Beelink EQ14 Mini PC with Processor N150,16G DDR4 500G SSD Mini Desktop Computer, WiFi6, BT5.2 Dual HDMI, Dual LAN 2.5G Ports W11 Home Mini Computer

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.

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.

These N200 mini PCs are wonderful, and have very low power consumption and heat generation. Some reviews here complained about noise, but my system is so quiet I only hear it in certain scenarios.Windows 11 seemed to run okay, but as an OS it is resource heavy. When running Windows updates or installs, it causes the system to run hot and make a small amount of noise. Still, not that bad.Linux runs BEAUTIFULLY on these! I use Ubuntu Cinnamon as my daily driver for this system, and all my browsing and music playing works just fine, no noise, no heat, every weekday.I also own a few Beelink S12 Pro systems, with the N100, and the N200 does feel notably better. I got a Passmark CPU score of 6,075 with the N100 system versus 6,673 with this N200 system. I'd say it's worth the few extra bucks for this N200, but you can't go wrong with a N100 or N150 system either!Definitely worth the purchase.

This is the first Beelink mini pc I buy and I'm pleasantly surprised. It showed up in new condition and as advertised. Both the hard disk and the memory test out good.The preinstalled version of Windows 11 came with a valid license and no bloatware. However, it has pretty poor performance even when running simple desktop workloads. Maybe Windows 10 would have performed better. I immediately wiped it and replaced it with Linux. I ran into zero compatibility issues (though the WLAN card requires a closed-source firmware package). The system has been stable for a few weeks running Debian 11 without any issues.Of note, the BIOS provides A TON of configuration options, including to set power and thermal limits for the CPU and the integrated GPU. I've been messing with computers for decades and I have no idea what some of them do (and neither does google). It is pleasantly surprising to find that much customization even for a relatively low-performance system.The only downside hardware-wise is that the SSD is connected over SATA and not NVMe, but the system overall is not so fast that it matters.All in all I recommend this computer if you need to run server workloads, but I wouldn't use it as a personal desktop machine for any reason, especially with Windows 11.