Olares One is an AI-focused “personal cloud” mini PC with NVIDIA RTX 5090 and Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX (crowdfunding)
The Olares One is a small desktop computer with the guts of a high-end gaming laptop including an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 mobile graphics with 24GB of GDDR7 RAM, 96GB of DDR5 memory and a 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD.
But it’s not really positioned as a gaming PC. Instead, like everything in 2025, it’s all about AI. Olares is an open source platform for creating a “personal cloud” with access to AI tools that run locally on your device rather than on some other company’s servers. And while you can install that software on a wide range of computers, the Olares One is positioned as a purpose-built PC that supports the Olares platform and allows you to deploy any of the 200+ apps in the Olares App Market.
Unsurprisingly for a device with RTX 5090 graphics though, the hardware ain’t cheap. The company behind Olares is called Bec Lab, and it has announced plans to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the Olares One in December. Backers will be able to reserve the PC for a pledge of $2,999.
There will be an opportunity to save a little money though: Folks who pay a $50 deposit before the crowdfunding campaign launches can back the campaign for $2799 and get their deposit back upon conclusion of the campaign. But that’s still a lot of money to spend on a device from a company that’s never released hardware before.
The Olares One has a 320 x 197 x 55mm (12.6″ x 7.8″ x 2.2″) chassis with a volume of 3.5 liters. Inside the case there’s a cooling system that includes a 2.8mm vapor chamber, dual fans, and a copper fin array, as well as two SODIMM slots for DDR5-5600 memory and a wireless card with support for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
Ports include:
- 1 x Thunderbolt 5
- 1 x USB Type-A
- 1 x HDMI 2.1
- 1 x 2.5 Gb Ethernet
The system comes with a 330W power brick.
It’s interesting that Bec Labs wants you to think of this as a DIY server rather than a general purpose PC, but the company only includes a single 2.5 GbE LAN port. At a time when significantly cheaper computers have 10 Gigabit network ports, this seems a little slow.
But it should be good enough for some of the non-AI capabilities that the company highlights, such self-hosting a password manager, RSS feed reader, or document & file sync solution as an alternative to Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud.
For what it’s worth, Bec Labs wants you to think of Olares as a “cloud OS,” but there’s a reason I called it a platform above. It’s really more a set of tools that can be installed on top of the Linux distro of your choice.
