Beelink-shop via Amazon has
Beelink SER5 Max Mini PC on sale for
$299.
Shipping is free.
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Dr.W for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- AMD Ryzen 7 MAX 6800U Processor
- AMD Radeon Graphics 12 core 2200 MHz
- 24GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 500GB M.2 2280 PCIe4.0 SSD
- WiFi6, Bluetooth 5.4 and 2.5G LAN
- Win 11 Pro
- Ports:
- 1x HDMI (max 4K 60Hz)
- 1x USB-C (data & video)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen2 (10Gbps)
- 2x USB 2.0
- 1x DisplayPort 1.4
- 1x 2.5 Gbps LAN
- 1x 3.5mm phone jack (realtek ALC897)
- 1x DC-in
Top Comments
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There is a very big discussion to be had here about risks, costs, feasibility etc, but at the end of the day, the chances of hardware containing low-level and hardware-level malware being sold on websites like Amazon are greater every day. The technology has been proliferating since the early 10s, we've seen backdoors in name brand consumer-grade networking equipment (TP-Link and Netgear), we've seen bundled OS malware on "name brand" mini (Acemagician) PCs. There is practically zero regulation and protection for consumers today. There are enterprise protections for these attack vectors but they are mostly unavailable to end users.
Pragmatically speaking, if you must to buy these Chinese brands of mini PCs and you want to minimize your risk, the safest approach is to install a Linux distro and assume any data you enter will be compromised. At the very least, installing a clean copy of Windows has a good chance of wiping out software-level malware and generally speaking that's going to be the cheapest and thus most common attack vector - though it may not work if you have firmware that reloads the malware.
It's kind of funny, even companies like HP have been using their own in-house firmware-level malware that auto loads their invasive telemetry into Windows since at least the mid 10s. It isn't super sophisticated but you have to run an agent or scripts to constantly keep it from re-enabling itself.
Just be wary of people telling you to blindly trust these companies, most of them are just parroting things they want to hear.
Community Reviews
This Beelink SER5 Max is a compact Ryzen 7 6800U mini PC that stands out as a strong little workhorse for general use, Plex, BlueIris, emulation, and other home lab tasks. The 24GB soldered LPDDR5 and 500GB PCIe 4.0 SSD are seen as a solid, future proof spec set, and the chip is described as a bit faster than a Steam Deck. Long term reliability gets praise, with reports of rock solid operation in client installs and other Beelink systems. The main cautions are that it is not ideal for gaming, Windows setup and updates can be messy, and one unit kept trying to connect to an MDM on first boot.
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And no, they don't sell them any more on their site so you're just fabricating it for some reason.
https://www.bee-link.com/products...7891
I think this is 32GB version and it's $50 more
https://a.co/d/50htkRv
So either post a link, or stop posting nonsense.
Do you have a working link to the official BeeLink website? Thanks
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Not sure what you mean about windows restarting itself. You mean for windows updates and such? That should be configurable however the better option to make your Plex server a Windows service so it doesn't need you to login to run:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-as-a-service/53381
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