Corsair AI Workstation 300: Strix Halo power with an SD card reader and a real warranty

Nearly every AI mini PC worth having comes from a brand you had not heard of three years ago, sold direct from China with a one-year warranty and support conducted by email. Corsair’s AI Workstation 300 is the exception — the same class of hardware from a company with a global service network, a two-year warranty and shops that will actually take it back. For a working photographer, that is not a small consideration. Details are on the official Corsair product page. The hardware is familiar: AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 16 cores and 32 threads on Zen 5, with the Radeon 8060S integrated GPU able to address up to 96GB as graphics memory. An entry configuration uses the eight-core Ryzen AI Max 385 with Radeon 8050S graphics and up to 48GB of video memory. Memory is 64GB or 128GB of LPDDR5X at 8000 MT/s, soldered as it is across...