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This at $340 is more than plenty for basic office computing. Beelink Ser5 Max The non-Max version would work as well at $280. Beelink Ser5 Edit: my bad, just saw the 1tb requirement. Those Beelinks above have a second ssd slot that you could add more storage with. Something like this would work. GMK

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

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

why? ARM Mac writes/reads at about 70%-80% of max speed of external drives on M1...M3 and slightly faster on M4/5 Pro Macs . I Have Beelink SER5 Mini PC W11 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 runs as data server with cheap USB3.0 x 16 HDDs/SSDs with on site backup and off-site rotation Mate Mini-A 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5

I use a Beelink mini-PC as an everyday system. I believe they use AMD Raedon and Ryzen chips in most systems. I have an SER5 with 32 GB, 1 TB NVME and a load of connection options. I run Debian 13 (Trixie) with KDE and it kills. I don't use this as an NAS (I have a Synology device for that), but you

I'd go with the Beelink SER5 MAX. It's $339. It has soldered on ram through so it's not upgradable but it's 24 GB vs. the 8 GB you had. It has 8 cores and 16 threads so it's many times faster than your old PC. You could argue it might be overkill, but it should be a good PC for years to come.

Just bought the beelink ser5 for approx. 350. Ryzen 5 5500U, 32gb ram, only one ssd slot. I want it to manage workflows and use it as nas. Still experimenting with it. But its silent.

Minisforum UM480 XT, Gmktec M5 Plus or Beelink SER5 The beelink is the fastest on paper from looking at the benchmarks and some version allow to for a 2.5 ssd not just m.2 nvme but i would look around really good or wait for more people to chime in

Take a look at the beelink Ser5 max. Slightly cheaper, nearly identical CPU, but with 24 GB LPDDR5 which is not upgradable but is actually slightly faster.

I recently did two fresh Debian installations. One was for a brand new Beelink SER5 mini-pc. The second was on a 2015-vintage Macbook Air. (The MacOS was grindingly slow, so it was time). Both installs went smoothly. The one issue I had with the Air was wireless drivers, and it took a bit of work to