If you’ve been wondering if a mini PC can actually handle gaming, I grabbed the Peladn W04 with the AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS and put it to work. This thing literally fits in the palm of your hand, but it’s loaded: 32GB of DDR5 (which is basically gold these days), a 1TB SSD, and Radeon 760M integrated graphics. I walk through the setup, the ports, and why the IO on this little box is way better than you’d expect—dual LAN, Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, and two USB‑C ports with one being USB4. Then I jump into quick 1080p gaming tests on the iGPU, and the big takeaway is simple: you can get playable frame rates on integrated graphics. If you want a compact 1080p box or even an emulation machine right out of the box, it’s honestly perfect for that. The real fun, though, is what comes next in this series: the W04 has an extra NVMe slot, so I’m using that to step it up with an NVMe OCuLink adapter and an eGPU dock to turn it into a legit tiny gaming machine. For the price and what you’re getting, this mini PC is pretty awesome out of the box—and it’s got serious upgrade potential.