Beelink S12 Pro Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Update: This computer died in 4 days. Please see the update video here: • My Beelink Mini PC Die...
A review of the Beelink Mini S12 Pro Mini-PC. Equipped with an Intel N100 4-core processor, 16GB ram, and 512GB SSD. Adequate performance with low idle power consumption, keeping in mind that I am viewing this as a host for Home Assistant, Pi-hole, or Proxmox duty. Cost at the time of purchase was around $185 (including tax and shipping).
I bought this with my own money. I have no affiliation and have had no contact with manufacturer or vender.
=== Timestamps ===
00:00 Introduction
03:15 Initial Impressions
04:10 Internals
08:00 First Boot/Power Draw
10:40 A peek into the BIOS
12:56 Some Benchmarking
18:20 Bootup Time Demo
19:11 Overall Thoughts and Conclusion - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Update: This computer died in 4 days. Please see the update video here: th-cam.com/video/AOhFcA6JoM4/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the teardown. I think you get a much better idea of the quality by looking inside!
Beelink is value for money. I bought MiniS last year with 16gb ram, 256GB SSD with Jasper Lak n5095 CPU for $160, come with win11 Pro. I mainly surf the net and watch Netflix. It is blazingly fast at least twice faster compared with my 12 years old $500 i3 laptop with 8gb RAM in rendering webpages. I bought 17" 3K portable monitor for $150 and $20 mechanical keyboard (blue switch). My 12 years old laptop still works fine as a backup. So far, not even a single crash for 10 months now, maybe because of 16gb ram.
how bad is the fan noise?
Had mine for a week and I love it. Use it in my shop or a/v cabinet in living room for general web / video usage. Dell optical mouse I was using would not work but I swapped it using an old hp optical mouse and worked fine. Slightly warm but not hot. Used my msft sign on and upgrade to latest win 11 pro without issues
I got the mini S12 Pro, N100. I am delighted with my product it's suitable for what I need. Being on a fixed income the cost is very affordable, it's fast, and the video card is a lot better than what I had on my last PC (which was a refurbished one and did not fare well and died only after 6 months). I can play games. Just regular small games. It's simple to use and has Bluetooth and WiFi 6 built-in my speeds are good, but I am on WiFi, and my box is in another room that I share with my kids (4 bedroom House), so my WiFi has to travel and fight through walls but I don't get disconnected UN like my other PC that had a USB WiFi (awful). Overall, I'm very impressed with this unit. I recommend it only if you don't need to do anything fast-paced or editing. In general, it's great for simple everyday use.
hi there, would you recommend this for media consumption? does it handle 4k videos?
If it was plain looking (looked good to you) I would think it looked cheap. The only aesthetics I don't like on it is the the red power button, it's a strong color contrast on a completely black box.
Thanks for the review - much appreciated! Curious - do you think your lower-than-average performance stemmed from your decision to power the display panel off the Beelink as opposed to using a self-powered external monitor?
Could be, or it could be the power limit set in the bios as well. But, it's not that much lower, really. Within 2% on single core and less than 5% on multi.
@@TechDregs Makes sense and thanks again!
I bought the SER6 Pro with Ryzen7 7735HS CPU - this came with real Crucial RAM and Kingston SSD. So far I'm very happy with it, I'd actually been trying to buy a Lenovo m90q gen 3 but they kept cancelling my order after a month or so, and Dell wouldn't sell me a mini PC without Windows (Beelink didn't either but at their prices it didn't matter I would be "wasting" the windows licence .)
love it.Being used daily for my email and you tube viewing from 6am to 10 pm every day with no problems.
Any good for dj software? Eg rekordbox?
Can this be hooked up to a Motel TV to increase tv viewer options like Amazon Prime or TH-cam or even movies saved an external thrumb drive?
Sure, as long as you can access an HDMI port on the TV. For that specific use, something like a Chromecast might be simpler, however.
@@TechDregs Thanks. Never even realized I couild do that.
That sticker on top is to evade having to use a Microsoft account to log in to Win 11. Follow the instructions on the sticker and you can login using a local account.
What is up with the sticky rubber rectangle on the SSD tray covering the instructions?
What is it for? I peeled it off but then stuck it back on but it didn’t stick as well, but wasn’t really using an adhesive either?
Safe to remove?
Could be a thermal pad or just something to protect the M2 drive. That's what it's over.
i wnt to use this to stream consle gameplay would that work and will it work with playstation remote play we want to stream to youtube and rumble with obs
I have no experience with that, unfortunately. Wouldn't that require it to have and HDMI input to capture the feed from the console? I don't think the HDMI ports can be used as inputs, but I've never tried. Maybe you could get a HDMI to USB capture device and use that as an input?
I bought one. It's very good. But Linux users take note: I installed Linux and neither the Bluetooth nor wifi works with Linux. Maybe a future kernel will work, but not now. The N95 processor will work with Linux BT and Wifi, but N100 will not work. Mine also did NOT have Crucial RAM. The advertisements were misleading.
Interesting. You know, I put Home Assistant on it and never even tried the Wifi with that. Just plugged in ethernet and never thought about it. Good info for people that can't hardwire their install.
I was able to get the Wi-Fi working by updating Linux Mint to kernel 6.4 & disabling AX on my mesh network.
@@firestorm2089 did you have any problems using the newer kernel?
I have thought about trying that but I was concerned that this might cause other problems. I wish Linux Mint would use a later kernel.
@@davidhailstone7794 no issue yet, but I haven’t had a chance to use it much. I’ll likely upgrade to 6.5 when available and test with AX enabled.
@@firestorm2089 I'm going to try a newer kernel, taking all precautions first, of course. Thanks.
Can you change it to android os?
How do you hook external speakers up to this mini PC?
It's got a headphone out on the front, but most likely, you'd just get audio from the HDMI output.
Could I use this on a 65 inch tv for work? As a display for techs? No videos just a work template with moving tiles?
Should work fine as long as you're not doing anything too graphically intensive.
@@TechDregs okay I don’t really think so just needed windows :D and don’t want a 3k touchscreen so going with a cheaper alternative. Haha 😂 thank you!
does it have realtek audio manager for sound equaliser?
Unfortunately, I don't use audio on the machine, so I'm not sure what it uses for that. I think you can just download that software though.
A pretty good travel computer, that's for sure.
I would think so, except for this one dying quickly. :-/
@@TechDregs That's not a good sign.
Does it include windows 11 / Microsoft Office pre installed ?
It does come with Windows. I do not think Office is included.
Ok guys just spent a day troubleshooting and repairing a Mini S i had on a tactile screen for a year. The unit was shutting the video output/shutting down after some idle time and was crashing on a light cpu/gpu load. After disassembly I found the thermal paste was crusty as hell (a symptom of it overheating) so i replaced it with some noctua NT-H1. The idle temperature went from 60 celsius to 39 but the Mini S still crashed on benchmark tests and after some time. The definite fix was to reaplly a good thermal paste and install a better fan instead of the CPU 1 pwm fan wich is very badly designed. The Mini S will turn on without the pwm fan connected so I fancied an external usb relay to a 12v fan that keeps the unit at 33 celsius even on workloads. TLDR. Bad thermal design fix is to replace thermal compound and cpu fan.
Thanks, considering this for Plex though I have read in Plex forums that it struggle with video for some reason.
did you end up going with this for Plex? currently considering the same..
@@joela.7325 I'm using mine for plex. All my media is stored on a USB3 external 3.5" drive. Haven't had any playback issues over local network yet. My playback devices are a Xoami Android Tablet, iPhone 13 mini, and PS5.
Just bought this and a n95 version that is higher wattage, one to replace an old Lenovo Thinkcenter all in one. The other just to use as a bench computer, just hoping they hold up. The Lenovo has been great but I’ve done as much as I can to speed it up ssd and added the full amount of ram for the time 4gb. Win10 just kills it 😢
What a charger type? In case my charger is broken
It's a 12v, 3A power supply from Shenzen Keyu, model: KA3601A. See: www.kysdy.com/Products_details/978372898570264576.html
N100 vs N95 , N100 processor use 6Watts. on minis only single ddr 16Go max. so..allays graphic cards too short vs radeon v7 or 10
Thanks for this. Stock NVME SSD and RAM seem terrible. Lol.
My beelink g55 changed the password by it self...now I cannot use it.
If you dont have any personal pictures on it or important documents, you should reinstall Windows or install Linux
Can I install Linux on this
Sure, it's just a normal PC in pretty much all respects.
Mashallah ♥️♥️♥️
You made an update video to the Beelink S12, re-edit this one to indicate that it broke down. I bought it partially on this videos recommendation and a couple days later I see your video that shows it died in 4 days. It would have been really helpful to know that before. Thanks for nothing.
You can't edit videos after they are uploaded (well, you can if you're a huge channel, but not us regular people). I also put it as the recommended video in the end screen. I put the link to the other video as the first thing in the video description, but I'll also pin a comment.
I saw a brand new Porsche on a reviver truck last week. Thing break down, dosent mean they all will.. enjoy ur pc
You could at least clean the monitor screen!!😇
Lame unenthused review. ..very "glass is half empty" toned
If you don't know what the benchmarks mean, why did you use them? If you can't offer your opinion of the unit, why did we listen to you? This looks like a glorified unboxing video.
... it's like you didn't even watch the video... lol
@@TechDregs Sorry, but that would be incorrect. I'm going off of what you said, not my guesswork. It's no different than if i reviewed the product.
No, I am correct. Perhaps you should watch again, and pay closer attention.
@@TechDregs Sorry, i have to disagree with you. I am allowed to do so, right?
And why would i give you another view for something i've already watched? I never said it was a bad video, just pointed out the things i thought should be included. You're free to ignore me, are you?
Sure, I'm not deleting your comments, am I? Post what you like. But I'm also allowed to point out your errors. Anyone who likes can go to ~13 minutes in and see what I actually say about the benchmarks or ~19 minutes in and watch me give 5 minutes of my opinions about the product. Let them determine for themselves whether or not I "understood" the benchmarks or gave my opinions.
Excuse me sir i need this pc for some short video editing with capcut and streaming to twitch at 1080p60 via elgato hd60x my series x do you think its capable for these tasks?
Unfortunately, I don't have much experience with those, so I couldn't really say.