System76 has announced the Thelio Prime, a compact 11-liter (288 x 148.9 x 281.9 mm) desktop built at the company's Denver facility. The chassis is made from milled stainless steel and aluminium parts, with a smoked-glass front panel and tool-free magnetic side panels. The interior features two thermal chambers separating the CPU and GPU.\n\nUsers can choose an AMD Ryzen 9000 processor (up to Ryzen 7 9850 X3D) with integrated Radeon graphics or a discrete AMD or NVIDIA GPU (up to RTX 5070).
The system supports up to 96 GB of dual-channel DDR5 and up to 8 TB of storage across M.2 slots (one PCIe 5.0 and one PCIe 4.0).\n\nFront I/O includes USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C, USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, and an audio jack. The rear adds USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, Type-C, Gen 1, four USB 2.0 ports, a BIOS Flashback button, and audio line-out. Networking covers 2.5 GbE, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2.
Power comes from a 600 W 80 Plus certified supply with at least 90% efficiency.\n\nThe Thelio Prime ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC Desktop Environment or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It launches November 18, starting at $1,599.
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