Mini PC,Mini S12 N95 Intel Alder Lake-N95 (up to 3.4GHz),12GB LPDDR5 512GB SATA3 SSD Mini Desktop Computer, Support 4K@60Hz Dual HDMI Display, 2.5G LAN/USB3.2/Low-Power Home/Office Micro PC

I bought this as I needed a router capable of 2.5Gbps for future internet speed upgrades and I did not want to spend $300+ dollars on a "gaming wifi router", or even more on a business solution. I presently have Gigabit fiber internet but it does provide a little overhead so I wanted to be able to make use of the extra speeds, but I didn't want to raw dog the internet so a router was needed. My fiber box only provides 2 IPs and no way of accessing the admin portal, making a router a necessity before branching out my network. I installed OPNsense on this machine after activating Windows on the included NVME, and replacing it with a spare NVME I had laying around. OPNsense installed like a charm on this little machine and both 2.5Gbps were recognized. I haven't noticed any issues with usability and it does a fantastic job of maintaining sub-70 degree temps. It's almost entirely quiet, so much so that I sometimes feel the need to check and make sure it's still running. From the brief time I spent fooling around inside Windows 11 on it, everything was snappy and usable. I imagine this would make a great mini PC for almost anyone. I can see it being a super useful streaming box for media, or for streaming Steam games in-network. Pros: 1. Dual 2.5Gbps ethernet ports for setting it up as a router 2. Quiet 3. Portable, if you need it 4. Dual HDMI 5. Even has a Type-C port 6. 2.5" SATA hookup for extra storage, should you need it Cons: 1. Getting to the internal NVME and RAM slots is a little difficult as the screw locations require thinner screwdrivers 2. The SATA connector attachment and ribbon cable seem like they could break easily when attempting to change/upgrade the RAM and/or NVME 3. Only 1 stick of RAM on the 16GB version, so you'd get better performance in Windows with dual channel. Overall, I like this thing and I may end up getting another one to fiddle around with for virtualization or for Steam game streaming to my living room.

I’m seriously impressed with this Beelink EQ14 Mini PC. Right now, it’s running my Arista NG / Untangle firewall setup like a champ — IPS, NAT, ACLs, all of it. It chews through traffic without hesitation and stays cool, quiet, and steady the whole time. Before that, it was my OPNsense box, and it handled that job just as effortlessly. It eats threats — nom, nom, nom — without breaking a sweat. Before becoming my edge protection (basically a digital condom with a PhD in security), this little Beelink was my mini office desktop, and it rocked it on the interwebs. Multiple browser tabs, streaming, remote sessions — it didn’t care. Smooth as butter the whole time. The Intel N150 chip and dual 2.5G LAN ports make it perfect for serious networking, and it still sips power like a pro. It’s compact, quiet, and efficient — the kind of setup you forget is even running until you realize how much it’s doing behind the scenes. Just keep expectations realistic — this isn’t a gaming rig. You’re not going to be running the latest AAA titles or cranking out high-end graphics. But for firewall duty, office tasks, streaming, and day-to-day computing, it absolutely shines. If you’re looking for a small, power-efficient beast that can handle both firewall and desktop duty, this little box punches way above its weight class.

Very happy with my Beelink. I setup a firewall/router with this unit, and it's been running perfectly! It ran decent with Windows 10 (about as well as can be expected with the N150 CPU), but it's absolutely perfect for a Linux build. I would not game on this unit, but for light productivity, or dedicated Linux applications, you can't beat the size, power consumption, or the price.

I installed Debian 12 Bookworm on this mini pc along with Docker to run Home Assistant and to make this a mini NAS. Debian 12 fully supports all the hardware with no tweaking or manual work. The amazing thing is that with the 8TDP watts of draw from the processor, the power consumption on this little mini-box is on par with a Raspberry PI 4. With the Raspberry PI4 shortages, this mini-pc is a great alternative and is a substantially faster. The 2.5ghz ethernet really works well and has full VLAN support. It also works fine on a gigabit lan if you have not upgraded to 2.5 yet. With 2 ethernet adapters, this would also make a great pfSense or OpnSense router. The N100 has full AES-NI support and is plenty fast for router duty. Hardware wise, I installed dual Samsung 980 NVME SSDs and raided them in ZFS for security. There is only one SODIMM ram slot, but it runs 16gb with no issues. The board also has a SATA port and location for another SSD if you want to add a little more storage. In summary, this little system is extremely quiet, runs cool, and is a blazing fast with quad efficiency cores. I highly recommend it.

This is a nice little unit I am going to repurpose into my main router after I tinker some more. In trials so far, it's just enough overkill for OPNsense duty. In Plex Media Server duty w/ a 4TB laptop mechanical hard drive installed it hard no problems... until I asked it to display subtitles. I had this set up at a house with much better TV reception than my main home. For just serving up files it's all you need and tbh, still overkill. The moment you need to burn-in subtitles one a single stream (required for all OTA closed captioning), the poor n100 starts screaming. It can handle one instance... and then it starts getting dodgy on commercial detection and if you fire up a second stream w/subtitles it's game over and stutter city. It has enough oomph for audio trascoding for Roku clients but any sort of subs and you're done. I retired it from Plex OTA server duty after 6 months of service. I was running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS fwiw. When hardware subtitles burn-in becomes a thing, this will be enough for any and all probably for a dozen clients but until then, be wary for this particular use case. Like I said earlier, it's really promising as a router; probably the best use case

**UPDATE** January 10th, 2026 - Reducing this to 3 stars due to a defective storage drive. While running OpnSense on this, I frequently ran into issues with local log retrieval. I opted to store logs on the built-in SSD instead of shipping them, knowing that 500GB was hilariously excessive for my needs. I thought the log retrieval issue was a quirk in the OpnSense build I was running, and eventually opted to upgrade to the latest version. After I upgraded to 25.7, my updates to the latest build were failing. Diagnostics showed repeated UFS errors (bad magic number, cylinder checkhash failed, etc.) and I/O errors even after multiple filesystem repairs. These findings combined with the early log retrieval issues certainly point to a failing SSD. I will need to replace the storage drive with something else, which will cost around 60 dollars. I would recommend for anyone purchasing the BeeLink Mini PC's to immediately switch the internal SSD with one from a more reputable brand, even if your local storage needs are low. *********** I purchased this while shopping and researching for a home OpnSense firewall build. Reasons I chose this Mini PC: Compact - Not trying to have an old Optiplex sitting on my TV stand 2.5 Gbps Ports - Absolutely perfect for this application. Better than 1Gbps, but not too much for the hardware to handle. Intel Celeron N100 - Low power, but still considered "high performance" by ZenArmor 500GB NvME - Great for system performance and plenty of space for log storage 16 GB DDR4 - Plenty of overhead for ZenArmor, IDS, IPS, etc. For the uninitiated, OpnSense is an open source, powerful and feature-rich firewall software that allows great visibility and control for your home network. It is free to download and install, and beats the snot out of any consumer wireless router. It can run on a variety of hardware, including old PCs. This Mini PC is perfectly spec'd for OpnSense. For the initiated: My home network is very small: 2 PCs, 2 smart TVs, a robot vacuum and 5 mobile devices. My internet connection is roughly 400mbps down and 10mbps up. I run QoS, ZenArmor and five VLANs. I run OpnSense "bare metal" because I am uninterested in dealing with latency and routing issues brought on by virtualization. I use two TP-Link 8 port Gigabit smart switches and an OpnSense router for wireless VLANs to achieve a multiple SSID network configuration with segmentation. I will admit I was a little bummed that the PC was light grey rather than dark grey like I imagined. I was impressed with the OEM Windows 11 installation, but I immediately wiped it out by installing OPNsense, which went perfectly fine. CPU usage is very low, even during speed tests while running QoS and ZenArmor. I have not installed WireGuard yet but I am certain it will perform just fine. My old HP T620 Thin Client had CPU spikes to 100% pretty consistently and didn't seem to handle local log storage or IDS/IPS very well. It was also much bulkier, and had a 1Gbps NIC. Overall, I am very impressed with this Mini PC's performance. I can't recommend this enough for OpnSense or virtualization projects.

I mounted this mini computer on my TV to handle simple tasks like email, video chatting, and smart home management. Compared to the top-of-the-line, same generation, Intel processor in my laptop, it's much slower and less responsive, but considering its price, functionality and small size, it's a great fit. Key features are good port availability, quiet performance, and value. The SSD can be upgraded, but unfortunately you'll be stuck with 16 Gb of RAM. I set up my own Windows account and one other local Admin account to allow my wife to access Outlook under her own credentials. This turned out to be a good ideal. Like most Windows systems, it requires immediate updating. Its modest speed and memory made updating quite lengthy, requiring about a dozen restarts, many of them manual. It was taking so long and not letting me login between reboots, I almost decided it was defective and needed to go back. My perseverance was eventually rewarded. However it still "stuck" at my login window, probably due to some Windows 11 conflict. Fortunately, that second local Admin account allowed me to get in, delete the first Admin account and create another. I was then able to login to Microsoft for both users and finish setup. I can't blame Beelink for this issue and it might not be a problem for you. That said, play it safe by setting up a second local Admin account before you begin the updating process.

I picked up this little Intel N150 mini-PC (AZW EQ) thinking it would make a perfect low-cost conference room computer. On paper it looked fine: Windows 11 pre-installed, small form factor, decent specs for pulling up files. In reality? Absolute hell. First, Windows wouldn’t even activate after a clean reinstall. I had to go through Microsoft’s ancient phone activation system with those 7-digit group codes like it was 2005. Turns out it does have a legit OEM license baked into the BIOS, but it was a royal pain to get working. Strike one. Then came Dropbox. Spoiler: if you need Dropbox on this system, forget it. The Intel N150 CPU doesn’t support AVX instructions, and Dropbox quietly dropped support for non-AVX processors. The installer ran in circles, half-installed, left dozens of ghost services, registry entries, and broken shell extensions that refused to die. At one point, the service ran but the app wouldn’t launch for the user. Then it would “heal” itself overnight and break again the next day. I lost two full days ripping Dropbox out of the registry, killing leftover services like DropboxElevationService and DropboxUpdater, removing ghost entries from Explorer and Start Menu, and it still ended with Dropbox not working because the CPU simply isn’t supported. This machine might be fine if you only want a web browser or very basic tasks. But if you need business-critical apps like Dropbox, run away. You’ll waste hours chasing your tail before learning the hard way that it’s not even a hardware-compatible system. Bottom line: I’m returning it. Spend a little more on a Dell/Lenovo mini-PC with a real Intel Core CPU and save yourself the lost hair and blood pressure spike. This thing was a time sink I wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Excelente. Estou usando com proxmox para virtualizar o pfsense. Eu havia comprado um firewall appliance da china e so tive problemas. Esse funciona muito bem, esquenta bem menos. Recomendo