alt.hn

3/16/2026 at 6:41:59 AM

I reverse-engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from marketing photos

https://bay41.com/posts/tiiny-ai-pocket-lab-review/

by gravelturnip88

3/18/2026 at 9:04:03 PM

For those that care, this blog post was clearly authored by an LLM.

by chilipepperhott

3/18/2026 at 9:16:52 PM

Ahhhh I always feel like I was owned when I find that out, I was skimming through it like "wow this is a lot, this is a long blog post"

by ge96

3/18/2026 at 9:05:37 PM

Solid analysis, these quotes were particularly damning imo:

"You don’t accidentally forget to disclose that your memory is split into two non-unified pools. That’s a deliberate omission of the single most important architectural limitation of the device."

"Read that filename. layer_27_36. That’s not dynamic hot neuron routing, that’s static layer assignment"

by danielrmay

3/18/2026 at 8:59:51 PM

To the author’s point, I was able to run Qwen3.5 122B at close to 20 tokens/s on a Ryzen AI Max 395+ mini PC with 128GB (64/64 split, for some reason it needs a lot of system RAM).

by ricardobeat

3/18/2026 at 8:37:34 PM

New meaning to the words "hot pocket", given how toasty that Cix CD8180 is!

And that's at idle!! (15w) https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-ent...

Now add two NPUs. Personally I'm for it. But it is going to need quite the cooling. A bunch of Frore Airjet mems devices?

by jauntywundrkind

3/18/2026 at 9:32:13 PM

Based on the exploded views I found and some text references in a product page or something I can't quite remember it uses a vapor chamber and a dual fan configuration. If you go frame by frame on the exploded view animation it can be seen.

by gravelturnip88