Blackview MP100 review

The MP100 is a small desktop built around the AMD Ryzen 5 7430U, a chip with 6 cores and 12 threads. It measures 127x127x45mm and weighs 492g, so it sits easily behind a monitor or on a shelf. A 65W power adapter is included. Owners rate it well for everyday jobs: browsing, streaming, Office and films. That makes it a sensible desk PC or small office machine.

Six cores and twelve threads leave room to run several ordinary tasks at once. Graphics come from the integrated AMD Radeon part, listed with a 1800MHz core clock. Owners say 4K and heavy workloads are a stretch and that the machine is best suited to 1080p. That fits a 15W TDP chip with integrated graphics. If your day is documents, web apps and video playback, the hardware matches the job. If you plan to edit 4K footage or run demanding graphics, owner reports suggest looking at something else.

Memory is listed as 16GB or 32GB of DDR4 3200MHz dual channel SO-DIMM, with a 64GB maximum. With that ceiling and a 6-core, 12-thread CPU, it suits containers and a few virtual machines better than a large VM farm.

Storage ships as a 512GB or 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 SSD. There are dual NVMe slots, supporting up to 4TB in total, which is 2TB per drive. You can start small and add a second drive later, or split the operating system and data across two SSDs.

Networking is the plain part of the spec. There is one RJ45 port running at 1000Mbps, plus Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. Wired transfers top out at 1000Mbps. That is fine for general use and light file sharing. It is a limit if you plan to move large datasets over the network, given how much memory and storage the box can hold. No second wired port is listed.

The MP100 uses a 3-in-1 cooling system with a fan. No fanless mode is listed. Owners describe it as quiet with low power use at idle, which fits a 15W TDP processor. They also report that the fan can spin up unexpectedly when the machine is idle. Expect a mostly quiet box, but not a guaranteed silent one. If you sit next to it all day, that occasional spin-up is the thing to weigh.

The port list is generous for a case this size. It has HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, two USB-C ports at 10Gbps with video, two USB 3.2 Gen2 ports at 10Gbps, one USB 2.0 port, the RJ45 LAN port and a 3.5mm audio jack. Video can come from HDMI, DisplayPort or either USB-C port, so a multi-monitor desk looks feasible on the listed outputs. The USB-C ports are listed at 10Gbps.

The Amazon UK listing title shows a 3-year warranty. Blackview also has a product page and a support page for the MP100.

The MP100 suits someone who wants a compact, mostly quiet PC for office and media use, with room to grow. The 64GB memory ceiling and two NVMe slots leave room to add memory and storage later. The single 1000Mbps port, the fan behaviour owners mention, and the limits at 4K are the trade-offs to accept before buying.