BeelinkMini 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

I am amazed by the performance of this computer! It is VERY deceptive! So, do NOT let it's lack of size fool you. used to be, with My old system,I'd come in, turn on the Computer, take off boots and socks, by then it MIGHT be ready. With this? it's turn it on AFTER I take off boots and socks! It's that kind of fast! As for Fan Noise, what fan? It's so quiet, I thought the Fan wasn't working, or that for some reason did not have one. I'm not a Gamer, so I can't say as too performance for Gaming. It fits My needs,so that in itself meets the bar as far as I'm concerned. As far as Power consumption goes, no idea there. However, I have had two screens up at the same time, using TWO different Browsers at the same time! That, to me, is impressive in itself. Would highly recommend, will have no problem buying from this Seller again.

I bought the 500GB as a replacement because my girls laptop died. She was using the laptop as a workstation with 2 monitors so it made this choice possible. Amazing that this tiny machine supports dual monitors and has the processing power it does. Setup was easy, updates took awhile but went smoothly. I was so impressed I bought the 1TB version for myself to replace a huge computer tower I had built in 2010 that is running WIN10. My computer tower does not have the required specs for WIN11 but these tiny beast come with WIN11 Pro installed. What a huge space saver as seen in the split before and after photo. Big fan of these especially if they both hold up.

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.

UPDATE: A Window's time problem has been corrected as described below.I bought this Beelink Mini system to replace a pair of “hulking” desktop systems running Windows 10 and MX Linux 21. After working around a few problems - see below - this system is fulfilling my needs and should allow me to unload the old desktop systems and free up a lot of desk space! I hope that this review will be helpful to potential purchasers of this or similar Beelink systems.Since the Beelink system came with the Professional version of Windows 11 it was easy to configure the system with a Local rather than a Microsoft account. It took some time to update Windows to release 22H2, but there were no problems in doing so. I was glad to see that no “bloatware” was included in Beelink’s copy of Windows 11.The only problem I found initially was with the time setting. Every time I logged into Windows the time was wrong by a certain number of hours (the minutes were correct) even though the time zone was set correctly! The problem, apparently, is that Linux by default uses UTC time. Windows, on the other hand, maintains its clock in local time. It is this conflict that results in Windows showing an incorrect time. One solution to this problem is to modify Linux so it uses local time rather than UTC time. The details for making this modification vary from one Linux distro to another, but below is the approach I used with MX Linux. (These steps are also shown in two attached screenshots.)===============================--> Run the "MX Date & Time" app.--> Click on the "Date & Time" tab and verify that the proper time zone has been set. If not, use the drop down lists to choose the correct country and city.--> Now click on "Hardware Clock". Make sure the "local" option is selected for "Time zone for the Hardware Clock". Then, under "Time transfer", click on "Hardware Clock to System Clock." Now verify in the listing (shown lower down in the same window) that "Hardware clock is on local time".--> Assuming that all settings appear to be correct, click on the "Apply" button.--> The "MX Date and Time" window can now be closed.The Windows and Linux times should now be correctly displayed.===============================I’m mainly using MX Linux 21.3 rather than Windows, so I added a 512GB SSD to the Beelink system and installed Linux on that disk. There was no problem doing this, but great care must be taken when removing the bottom cover of the Beelink system to avoid damaging the thin cable used to connect the SSD.Once the new SSD was installed I was able to use the Live USB feature of MX Linux to move the system that was on the old desktop system over to the new Beelink. With Windows on the built-in SSD and Linux on the added SSD it is possible to boot either system. (I mainly use Linux, so I modified the “boot” order to start that system by default.)This move went smoothly and only two item required updating on the new MX Linux system:--> The driver for a separately-puchased USB WiFi adapter needed to reinstalled. (The WiFi card in the Beelink is not currently supported under Linux. Once the driver was installed, the WiFi adapter was recognized and my download speed of 195Mbps is about the best possible from my ISP.)--> The Suspend option under MX Linux 21.3 does not work - the system appears to suspend, but it cannot be “woken up”. (Actually, the system may be waking up, but the monitor remains OFF.) To get around this problem I’m using the command:echo freeze | tee /sys/power/stateto turn off all I/O and “freeze” the system RAM. I understand that this approach does not conserve as much power as “Suspend to RAM”, but it is the only Suspend option that seems to work!Once the system was operating correctly with both Windows 11 and MX Linux 21.3, I added an external 2TB SSD (via USB 3) to hold system backups. This external disk has two partitions, one formatted as EXT4 (for Linux) and one formatted as NTFS (for Windows). For Linux I’m using Timeshift to back up the operating system, Backups (i.e. DejaDup) to back up user files, and MX Live USB maker to back up the entire system. NOTE: As an alternative, when running Windows, it is possible to run Macrium Reflect and completely back up the entire Linux disk.I have noticed that the system runs quite “hot” when heavily loaded. For example, the MX Snapshot app uses 100% of available CPU time on all four CPU cores which causes the core temperatures to reach around 95 deg C. I’m not sure if this is causing the CPU to be “throttled”, but such a high temperature can’t be great for either the CPU or other system components. To alleviate this problem (at least to some extent) I purchase two small 40mm x 40mm USB-powered fans and attached them to the sides of the Beelink case (making sure that they are blowing air INTO the case). Running these fans seems to significant reduce the CPU temperatures, although more testing must be done to determine the exact amount of improvement.Be aware that power is maintained on the Beelink USB ports even when the system is powered down! As a consequence, the above mentioned fans will run continuously. Although not too noisy, I wanted a way to turn them off when they are not needed. My solution was to use a 4-port USB hub with push-button switches that can be used to turn the USB power on or off as required. (I’m using a USB 2 hub that I had “lying around”, but I may replace it with a USB 3 hub that will control the fans as well as several other USB devices that I have connected to the Beelink system.)Please see attached picture to see how the fans are attached to the system.

I have purchased several Beehive mini-computers for use in the church office, and for a few clients who only need to do email and web apps and/or browsing. The value for the price is amazing. I don't know how the tariffs will impact Beehive, but currently they are a great deal. They work great, even the Pentium powered units. I recommend Beehive.

I installed Ubuntu and Home Assistant on the raw metal. Works well and uses a very small amount of available CPU, memory, and storage. Not noisy at all.