BeelinkME Mini PC with Intel N150 12G LPDDR5 64G EMMC, 2TB M.2 PCIe 3.0 SSD, Dual 2.5G LAN/NAS Storage/Cloud

This computer is the absolute pinnacle of bang for the buck, for a brand new, fully Windows 11 pro desktop. This was engineered very well, making the RIGHT consessions to low cost. For instance, the SSD interface is an M2 NVME x1 lane arrangement which is almost double the speed of a SATA III SSD drive. Not nearly as fast as an NVME x4 lane interface, but it is fully compatible with any M2 NVME pcie3 x4 drive out there. Plus there's the internal SATA III drive bay which can hold up to 2TB (either HDD or SDD) right under the motherboard. I use a 4TB external HDD interfaced to the USB 3.2 (10mbps). Everything I need to execute quickly I store on the internal 500GB drive, while stuff that doesn't have such a high speed priority I store on the 4TB drive.Another area where they made cost savings was in the single channel DDR4 memory controller. The ram included is DDR4 3200 16GB RAM. It's a very fast standard SO-DIMM (think laptop memory) which gives plenty of memory bandwidth to the CPU/GPU. In this kind of computer having dual channel memory is overkill. Of course this wasn't BeeLinks call as much as Intel's. All of the Alder Lake N SoC chips only work in single channel only.The only problem I encountered with this box was using video in 1080p at 75hz refresh rate. Again, an Intel thing. At 75hz, there were certain web sites that would not load correctly and would shut off the video completely and this would happen every time on these few sites. However that problem disappeared when I lowered the refresh down to 60hz. Also it only happened on very few websites.I would recommend this machine for anyone who wants a great performing home or office PC that has a super small footprint. Gamers will need to look elsewhere.

The media could not be loaded. +Well made. The plastic shell is very light, but surprisingly sturdy feeling. I can't really vouch for how the internals would fare, but the shell seems like it would be able to hold up against drops from reasonable distances.+Fast for a mini PC. I own several mini PC's and this is, by far, the fastest of the bunch. This is thanks to the Intel i5 processor, which can reach speeds of up to 3.10 GHz with the turbo boost feature. It is much more powerful than the Intel Celeron Apollo Lake, Intel Gemini Lake, and Intel Atom x5 processors.+Powerful for a mini PC. In addition to the Intel i5 CPU, this mini PC comes equipped with 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD. Because the M.2 card is SATA based, it does not have the performance boost that you would get if it were NVMe based. Still, SSDs in general are much, much faster than HDDs.+Multiple storage expansion slots. The big difference between this mini PC and the other ones that I own, is that the U57 has two expansion slots, while the others range from only one to no expansion slots at all. This is due to the M.2 SSD being removable as opposed to being soldered onto the motherboard, which is the case with all of my other mini PCs. You can also attach a 2.5” SATA HDD/SSD, which I show you how to do in the included video.+Not made for gaming, but is still capable of playing a few titles. The Intel Iris Graphics 6100 that this PC is equipped with, is currently one of the top Intel-based graphics cards. That being said, when you compare it to all GPU brands, it finds itself in the bottom third of benchmarks. Still, it is able to play a few popular titles on minimum settings such as Fortnite, League of Legends, Minecraft, and a few others.+Very portable. This PC is roughly the size of one of those small tissue boxes if you cut it in half. You can pack it in your travel bag and take it with you on trips, or you can attach it to the back of your TV via the included mount.+If I had one critique about this PC, it would be that it doesn't come equipped with the latest ax compatible WiFi card. Instead it has the previous ac version, which is still very fast, but the ax card would've made this PC a little more future proof.

I purchased the Mini S12 for use as a home Linux file server. Upgraded memory and added a 1 TB SSD drive. Cannot attest to Windows 11 experience as I installed Linux out of the box, but of course Linux is blazing fast. Assembled a 4 SSD software RAID 5 disk without effort that has worked flawlessly and use an external USB SSD for backup.Wireless transfer speeds are acceptable, considering wireless and the inherent drawbacks of consumer SSD drives in RAID. This little PC handles intended functions effortlessly per HTOP. It stays cool and has never needed a restart.My network rack sits in an unventilated closet so power consumption and heat generation were high priority. This PC, the RAID enclosure, Protectli firewall and small layer 2 switch add up to about a 4 F temp increase in the closet over ambient temp. Perfectly acceptable.This is not intended by Bee-Link for use as a server and some advanced features are not available. While I anticipated this, it was a surprise to find I needed an HDMI emulator to boot without a monitor as I found no way to enable this in the BIOS. This is a small inconvenience but worth noting for others who wish to make a ridiculously inexpensive yet perfectly capable home server.The box runs Ubuntu Server and I chose to install the GUI, including Collabra and other productivity software despite the overhead. In my use case performance is perfectly fine. Onboard disk space will never be an issue because, well, Linux.Given that the N95 proc is what it is and I haven’t tested Plex or other media services I cannot say whether the S12 has the juice for home streaming. But for a private home cloud for files and services, it’s perfect. I don’t see myself replacing my laptop with a mini-pc, but I can see other more powerful Bee-Link minis doing their thing around the house.