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Something with the Ryzen 780m or 890m integrated graphics & that has a oculink or USB4/thunderbolt port My vote is the Gmktec k8 plus it has been a little powerhouse for me it plays most games med-high settings 1080p 50-60fps and with the oculink port you can buy a eGPU dock and graphics card down t

If you live in any part of the Apple ecosystem the Mac Mini M4 is a plus! My granddaughter has a 24GB Mac Mini M4 and lives almost exclusively in the Apple ecosystem (iPhone/iPad/Apple watch/Apple TV/etc). Having said that, she still has a Windows laptop she has to use a couple of times a week for a

I ordered my Beelink SER8 8745 last week directly from their website - took about a week to deliver and no issue so far for me. Quite happy!

I've been rocking a beelink ser8 for about a year now so not long enough to tell reliability but I haven't had issues. I use it as a home file server, Plex server, and calibre library manager. I hooked up a jbod to add more drives and it's been great.

The Asus ROG NUC 970 is great for gaming, but slightly outside that price range unless you can find it on sale. The Beelink SER8 and SER9 are pretty good as well. You can find some good options in this thread

I have a Beelink SER8 8745HS and a SER5 MAX 6800U and both of them run PS3 and Wii U games very well

Great post! Genuine extensive experience with many machines is invaluable information, so thanks for sharing. I'm just an average home user but my experience with Beelink has been nothing short of incredible. Love my ser8 and ser9 and I can also vouch for their customer service. I messed up and trie

Audio interfaces can be finicky with USB. Sometimes you have to get in and adjust latency and bit rate settings and also should point out that an N150 isn't a very powerful processor. You don't say exactly what you were doing soundwise, but if you're playing guitar, the AXE should be doing direct mo

In the past 9 months, Intel Lunar Lake/Arrow Lake and AMD Strix Point/Strix Halo based products have become available, but I think they are a poor value. They are something to ogle at in a YouTube video rather than seriously consider buying. Most people will be interested in last generation chips. A

Good heavens no. That is a Dell from 7 years ago. It would have been considered midrange back then, but today it would not qualify as entry level for a new PC. It is worth maybe $200. You'd be better off buying a Beelink SER8 Mini PC.