These miniform pcs have been doing amazing moving the price in a better direction. We purchased this model with 20% voucher and it put the price nearer being able to compete with the laptop our son wanted. The Beelink has a competitor that has not been able to achieve getting the price out of the 4 digits, which limits the market to novelty buyers as once you get the monitor and peripherals it does not compete with a 1440p desk top build with the ability to upgrade over time. In short, the cost matters for a product with a very limited life depending on use. As a home unit for web surfing and medium gaming with light work it is a great bit of kit if you are happy with limited upgrading.
Prices are getting better, the last one we looked at was an intel system, quite high end but of course not gaming wise without a GPU and that was much more expensive than this one. I here the next generation one with the new AMD graphics are nearly double the price of this one in the video though :(
@@TechLabUK It is a very capable product. Gamers generally will not be looking at this. That is not to say a parent would go wrong getting this for a child to do home work, surf and light games. This pc does have a huge place in the work environment. Most companies run in house IT and servers, this system would be excellent for accounting, emails, specifically hospitals and care environments that keep care plans and specific information in house and do in house training. Just from a business stand point it would replace all the tired dust collector Dells and perform extremely well. These have a place for sure as long as it is marketed to buyers not interested in long term use due to lack of upgrade. For the price it would perform better than most "gaming" prebuilds that are using 15 year old gpus on 10 year chipsets. I went back to Amazon to try to add your affiliate link, it is already sold out. Wow. Many kids will be playing roblox or Fortnite this coming Christmas morning lol.
@Venom-n7d - I have Studio One v6.4. I also have PowerDirector 365 and OBS on it. And that's all I have. Everything else is done on a different machine..
@@BenDrawdy78 I have used this one for a few weeks now while being connected to WiFi and had no issues so far. For the BT I don’t use it often over connecting a controller for playing games and had no issues doing that either yet.
It's just a shame that not all new Mini PCs don't come with an oculink port. It would make them SO MUCH more desirable! Thanks for the video. Interesting APU. I didn't know it existed as of this video. I wonder if AMD will do the same with their latest 370 AI something APU.
Hi i recently purchased one and ive been trying to get it to run arma reforger at 60 fps could you give me any tips, i can get it to 30fps but i can't get it stable in full-scale gameplay
Great to hear. Unlike like pc's consoles don't have windows to eat up ram so any mini/mobile pc should at least go with 32gb of ram to make space for windows, game files and over 8GB of "v"ramas weaker chips need more for frame gen and up scaling. @@TechLabUK
Yes, it came with Windows 11 pre-installed. We always re-install our units and systems when they come in to remove any form of bloatware and we installed Windows 11 Pro onto this unit with no issues and it digitally activated fine.
Its really Ironic, this Mini PC who use Laptop CPU have WiFi, RAM and Storage removable more easy than now days laptop which solder everything to motherboard claming its cost more cheaper to built than removable part like this.
Yeah I have a nice Samsung laptop that I really like, but I'm stuck with it's ram being on the motherboard. Smart for people who just want to sell a ton of PC's but it sucks for consumers like us.
according to these merchants, disguised as "reviewers" you should buy a new product every time it's released, like the mobile phones, like a new shiny toy. and every time more expensive. no thanks, merchant, keep marketing what you're being paid for
These miniform pcs have been doing amazing moving the price in a better direction. We purchased this model with 20% voucher and it put the price nearer being able to compete with the laptop our son wanted.
The Beelink has a competitor that has not been able to achieve getting the price out of the 4 digits, which limits the market to novelty buyers as once you get the monitor and peripherals it does not compete with a 1440p desk top build with the ability to upgrade over time.
In short, the cost matters for a product with a very limited life depending on use. As a home unit for web surfing and medium gaming with light work it is a great bit of kit if you are happy with limited upgrading.
Prices are getting better, the last one we looked at was an intel system, quite high end but of course not gaming wise without a GPU and that was much more expensive than this one. I here the next generation one with the new AMD graphics are nearly double the price of this one in the video though :(
@@TechLabUK It is a very capable product. Gamers generally will not be looking at this. That is not to say a parent would go wrong getting this for a child to do home work, surf and light games. This pc does have a huge place in the work environment. Most companies run in house IT and servers, this system would be excellent for accounting, emails, specifically hospitals and care environments that keep care plans and specific information in house and do in house training. Just from a business stand point it would replace all the tired dust collector Dells and perform extremely well.
These have a place for sure as long as it is marketed to buyers not interested in long term use due to lack of upgrade. For the price it would perform better than most "gaming" prebuilds that are using 15 year old gpus on 10 year chipsets.
I went back to Amazon to try to add your affiliate link, it is already sold out. Wow. Many kids will be playing roblox or Fortnite this coming Christmas morning lol.
I've had this machine a few weeks now and have no complaints. I bought it specifically to do light DAW work and video editing...
What daw you running on this?
@Venom-n7d - I have Studio One v6.4. I also have PowerDirector 365 and OBS on it. And that's all I have. Everything else is done on a different machine..
That's the one I have but 24GB ram. Pretty good for now, except the wifi and Bluetooth that are choppy, even within one meter.
That’s annoying, I was using it cabled up so will give WiFi a go and see what happens.
I wish they fix the acpi bios issues though
Could you do a small review of the Wifi and BT with the latest drivers? Ive read a lot of negative things about that aspect of the SER8
@@BenDrawdy78 I have used this one for a few weeks now while being connected to WiFi and had no issues so far. For the BT I don’t use it often over connecting a controller for playing games and had no issues doing that either yet.
I like the previous model more, it has SD card slot, which is a very useful for me.
Can I power a 30W display from USB 4? I have read that the Beelink SER8 can power up to 15W.
This is a great mini pc but it needs occulink which is much faster than usb4 or thunderbolt and some of these mini pc's do have this built in.
Just one question though, where did you get the Windows games from? 😊
Steam, Epic, GoG etc
It's just a shame that not all new Mini PCs don't come with an oculink port. It would make them SO MUCH more desirable!
Thanks for the video. Interesting APU. I didn't know it existed as of this video. I wonder if AMD will do the same with their latest 370 AI something APU.
Not sure, would be interesting to see though.
Hi i recently purchased one and ive been trying to get it to run arma reforger at 60 fps could you give me any tips, i can get it to 30fps but i can't get it stable in full-scale gameplay
Did you allocate a specific amount of ram to the gpu? Should help the 1% lows
Bumped the GPU up to 8GB as shown in the video which helped. Will go to 16GB though so might do some more in depth testing.
Great to hear. Unlike like pc's consoles don't have windows to eat up ram so any mini/mobile pc should at least go with 32gb of ram to make space for windows, game files and over 8GB of "v"ramas weaker chips need more for frame gen and up scaling. @@TechLabUK
Great video, I've ordered one due tomorrow, does Windows 11 come pre-installed? Thanks
Yes, it came with Windows 11 pre-installed. We always re-install our units and systems when they come in to remove any form of bloatware and we installed Windows 11 Pro onto this unit with no issues and it digitally activated fine.
@@TechLabUK Did you need to re-enter an activation key?
@ No, it digitally activated.
@@TechLabUK So, automatically
@@estusflask982 It should do as the keys are tied to the hardware now.
I love these
I love this one too. Most powerful one I have used so far (Without attaching a GPU) and this is perfect for my second system.
Its really Ironic, this Mini PC who use Laptop CPU have WiFi, RAM and Storage removable more easy than now days laptop which solder everything to motherboard claming its cost more cheaper to built than removable part like this.
Yeah I have a nice Samsung laptop that I really like, but I'm stuck with it's ram being on the motherboard. Smart for people who just want to sell a ton of PC's but it sucks for consumers like us.
according to these merchants, disguised as "reviewers" you should buy a new product every time it's released, like the mobile phones, like a new shiny toy. and every time more expensive. no thanks, merchant, keep marketing what you're being paid for
When you see the rest of our content you will realise how silly this comment really is.
Noti gang
Great little unit, more than enough for a secondary PC or something to take to Lans (If that's still a thing lol).
Do you think this could run Fortnite?
yes definitely
Apple should sue they ripped off the mac mini
I think a lot of Mini PC's seem to look like this now, never really seen a Mac Mini tbh so no idea how close they are.
This came out before the Mac Mini M4
This was out months before the new mac mini
No its not.