
• Geekom A9-Max: AMD Ryzen AI 9 370, 128 GB RAM DDR5

Both of these Mini PCs are configured in independent dual boot without GRUB Boot Menu (changing into the next booting OS directly out of the running Zorin or Windows without BIOS/UEFI):

• on first SSD with its own EFI Boot: Zorin OS 18.1 Pro
• on second SSD with its own EFI Boot with Windows 11 Pro 24H2 in prison frozen: without network, without Windows Updates, an app still needs Windows.

On the Intel NUC Mini PC under Zorin OS is now thanks to swarfendor437 the Brother Printer MFC-J5345 working.

On the Geekom A9-Max is planned to install lokal AI maybe next year...

IT Experience:

Since Oktober 2025 working with Zorin OS Pro as my daily driver. Installed it several times also for friends.

Long time ago as an IT Professional for 20 years:
ULTRIX (UNIX), VMS, WNT, Windows and Networking in Management, Teaching and Consulting.