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Pros & Cons
Pros
This kind of system is definitely at its strongest as a lightweight media server or work/browsing device. It's no gaming pc but email, spreadsheets and browsing the web this is a great little device. Super fast for productivity apps and surprisingly g... Read More
Amd 5560u with 16gb ram and 500gb ssd. Wifi is rock solid. Uses cable gigabyte level service. Usb flush drives in the front slots at the same time for boosted storage.
The mini pc's compact size belies its capabilities. It is very small and portable and can be plugged into any screen with hdmi. Value, size, power for desktop use and some streaming/video playback.
This is my second beelink mini pc, and like the first, it is a nice little system! My only complaint is that miniforums uses usb-c for power instead of a barrel plug. Great for small office application.
Cons
It is very noisy in my quiet home office environment, to the point where i am returning it and have already replaced it with a 2nd beelink ser5 with the ryzen 5 5560u cpu. When idling in the bios and simply viewing the hardware monitor. It is strange ... Read More
Highlights
Quality
He uses it to play minecraft and while it doesn't allow the highest quality and best frame rates, it does allow him to use shad... Read More
Very nice micro computer with good gaming power and able to expand ram if needed.
1 gigahertz for short bursts, until the system throttled back due to heat limit constraints.
During several long burn-in tests, this computer never got above 82 degrees celsius with the cpu running at 4.
Price
This one seemed almost perfect with a bargain price.
It's definitely wysiwyg and at a great price point.
Got two cheap and two high quality wireless controllers.
They are a bit pricey for a mini pc.
Shipping
Was super quick to set up and downloaded updates took very little time.
Although, this particular beelink ser8 mini pc was totally virus free upon delivery, it sure is better to be safe than sorry.
Packaging/appearance
I heard the amazon guy slap the box on the table outside.
After receiving it, i hooked it up to my wireless network, but it dropped so many packets that i couldn't get it to operate.
There was room in the outer box to add some padding.
On a side note, i wish the package had a bit more padding.
Competitiveness
Modern ports, quality look and feel, ryzen is plenty fast and better at graphics than intel.
I did run a gpu test using 3dmark and it scored horribly compared to modern gpus.
Both were hundreds of dollars more expensive and not any better.
I ordered a second mini-pc, a different brand, but was even less impressed.
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- This product had a total of 175 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 3 2025.
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So not only do i run windows on my minipc via vm but any myriad of linux distributions as well
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After receiving it i hooked it up to my wireless network but it dropped so many packets that i couldnt get it to operate
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At that point i decided to use a wired connection at 2
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Later i attempted to connect my bluetooth mouse and keyboard which went smoothly
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However from time to time id see a strange lag in the mouse and then when typing id randomly get responses as if i was holding a key down and then struggle to erase it because there was some lag between the pc and the keyboard which were no more than 3 ft apart
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I then decided to connect a bluetooth headset to the pc and i could hear everyone fine however they said anything i attempted to say was garbled as if i had a bad connection so i had to swap to a wired headset which worked fine
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At this point i started a return on this product as it proved insufficient for what i wanted to use it for
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I ordered a second minipc a different brand but was even less impressed
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