GEEKOM A9 Mega: an AI-first mini PC for generative photo and video editing

For creatives whose editing is increasingly AI-driven, the GEEKOM A9 Mega makes a neat pitch: the same Ryzen AI Max+ 395 muscle as its rivals, in a more consumer-friendly package built around that huge pool of assignable graphics memory. With up to 96GB of the system’s 128GB able to act as VRAM, it’s tailor-made for the wave of generative and AI-assisted editing tools now central to a lot of photo and video work. You’ll find it via GEEKOM. That AI-forward angle suits a particular set of apps. Luminar Neo — whose whole identity is generative editing, from sky replacement to GenErase and relighting — lives or dies on local AI performance, and this is exactly the hardware for it. ON1 Photo RAW, with its NoNoise AI denoising and Super Select AI masking, is another that leans hard on the GPU and NPU. The A9 Mega handles both without sending your...