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frontpageshivster1796 posted Yesterday 1:15 PM

AOOSTAR MACO Barebones PC: Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H, 24GB LPDDR5 (No SSD)

$268

$369

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Aoostar Overseas Fulfillment Store via AliExpress has AOOSTAR MACO Barebones Mini PC (No SSD) on sale for $302.85 - $35 off with promo code VSUSDEAL35 at checkout = $267.85. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member shivster1796 for sharing this deal.
  • Note: Price may fluctuate slightly with currency exchange rates. You must be signed into your AliExpress account and have your address added to add items to your cart and place an order. You may have to manually type in the promo code to apply it at checkout. This item ships from a USA warehouse. For expedited customer service, please email [email protected].
Details:
  • AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H 8-cores, 16-threads (3.2GHz Base / 4.7GHz
  • Radeon 680M Integrated Graphics
  • 24GB LPDDR5 6400Mhz RAM (Soldered; cannot be removed or replaced)
  • Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.2
  • Internal Storage Expansion:
    • 3x M.2 2280
    • 4x PCIe 4.0
    • Max 24TB
  • Ports:
    • 4x USB-A
    • 2x USB-C
    • 1x OCuLink (Does not support hot-swap)
    • 2x LAN (2.5G)
    • 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
    • 1x DisplayPort 1.4
    • 1x HDMI 2.1

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • This offer matches the previous Frontpage Deal from June.
  • Our research indicates that this deal is $90.46 less (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $358.31 at the time of this post.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Written by shivster1796
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Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Aoostar Overseas Fulfillment Store via AliExpress has AOOSTAR MACO Barebones Mini PC (No SSD) on sale for $302.85 - $35 off with promo code VSUSDEAL35 at checkout = $267.85. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member shivster1796 for sharing this deal.
  • Note: Price may fluctuate slightly with currency exchange rates. You must be signed into your AliExpress account and have your address added to add items to your cart and place an order. You may have to manually type in the promo code to apply it at checkout. This item ships from a USA warehouse. For expedited customer service, please email [email protected].
Details:
  • AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850H 8-cores, 16-threads (3.2GHz Base / 4.7GHz
  • Radeon 680M Integrated Graphics
  • 24GB LPDDR5 6400Mhz RAM (Soldered; cannot be removed or replaced)
  • Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.2
  • Internal Storage Expansion:
    • 3x M.2 2280
    • 4x PCIe 4.0
    • Max 24TB
  • Ports:
    • 4x USB-A
    • 2x USB-C
    • 1x OCuLink (Does not support hot-swap)
    • 2x LAN (2.5G)
    • 1x 3.5mm Audio Jack
    • 1x DisplayPort 1.4
    • 1x HDMI 2.1

Editor's Notes

Written by RevOne | Staff
  • This offer matches the previous Frontpage Deal from June.
  • Our research indicates that this deal is $90.46 less (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $358.31 at the time of this post.
  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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bsbeamer
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Based on prices I've seen over the last three months while keeping an eye on mini PC's, this appears to be a good deal for this moment in time. Performance is pretty much identical to 7735HS machines. Wish it had four USB on the back instead of the second LAN, but that wouldn't be a deal breaker. Amazon reviews of the same machine at $359 look good too. Honestly considering it for a Batocera machine and would just boot off external SATA SSD for time being. Only downside seems to be soldered RAM. If you can live with that, might be worth it.
zerweck
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I have this Aoostar Maco. I like it. Since it doesn't have RAM slots, it has an extra (3rd) NVMe slot.
Cons: fan can be noisy under load unless power is restricted in BIOS. Sometimes won't wake from sleep (requires a total power cycle - pull power plug and plug in again).
jacob.b.smith
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Am I missing something or is this really good deal even without the SSD?

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Am I missing something or is this really good deal even without the SSD?
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Quote from jacob.b.smith :
Am I missing something or is this really good deal even without the SSD?
I feel like considering the ram, it's a really good deal during this time.

I'd also say don't buy this because it's onboard ram so you cannot upgrade it.
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Quote from jacob.b.smith :
Am I missing something or is this really good deal even without the SSD?
Based on prices I've seen over the last three months while keeping an eye on mini PC's, this appears to be a good deal for this moment in time. Performance is pretty much identical to 7735HS machines. Wish it had four USB on the back instead of the second LAN, but that wouldn't be a deal breaker. Amazon reviews of the same machine at $359 look good too. Honestly considering it for a Batocera machine and would just boot off external SATA SSD for time being. Only downside seems to be soldered RAM. If you can live with that, might be worth it.
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I have this Aoostar Maco. I like it. Since it doesn't have RAM slots, it has an extra (3rd) NVMe slot.
Cons: fan can be noisy under load unless power is restricted in BIOS. Sometimes won't wake from sleep (requires a total power cycle - pull power plug and plug in again).
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BoxDPYesterday 3:14 PM
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Looks like it would be decent for some local LLM work with an oculink or USB4 external GPU, anything I'm missing there?
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albocajYesterday 3:22 PM
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says it has oculink on the product images, but not seeing a port or in the specs... am I missing something?
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Quote from albocaj :
says it has oculink on the product images, but not seeing a port or in the specs... am I missing something?
Looks to be at the rear of the on/off touch button side: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/S6d12a...7c1e9b.jpg
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barrera_jYesterday 4:23 PM
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anyone can think of a use case for the dual ethernet? specifically for this chipsetset
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CF01Yesterday 4:26 PM
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Quote from BoxDP :
Looks like it would be decent for some local LLM work with an oculink or USB4 external GPU, anything I'm missing there?
You should be able to run Gemma 4 26b a4b QAT, Gemma 4 12 or Qwen3.5 9b directly on it. Qwen 27b will probably run slowly at Q3. I'd just get something else if wanting a real gpu rather than going occulink unless you have some good reason for having separated components.
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FeistyWing507Yesterday 5:04 PM
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Great deal. AliExpress is the best
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Enoch42Yesterday 5:28 PM
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Quote from AGA7d :
ali is the problem - service went downhill a lot
I see people do not like AliExpress. Bad news spreads further than good news. If a product or service works well, you never hear how good it is. But if it sucks, everyone hears the bad news.

I personally have bought 200+ items over the course of 1-2 years. I've had 3 things get lost and refunded. The worse part is the wait and lack of shipping info. I get notifications that it's still in China and yet it was delivered today.

If you can wait and want to save a buck, id try it again.
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I got this. Trades blows with my desktop for gaming (i5-14600K, 5060Ti 8GB, 32GB DDR5) when I have the OcuLink plugged into a dock with that 5060Ti. Everything works great and the RAM is literally the entire cost of the PC (and more). The processor is also 8 cores and performs close to a 5500 in gaming (16MB L3 Cache), better in multithreaded apps. Overall thoroughly impressed and no major quality issues so far in the month I've had it.
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sr27Yesterday 6:24 PM
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Quote from BoxDP :
Looks like it would be decent for some local LLM work with an oculink or USB4 external GPU, anything I'm missing there?
I haven't come across anyone that successfully setup oculink based LLM successfully. It can get expensive and unwieldy. To a point where you are better off going with a full case and keep everything contained.
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