I finally tried to do some light gaming and yes it's great for emulation up to a ps2 but starts to struggle anything past that so.. Yeah I thought it could at least do ps3 with the specs but nope. Anyway that's my only criticism. I bought it a couple years ago and it's still rocking each and every day all day. It's my primary source of media so I use it all day for everything and very rarely experience issues all of which have been easy enough to fix except for the bluetooth adapter went out within the first year, just after the warranty so that sucks but I bought a USB Bluetooth adapter and it works well enough. It's a lying piece of crap, claiming to be a Bluetooth5.4 adapter and yet it's only a Bluetooth 2.0 adapter the lying little shit. But that's not this product's problem. This product's problem is that teg adapter went out just after the warranty causing me have to buy a different one and it wound up being a lying sack of dung. So, yeah. There's that. All in all a very nice piece of electronics that has taken a beating as far as constant usage for everything I do including all internet browsing, YouTube watching, movie playing, music play, gaming, and everything else one does with their PC. And it's done it all for years now with very little issues so I recommend this big time. Read more
Runs fast and quiet. Performs flawlessly but can be difficult to awaken from sleep mode. Would like a few more ports but it’s a winner Read more
The system is a laud, if you keep just a few cores the vent doesn't need to be on, but as soon as you hit more than 10 cores the vent can make the computer very loud, other than that the system is compact and I thought it was useful. Until one morning where it just stop working. I was using it as an internal VPN and PLEX so most of the time it was idle. But 190 days in use and I couldn't make it work, I contact Customer Service, and they asked me to ship it to a random address in Texas. I had to buy something else to replace it because I just want wait a few weeks to get it back. But I would try other devices before this. Other reviews call this similar experience, I should have listed. I'll update this as soon as I hear back from Customer Service Read more
I've had this unit for about a week and I LOVE it! It came with no bloatware and runs like a dream. I had a question regarding the Windows 11 Pro licensing and the Beelink support was friendly and quick, responding via email in just a day or two. The version I got was a Ryzen 7 with 8C/16T and had 32GB RAM and a 1TB NVME SSD. With tax it was $350 which beats any PC tower price. I'm testing this on my home lab and recommend it for anyone needing a good value Windows computer. Read more
I ordered the "Beelink SER5 MAX Mini PC, AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS(6nm, 8C/16T) up to 4.75GHz, Mini Computer 24GB LPDDR5 RAM 1TB NVME SSD" almost a year ago. And whoa, but it's blazing fast compared to the Dell dinosaur I had before. Boot up was fast and everything was like a dream. But there are a few problems such as it's so small, that the USB ports are limited and they don't allow a lot of room (if you've a big, wieldy USB stick, but that's a minor issue and can easily be resolved with a USB hub). Initially, I did have problems where every few months, it'd reboot, but that might have happened a couple of times. Since then, it's been fine...maybe got all its updates. My biggest issue is with the fan. It's CONSTANTLY running, even when nothing is going on. I''m sensitive to the noise and concerned that it's running all the time, that lately, I just put my computer to sleep when not in use. I usually leave my PC on all day, 24/7, but not with this PC. It seems it's doing it more now than when I first got it installed. Maybe they need to update the software on it. Other than that, it's crazy fast and works great. Would recommend as long as it lasts at least 3 years or so as the hardware I got for this is beyond anything I need it for (I'm not a gamer). Read more
Switched over from a tower desktop to this model as it came highly recommended by my IT professional after listening to what I used my desktop for and looking at my current file content. It is so small (smaller than 2 decks of cards), yet SO FAST. My IT prof was able to transfer all data from my old computer (and old MS software) in a jiffy. If he had not recommended this computer, I probably would have spent alot more for the typical larger desktop at Costco or BestBuy. Read more
Pros: Fast, small, very good cooling system. Cons: very few USB ports. It should have at least one more. Read more
I ought this as I was tired of using my windows machine for development (Software Engineer). The first thing I did was put NixOS on it setup my deve envs. I can SSH into my new linux box from windows and dev on and leave my windows machine pristine. This machine for me is pretty overkill. 32gbs of ram and 1tb hdd is more than what I'll need for a while especially considering I'm not running windows. Love it so far Read more
