Beelink Mini PC, Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake- N95(up to 3.4GHz), 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB M.2 SSD, Mini S12 Desktop Mini Computer Supprot Dual HDMI/USB3.2/WiFi 6/BT5.2 for Home/Office

The Beelink Mini Pro 12, with some help from Intel, engineered maybe the perfect low cost, low spec but still good PC I have purchased. Only one memory channel, so performance left on the table. Only one pcie lane to the m.2 NVME slot? While most SSDs have four lanes? For maximum throughput, that leaves 75% of your expensive ssd's performance on the table, right? Well, yes, but this already hobbled, almost recycled CPU with one memory channel can't do too much more with many pcie lanes anyway. And, maximum throughput isn't really so useful as a spec for most people. This one lane of pcie will do single thread, queue depth 1 random operations pretty much the same as four lanes. You will not notice anything unless moving/copying large files. The n95 is basically silicon coming off the wafer that did not spec out as a n100. Or an i3 or i5, etc. I don't know this but I bet if you put it under a microscope there will be a lot of fused off e cores and p cores. That is how chips are made, they get binned based on what came out of the oven. It turns out that gracemont "efficiency cores" are still pretty impressive for desktop level browsing, productivity, and in particular, just me here, but for a low end box that will be doing things at the speed of home internet. (Networking at 1gbps or lower speed.) 1 Gbps lines up pretty nice with 1 pcie lane, a sata drive, one memory channel. Of course, the 16 overclocked GPU units on this are not for gaming. Probably the n95 are also chips that had fewer successfully baked stream processors, as the n100 has 24 clocked at a lower speed. So it looks like they overclocked the fewer surving cores to save these from ewaste. Again, silicon lottery. But they are both fine. Neither the n100 or n95 are going to game, but fine for what they are intended for, and largely equivalent chips. What are some good things? Gets more life out of an older sata SSD you have laying around, or you buy a sub $200 4tb data drive and keep all your movies on it. Very, very good media player. If you have an older, slower m.2 ssd like an Adata Swordfish or Intel 660P? Those are slow and a fair match for continued "value" use with one pcie lane. Or write papers, do spreadsheets, browse, light photo editing or even video editing (very light, but Intel Quick Sync is pretty impressive), stream Netflix, run BitTorrent or an IPFS node, put a security cam on your desk, all the things (except gaming) that play nice at typical home internet speeds. At the price of $150 to maybe $120, it is a bargain if you have an appropriate work load for it. And that is an amazing price when you consider that 10 years ago an equivalently performant i5 desktop was around 10 times more expensive than this. Moore's law (RIP Gordon) is still doing cool things at the low end of computing and Beelink nailed the compromises to deliver a great low price that makes good use of junk silicon. I laud this, it is actually very green. Although the n100 is 6 watts instead of 15 watts. Get the n100 version to cut power almost in half. But they are running at near double the price.

I'm running Channels DVR service as an over the air DVR for my whole house. I didn't want to run Channels off my desktop as I'd rather not leave my power hungry desktop running 24/7. I considered getting a Raspberry Pi, but this seemed cheaper and more powerful. This N95 based Beelink Mini PC perfectly fit the bill. Running at most 25 watts I'm not as concerned about it running 24/7 and the quad core processor has no problem handling the Channels DVR software and easily powers through commercial detection. It's also quiet, runs fairly cool, and came with Windows 11 pre-installed. I'm running this headless and just remote in when needed. For my use 8G of RAM and the 256GB SSD are good enough as I was able to easily add a 2.5" drive for video storage. This would also work well for a home theater setup as it can be mounted behind the TV and it's so small you could even take it with you when you travel. With dual 4K HDMI, four USB3.2 ports, gigabit Lan, WiFi, and Bluetooth, this is also attractive as a desktop replacement for light usage such as email, web browsing, and word processing. When it came to installing Windows updates, it really ground to a halt and took a long time to install, so I'm not sure how well it would work for more than basic tasks. --Update: After running this 24x7 for over 5 months I'm still happy with my purchase. It runs on average from 10-12 watts and has no problem recording multiple show simultaneously while watching another show. While I still would not recommend this as a desktop replacement, it has worked great as a DVR server and I'm even running a small home intranet site off of it as well.

I've worked with a wide array of devices over the years, but this one has surprised me more than most. If you're looking for a Windows PC on a budget you'd be hard pressed to skip this one. I purchased this device mainly to check out the new 12th gen Intel Celeron processor, N95. They don't call them Celeron any longer, but that's exactly what these are. However, what I've experienced is definitely not the typical performance from a Celeron. They've certainly found out how to pull more performance than their previous generations. I'm running Windows 11 Pro and my browser of choice is Chrome. Normally, on a Celeron device with 8GB of memory I'd be limited to 4 to 5 tabs and not much else. For the last week I've used this as my work PC and on average I'm running Chrome with 15 to 20 tabs including Outlook and Teams. I have Discord up at all times and I'm constantly pulling up Zoom for meetings. I've had to run Visual Studio, Insomnia, and Notepad++ as well, without closing any Chrome tabs. This would have been nearly impossible with 9th gen Celerons and below. 10th and 11th gen would have definitely struggled. I never experienced any studder or slowdown. In the last two days I did reduce the number of tabs to 5 or 6 as I've been testing some games. I'm able to run Minecraft Bedrock, Dead Cells (Steam), and TMNT Shredder's Revenge. All of them ran at least 60 fps at 1080p. I would definitely not call this a gaming machine, but anyone that likes playing older titles, retro games, or modern 2D games will not have any issues. Also, game streaming via GeforceNow has worked without error. I paid approximately $150 for this MiniPC and it's been totally worth it. I plan on some Linux testing as well.

Honestly I would just suggest getting the 5800H or 5600U cpu in a mini. I have a few of those. Love them all! Not much more money and way better. I was only using this mini pc for super light use. Basic internet browsing and watching videos. It works but the cpu is always near max. I upgraded to 16GB ram because 8GB was not enough and the mini was almost locking up. ONLY USE single channel ram! Don't use dual channel ram. It burned up 2 dual channel sticks I tried. This mini only has a single ram slot anyway. Don't get me wrong, this mini pc does work. But for the money, I would just buy something a bit higher. I bought a few different minis for lab projects. They have all been good minus this one. This intel cpu is so under powered I decided to use something else for my lab setup. The build quality is fine and nothing wrong with this Beelink mini so far. The only problem is how bad this Intel CPU runs. I wasn't expecting much but it's worse than originally anticipated.

I use this as a mini PC for my telescope. I now have two of them to control my CPC800 and my AZ-GTi mount and love them both. I can connect to them with remote desktop and run NINA (free software) which controls the mount and camera captures. This is even powerful enough to do some planetary image/video stacking. Sometimes the wifi connection is weak and I have difficulty connecting to the PC but In not sure if that’s the fault of the mini PC or my router. It’s nice and compact and I can attach it to my telescope using a heavy duty velcro patch or else using the included VEXA mount kit (to attach to tripod leg for example).

I was contemplating getting a raspberry pi mini computer and adapting it as a media server, when I came across this mini computer. It’s capable, versatile and works well. And it came with Windows pre installed. No messing around with unfamiliar (to me at least) coding and adapting the computer to serve my needs. Moreover, the cost was about the same as the Pi system, once I totaled it up. Right out of the box, it did what I wanted. I liked it so much that I bought a second one to replace my aged desktop computer. No regrets, and no loss of performance. For me, a modestly skilled user, it was just what I needed.

VERY few products get a review from me, but I just had to for this machine. I'm in the computer business and I needed a small computer for the sole purpose of displaying a Chrome window on a touch screen for our customers. I figured, for the money, what could go wrong? I wasn't sure what to expect but expected almost nothing - and boy was I surprised. First impression was that it was very nicely packaged - almost as nicely as Apple products come. It came with the machine, TWO hdmi cords, the power adapter and a vesa mount adapter so you can mount it to the back of a vesa-compatible monitor. I had no idea what I'd get upon powering it up and was dumfounded to discover it was preloaded with Windows 11. Not just any edition either, but none other than Windows 11 Professional. I went ahead and got Windows updated so I could just use the machine. I'd say it runs roughly like a 12th gen i3 and for the size and cost, that's just unreal. Ultimately however, I'm not a fan of Windows, so I installed Debian 12(Linux) onto it and I have to say it performs as well as a $1000+ Windows machine - it's just incredible. This purchase was a trial run to see "what can I get if I buy a cheap mini from Amazon". Well, Beelink has my attention and business. I will be purchasing multiple new units for our workstations in the shop area. Now that I know the second-to-lowest spec'd model performs this way, I'm going to buy some of the higher spec'd models for the workstations. Blown away - worth every single cent.

I can’t state enough how pleasantly surprised I am with the performance of this little guy. Now, I’m not a power user by any means. I basically browse, stream movies and videos, check email, and video conference. For all of that, this guy doesn't miss a beat. It starts up fast and loads pages instantly. Everything runs smooth. It even gives me 1080p at 240 fps or 2k at 120 or 4k at 60. My Zoom chats are perfectly clear with no stuttering. If you're a basic user like me, I'd highly recommend this guy.

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