Best Buy’s early Black Friday sale cuts the base Lenovo Yoga Mini to $599.99. That’s $460 off its regular $1,059.99 price, and the lowest this desktop has sold for since it launched earlier this year.
What you get for the money is a 0.65-liter aluminum cylinder, 600 grams of desktop running Intel’s Core Ultra 5 325 on the Panther Lake platform, with 16GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory, a 512GB SSD and Windows 11 Home, all in the Seashell finish with a fingerprint reader in the power button.
Lenovo Yoga Mini (Core Ultra 5 325, 16GB, 512GB SSD, Seashell)
0.65-liter aluminum chassis · Intel Panther Lake 8-core · Dual Thunderbolt 4
Price: $599.99 $1,059.99 (save $460, 43% off)
Where to buy: Best Buy
We’ve covered the Yoga Mini twice already, first when Lenovo’s circular puck PC surfaced in China and again when the Intel model shrank a Copilot+ desktop to 0.65 liters for the US market. The hardware hasn’t changed since those pieces ran. The price has, twice over: it dipped to $680 during Best Buy’s Techtober sale, and this cut takes another $80 off that low.
Panther Lake in a puck
The Core Ultra 5 325 is the entry chip in Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 line, eight cores with boost clocks up to 4.5 GHz. Lenovo gives it a 45W thermal envelope and a blower fan inside a case that’s 130 millimeters across and under 50 tall.
Graphics run on integrated Intel cores. Lenovo’s own answers on the Best Buy listing put Cyberpunk 2077 at roughly 52 frames per second on medium settings, with esports titles running comfortably above that.
Nobody should buy this as a gaming rig. It’ll chew through photo edits, code compiles, office work and a shameful number of open browser tabs without slowing down, though, and it sips power like a laptop while it works, so it stays quiet on a desk in a way a tower never does.
The NPU is rated up to 47 TOPS. That makes this a Copilot+ PC, so the local AI features in Windows 11 run on the machine itself instead of in a data center somewhere.
The ports carry the desk
Turn the puck around and the back panel is all business: two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-C ports at 10 Gbps, a USB-A port, HDMI 2.1, 2.5-gigabit Ethernet and a headphone jack.
That spread drives up to four displays at once through the Thunderbolt and HDMI outputs. A three-monitor desk plus a TV is a normal setup for this thing, and the wired Ethernet pulls files off a NAS at full speed while it’s at it.
One of the USB-C ports is also the power input, so the whole computer runs off a single USB-C feed. Docks, monitor arms and cable trays all get simpler when the PC itself asks for one cable.
Most mini PCs at this price make you pick which corner gets cut. This one doesn’t.
It knows when you sit down
Lenovo layered sensing over the hardware. Wi-Fi sensing picks up your approach and wakes the machine before you’re settled, then dims the display when you walk away, and the power button on the side carries a fingerprint reader, so sign-in is a touch instead of a password typed out for the tenth time that day.
The glow at the base is the adaptive lighting ring, switched with touch controls and gestures that the built-in accelerometer reads off the case. Dual microphones and a built-in speaker cover video calls with no headset in sight. Lenovo’s Qira assistant is part of the software load, and it asks for a 16GB memory floor, which is exactly what this base model carries.
Party tricks, mostly. They cost you nothing at this price.
The base model on paper
| Spec | Lenovo Yoga Mini (91E60001UT) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core Ultra 5 325 (8-core, up to 4.5 GHz, Panther Lake) |
| Memory | 16GB LPDDR5X-8533, soldered |
| Storage | 512GB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD |
| Graphics | Intel Graphics (integrated) |
| NPU | Up to 47 TOPS |
| Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 4, 2x USB-C 10 Gbps, 1x USB-A 10 Gbps, HDMI 2.1, 2.5GbE Ethernet, 3.5mm combo jack |
| Wireless | Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 |
| Size and weight | 5.12 x 5.12 x 1.91 in, 0.65 liters, 600 g |
| Operating system | Windows 11 Home |
Who should buy it
At $599.99, this is the Windows desk machine for anyone short on space: a home office, a dorm, a living-room PC that vanishes beside the monitor stand. The comparison that counts is Apple’s, where a Mac mini carrying the same 16GB of memory and a 512GB drive runs $799.99 on Amazon right now. The Yoga Mini undercuts it by $200 and throws in 2.5-gigabit Ethernet as standard gear.
Skip it if you ever plan to add memory. The 16GB is soldered to the board and final, so the configuration you buy is the configuration you retire. Buyers who outgrow their RAM in year two should be looking at a bigger box today, not this one.
Skip it, too, if your gaming starts at high settings in new releases. Lenovo sells that headroom in the step-up Yoga Mini, the Core Ultra X7 358H model with 32GB of memory and Arc B390 graphics, and Best Buy lists it at $1,779.99, which tells you exactly where the money goes in this line.
One budget note: the $599.99 buys the computer and nothing else. The monitor, keyboard, mouse and camera in Lenovo’s photos are sold separately, so the full desk costs more than the headline number unless you’re plugging into gear you already own.
Lenovo Yoga Mini (Core Ultra 5 325, 16GB, 512GB SSD, Seashell)
16GB LPDDR5X-8533 · 512GB SSD · Wi-Fi 7 and 2.5GbE
Price: $599.99 $1,059.99 (save $460, 43% off)
Where to buy: Best Buy
At $1,059.99, the Yoga Mini was a design object you admired and skipped. At $599.99, it’s the Windows mini PC to beat this Black Friday.
