> From simple use, the Beelink SER5 I have seems to have better performance than my 13-year-old Macbook Pro, so I was curious about the upper bound / limits of

> From simple use, the Beelink SER5 I have seems to have better performance than my 13-year-old Macbook Pro, so I was curious about the upper bound / limits of little machines like it. Beware of Beelink. They are known to suffer from weird hardware design issues (i.e., mouse/keyboard activity required to wake up from sleep mode but their USB stack is disabled when entering sleep mode) and are riddled with other hardware issues. I bought one and for example video randomly shuts down a few seconds after booting in without a way to recover. Their hardware issues are surprisingly not the problem. The problem is that their support is limited to their message board, and it's heavily censored to hide all issues. I bothered to go through their china social credit score process to register a user account to report the issues I experienced and all posts were heavily censored. In fact, the first post I noticed being censored out was a reply to a boilerplate post with troubleshooting tips where I simply said that I tried out the suggestions but they weren't effective at fixing or mitigating the problem. This left their board with a thread where a problem is reported, they chime in with a list of fixes that they automatically post to all problems, and by magic no one bothered to reply.