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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2025
Using this as my home assistant, Plex server, and pi hole. Seems like it's doing it's job well and was super ready to set up with Proxmox. Definitely glad I spent the money on it. Trying to figure out what I should throw on it next.
Windward Bound
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2024
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.
gringopete
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024
The Beelink N95 Win11 MiniPC with 16GB RAM was a breeze to set up. The system is smooth and responsive. Does everything I need. No complaints. Would buy again.
Nemesis
Reviewed in Brazil on April 9, 2024
Produto chegou conforme o comprado na loja bem embalado, só não ganhou 5 estrelas pois o produto chegou na cidade onde moro sábado 15:00 e foi entregue somente na segunda feira na parte da manhã.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2023
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.
Jesenia P.
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023
9/28/23 update: so I hade had this for s little bit and I work remote once a week now. This thing really holds well. I have done video calls, multiple tabs open while still doing my remote use all at the same time. It does at time have the ran going cuz I hear it whirling when I throw too much at it but it gets it done. I stand by this little guy. Hes a good first computer or side PC if you don't want to spend too much money. He has Al lathe right ports for typical every day use and he's not a bulky mess.Original review: I work from home one or two days a month and this was in my budget. I didn't want to spend too much money in something I don't use often. It runs great for me to remote into my work computer. Two HDMI ports and one for my headset and I'm set. For basic email and web browsing it's a good little PC.
Tuka raj sigdel
Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on October 23, 2023
I received this product before 3 month this is best for me i like it 😘😘😘 good and smood runned।।।। thank for provide me।।
Green Desert Home
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023
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.
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