I recently purchased the Beelink Mini PC SER5 Max 6800H AMD Ryzen R7 (Up to 4.7GHz) 32GB LPDDR5 500GB PCle4.0 SSD Mini Desktop Computer, 1000Mbps LAN, Wifi6/BT5.2,HDMI/DP/Type-c/4K Triple Display Micro PC for my parents after issues with a really bad Acer laptop purchase. I don’t think I’ve ever had a good experience with Acer as a brand for laptops; they have cut so many corners that there’s always an issue with them.

Anyhow, going back to the Beelink Mini, I’d say this is going to be a very short review because honestly it does everything I’d expect a device to do. There were certainly a few hiccups, mainly with the bluetooth, and I’ll get into that soon enough.

In terms of power, form factor, capabilities: Beelink is everything I wanted out of a computer for my parents. It doesn’t take up a lot of space. It is nearly noiseless, and it boots up fairly quickly. I can set up everything relatively fast without a lot of trouble. There were a few peculiar issues while installing/setting up Windows 11 for the first time that people should know first before setting up their Beelink:

  • If you set up Windows 11 while connected to the internet, it might not activate properly after it downloads the latest from Microsoft. Think of it this way: when you are setting up your computer for the first time, Windows 11 will first check if there have been new updates, and if so it will pull the latest. Sometimes that latest can be a whole new version itself rather than small updates. If after setting up your computer it cannot activate your computer, no worries, send an email to Beelink’s support and they will help you out.
  • This model of Beelink uses an Intel Bluetooth driver, and the version that Windows 11 uses is outdated, so it won’t search for the latest one. If you are having issues with your Beelink’s bluetooth, I fully recommend updating your Intel’s Bluetooth Driver.
Always look up if your WiFi module is supported before installing.

Overall, it is a great machine and quite inexpensive. I think that if you aren’t doing anything “heavy-duty” such as playing games, or video editing, or video processing, it should be more than good. This is not to say that it cannot do those things, but usually for these tiny machines having a good cooling system/flow in place is very critical. Due to the form factor, there’s a high chance it can just overheat and start throttling while you are doing any of those heavy tasks you have set it to do.