GMKtec EVO-X1 Pro: a 590g editing machine small enough for your camera bag

Most editing machines ask you to choose: power or portability. The GMKtec EVO-X1 Pro is interesting because it barely asks at all. This is a full desktop editing computer that measures 107 x 111 x 63mm and weighs 590g — lighter than a 70-200mm lens, and small enough to genuinely live in a corner of a camera bag. For anyone who has wanted a proper editing machine on location without hauling a laptop that throttles or a tower that doesn’t travel, that’s a proposition worth a look. You can find it on the GMKtec store. What it actually does for photo work Inside is AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 470: 12 cores, 24 threads, boosting to 5.2GHz, with Radeon 890M integrated graphics and a 55 TOPS neural processor (86 TOPS across the platform). In practice that means Lightroom Classic’s AI Denoise — the single most demanding thing most photographers ask...