Riding on the success of the XtaLAB mini as a compact, low-maintenance, benchtop system providing high-quality crystal structures, the new XtaLAB mini II has been developed. The XtaLAB mini II differs to its predecessor by the inclusion of a Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) detector, called the HyPix-Bantam. HPC detectors are at the cutting edge of diffraction technology, and are widely used at synchrotron beamlines due to their high sensitivity and fast read-out speeds. The whole system is controlled by the popular CrysAlisPro software, which offers users the ability to complete their structure determination with one software package.