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I bought a Beelink PC for $125 off Amazon when I was considering an RPi. It's hooked up to my 65" TV. It runs plex, Youtube and Spotify and they is about all I

I bought a Beelink PC for $125 off Amazon when I was considering an RPi. It's hooked up to my 65" TV. It runs plex, Youtube and Spotify and they is about all I want it for. I usually view 1080p movies but have done 4k without any issue unless they were bigger than 6 gigs. It has been great and I have no complaints, except the wifi seems I bit slower on some torrent downloads than my laptop which is just 7 feet away from it. (I haven't delved into that to see if it is actually happening and if I can fix it.) At the same time, I bought another for my elderly parents and they have used it for web and email with obviously no problem. They should be good with using it for that for another 5 years or more, assuming no hardware malfunction. Overall, I would buy another BeeLink.

biomcgary 3y ago
I'm writing this on a BeeLink (running Linux) that I use in conjunction with an M1 Air. It just works for most use cases (but only very light gaming).
- thekevan 3y ago
  I was going to install Mint on it but I am also using it with the Android subsystem installed so I can watch what my dog is going on my Wyze cam. It runs the Wyze app. A common theme to this PC is is I just haven't gotten around to looking into running the same thing on Linux.
dzhiurgis 3y ago
Got two Beelinks here. One Celeron one for home assistant (struggles to run hi res youtube), other Ryzen one for dads Windows desktop replacement - beats my M1 Pro for 1/3rd the price.
rstuart4133 3y ago
When my home server recently died I was in a rush, and Amazon had Beelink EQ12's for next day delivery. The N100 made me think "Intel is back!". The article's description is spot on - sips power (6W) yet snappy enough for day to day tasks. GPU isn't anything to write home about, but it supports hardware video codecs so it's fast enough for general web browsing. I'd guesstimate 10x improvement in MIPS/Watt over the GX-420CA based box it replaced. The Beelink EQ12 case made me wish I had more time to find what I was really after: the same hardware in a fanless box. Fans have to be cleaned, and if you every have to take the thing apart to blow the dust out be prepared for to spend an inordinately long time getting the all screws back in. It's entirely possible you will give up. But overall, it's a pretty awesome machine for the price. The N100 is undoubtedly the current sweet spot.

biomcgary 3y ago

I'm writing this on a BeeLink (running Linux) that I use in conjunction with an M1 Air. It just works for most use cases (but only very light gaming).

thekevan 3y ago
I was going to install Mint on it but I am also using it with the Android subsystem installed so I can watch what my dog is going on my Wyze cam. It runs the Wyze app. A common theme to this PC is is I just haven't gotten around to looking into running the same thing on Linux.

dzhiurgis 3y ago

Got two Beelinks here. One Celeron one for home assistant (struggles to run hi res youtube), other Ryzen one for dads Windows desktop replacement - beats my M1 Pro for 1/3rd the price.

rstuart4133 3y ago

When my home server recently died I was in a rush, and Amazon had Beelink EQ12's for next day delivery. The N100 made me think "Intel is back!". The article's description is spot on - sips power (6W) yet snappy enough for day to day tasks. GPU isn't anything to write home about, but it supports hardware video codecs so it's fast enough for general web browsing. I'd guesstimate 10x improvement in MIPS/Watt over the GX-420CA based box it replaced. The Beelink EQ12 case made me wish I had more time to find what I was really after: the same hardware in a fanless box. Fans have to be cleaned, and if you every have to take the thing apart to blow the dust out be prepared for to spend an inordinately long time getting the all screws back in. It's entirely possible you will give up. But overall, it's a pretty awesome machine for the price. The N100 is undoubtedly the current sweet spot.