A Budget Kali Cyberdeck on the Youyeetoo X1S

Security researcher Trevor Unland put the Youyeetoo X1S through a practical lab in Testing the Youyeetoo X1S for a Budget Kali Cyberdeck. The board is a compact x86 single-board computer with an Intel Celeron N5095, 16GB of RAM, Intel UHD graphics, and a supplied 128GB NVMe. He treated it as both a small Kali workstation and a low-cost local LLM box.

Kali amd64 installed cleanly to the NVMe. A microSD card in a USB reader was only the installer media; the internal M.2 2280 was the boot target. The review unit shipped without eMMC, so the NVMe was the system disk. With HDMI, a keyboard, the supplied heatsink and fan, and Ethernet connected, the installer used a guided single-partition layout, Xfce, the Kali top-10 tools, and the default recommended tool set.

Under a 15-minute, four-worker thermal soak the board peaked at 77°C with no recorded throttling. Fourteen of fourteen representative Kali commands returned the expected output. A local security workflow on loopback ran Nmap, Metasploit, Nikto, Gobuster, ffuf, SQLmap, and TShark together. A first CPU-only model pass ranged from Qwen3 0.6B at about 6.8 warm tokens per second down to Qwen3 8B at under 1 token per second. Notes, scripts, and later Ollama and llama.cpp retests are on GitHub.

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Youyeetoo X1S

Intel Celeron N5095, up to 16GB LPDDR4, dual 4K HDMI, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE, an M.2 2280 slot for NVMe or SATA, and an M.2 E-key slot for Wi-Fi. Windows and Linux ready, in a 115 × 75 mm board. The article used the 16GB configuration with a separate 128GB NVMe and no onboard eMMC. Youyeetoo X1S — from $354.95 (8GB / 128GB eMMC $354.95; 16GB / no eMMC $369.95).