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SER5

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Anyone else switching to a mini PC and feeling kind of… surprised?

After owning desktops and towers, I finally started buying Lenovo thinkcenter mini PCs. I now have a Beelink SER6 Pro with a 32GB ram and a 1TB hard drive. I’ve been using this for a at least a couple of years, so this last fall I updated all the computers at our office to BeeLink SER5. Very very pl

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bidhopper in r/MiniPCs

February 12, 2026 3:47 PM

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Stronger alternative to Raspberry Pi?

I got a Beelink Mini PC SER5 Pro running SteamOS in one of my cabs and I absolutely love it.

bartenderatlarge in r/cade

May 7, 2026 5:22 AM

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Is a Windows reinstall recommended?

The Beelink SER5 MAX I recently setup included a clean windows 11 install. I was completely blown away by the lack of bloatware and legit just kind of stared for a few minutes as I contemplated life and the meaning of an OEM machine NOT having bloat/spyware galore (well beyond win 11 itself). Needle

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Tool_of_Society in r/MiniPCs

October 7, 2025 12:18 AM

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F* this... Anything I should know before hopping?

You have no idea how true this is. I discovered Linux in the very early days (around 1992) when it was on version 0.93b or something ancient. Tarballs and a shell. No windowing, DEs or anything. A true learning experience because you often had to find your own way. The Internet resource back then wa

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joe_attaboy in r/debian

December 3, 2025 3:45 PM

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Mini PC/NUC form factor Hardware for running this list of services?

honestly those are all pretty light workloads, you dont need much. a beelink ser5 or eq12 would be plenty - they go for like $150-250 on amazon and have decent cpus. or if you want even cheaper, grab a used lenovo thinkcentre tiny or dell optiplex micro off ebay for like $80-100. either way 16gb ram

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harry-harrison-79 in r/selfhosted

February 16, 2026 4:55 PM

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Emulation up to Xbox, around $300

I have a beelink ser5 max with a full batocera build installed on a secondary drive. You can find the system itself for around the 350+ mark with some shopping, though it seems to be running a bit more expensive now (I bought before tariffs etc became an issue). It comes with win11 pro but you can i

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Electronic_Swim_1206 in r/batocera

March 4, 2026 3:48 AM

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PC Recommendations?

ABSOLUTELY LOVE my Beelink SER5 MAX. The Ryzen 7 5800H is PLENTY fast for my taste. Then, once I upgraded the RAM from 16GB to 32GB - Now this puppy SCREAMS! I highly advise you to at least look into them. I've never had one problem - well, only something very minor that was actually my fault: and I

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Tech_IS_Fun in r/MiniPCs

January 22, 2026 6:35 PM

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My humble home lab / self-hosted setup

up until recently I ran ~25 containers and ~6 VMs on my mini PC, a Beelink SER5 Max 32GBthat I got last July for a little over $300. Virtually my entire homelab was on it, and I still had about 40% of the RAM free. Handled Jellyfin transcoding without missing a beat and can even run a small 7b qwen

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bankroll5441 in r/selfhosted

March 18, 2026 6:34 PM

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SteamOS Edge

I believe gamescope only really works on amd hardware, which would explain why chimera drops to desktop, since it can't load gamescope. Works well on my beelink SER5 pro.

Sirchacha in r/holoiso

December 9, 2025 9:36 PM

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Setup Discussion

It's a Beelink SER5 Mini PC with AMD Ryzen 5 5500U and 16GB RAM. I got it two years ago for like $250USD but it looks like it's $100+ more expensive now. Plays PS2/Dreamcast/Gamecube games great. OG Xbox games seem to work on it too, the couple of them I've tested anyways. I want to try a PS3 game s

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WhysAVariable in r/retrogameofthemonth

April 13, 2026 6:32 PM

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