Beelink Mini S12 Pro Mini PC, 12th Intel Alder Lake-N100 (up to 3.4GHz, TDP 6W), 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB M.2SSD, Mini Computer Support 4K@60Hz Dual Display/WiFi 6/BT 5.2/USB 3.2/HTPC/Family-NAS

Great little computer for the price! Starts pretty quickly and Win 11 Pro runs well for basic web tasks. Mounted to the back of a 27" monitor. Being used for a small office mostly for drivers to be able to look up and print their work tickets/route info/etc. I like the dual hdmi but am only using one. Tested the wifi (worked well in my relatively close range test with an ax router) for fallback but am using wired network. This setup has a nice small footprint and pretty low power usage.I've used a couple of a previous model (with N100) for a couple clients- a home user with light web usage and a business front desk mostly used for web lookups, parts ordering, etc. Both happy.Just ordered another to replace a 10 year old office computer, hoping for happy results for that user but plan to post a separate review.

This thing is awesome! The value is fantastic, with such good performance for the price. I opened it up, and the construction is top notch. I'm using this a a dedicated computer for running Home Assistant. It couldn't have been easier to install Home Assistant on it, and it works like a charm!It does have a fan that runs all the time (I was hoping the fan would turn off when the CPU isn't under load), but maybe the CPU needs active cooling even when not under load.I didn't have the ability to load test, but the most power I saw during boot was 12W. When idling with Home Assistant running, it only consumes 8-9W. These numbers are AC input into AC adapter. I don't know the efficiency of the adapter so wanted to also measure the DC input with a benchtop supply, but I couldn't find a suitable DC jack. It has an unusually large center pin on the power input, so pay attention to that if you power from another source. While the AC adapter input is 8-9W, it's 17VA so power factor is only about 0.51. Not very good! So best if you have a very high PF 12V supply in your system to hook this into. One nice thing about the low power consumption is that it can be powered by a PoE adapter that splits out Ethernet / DC power.I was leaning towards a Raspberry Pi 5 for this application to keep power consumption low, but so glad I went this route since it's also very low power consumption, but much better value when you figure in the more powerful processor, memory, and SSD.Note that it does not have a USB-C port, but luckily I don't need one for my application so would hate for the cost to be driven up to add one.

This replaced a Intel i3 desktop that couldn't be updated to Windows 11 and was getting slow. This is a really cool replacement - does everything we need, mounts easily on the back of the monitor, has WiFi and CAT5 internet connections, plenty of USB ports and HDMI ports. I like the size of the SSD, and you can add more RAM if you want. But it doesn't seem to need it. I like everything about this box.I usually build my own desktops, but there's really no need anymore.

I purchased this with the intention of using it as my new Home Assistant server to keep on the basement shelf with all my other home Internet gear. I was impressed by its small size, relatively low power consumption and how feature-loaded it came.Given that this mini PC came with Windows 11 Professional (even withthis low price! ), I diverted this box to my desk for a while to play with it a bit. The Windows build was a bit older, so I ended up testing an in-place upgrade to 24H2, which took about a half hour to complete. Most other activities I ran on this box were at a decent speed for a box of this nature.Since this was going to be my first venture into Home Assistant, I opted to first set this up inside a Hyper-V VM, which started off well, but as I started cramming more components into HA, I realized I was running out of RAM to hold both Windows itself and the VM. I ended up swapping out the 8 GB RAM module for a 16 GB stick I picked up on Amazon as well, and that left me in good shape. Eventually, I got comfortable enough with HA to go beyond the proof of concept stage and wiped the SSD drive and loaded it with a native install of HAOS.While the M.2 SSD interface supports NVMe drives as well, the included drive was only a SATA SSD. I used a Sabrent enclosure that supported both standards to load HAOS on the drive. Had I stuck with the original 8 GB of RAM, I would have been perfectly fine with it, as Home Assistant is currently reporting that it's only using about 1.1 GB out of the 15 GB it sees now.This Mini PC was a perfect choice for my intended use, with good apparent quality and speed for my purposes. Given that I'm not running it too hard and that it's housed in the basement, cooling has not been an issue. Based on my experience here, I would not hesitate to recommend it for a similar use or the need for a small computer in the future.