Checking out the SER8 8845HS 

The best part about a Wendell review is that he answers the questions I have about a product before I ask the question. The "what abouts" are addressed right away.

11:12 this is because Beelink is using a massive 110mm fan. Its moving about 2-3x more air without more noise.

Mini PCs are just kicking ass lately!!! Sooo many options!

Every time Wendell laughs like a mad scientist God makes a kitten. We need more kittens in this world.

Damn, that's a solid bios

Been noticing the Linux thing myself, lots of people out there really unhappy with Windows 11 even before the whole recall fiasco.

Considering the amount of Mini PCs Wendell has been doing recently, you could say he's ETA Prime without the unnecessary shilling.

Come on dear manufacturers, release such a product with support for unbuffered ECC SO-DIMMs.

Seems reasonable. I'm still not completely sold on this form-factor for heavy usage. That said, BeeLink has done an excellent job of testing the market response of their products.

I got the SER6 Pro last year. Unfortunately, my experience with it was pretty bad all around. I had a handful of problems that were dealbreakers for me (such as mysteriously not being able to use 2 monitors, even though it has 3 outputs?). I was going to send it back, but I gifted it to my dad for his birthday, since the things that were problems for me, weren't problems for him (he only uses a single monitor, etc.). It was my first small form factor purchase, and it will be my last one for a while. To be perfectly clear, I'm not saying it's a bad piece of hardware. I still use it from time to time, when I'm doing routine updates and whatnot for my dad (since that's beyond his knowledge). It's a fine little machine. It was just very specific problems I encountered. I'm glad others like theirs, though.

Looks like they pulled back a little on the IO vs. the SER7, which has a couple more USB ports in back.

This is a fine Mini PC. but for almost half the price you can get a 7840HS "ES" one from Genmachine . its about %10 slower than this since its using an engineering sample. You can still overclock it though. paid $330 for 32gb/512gb from AE.

it is the year of the linux desktop.

you should directly compare it with a full blown desktop pc, f.e. if somebody runs a ryzen 5700 with some obsolete dedicated video card and this one, is it a upgrade worth going for? performance vs noise vs space saving vs power consumption, as we know desktop cpus as well as gracas have other power limitations than basically what we have in a laptop or nuc like device /soldered cpu+crippled gpu+ oftens soldered ram/ so compare this device on standard settings /expo set to what the ram is capable/ with the desktop - to answer are we there yet? a box sized like 3 CD/DVDs are equal or better as midrange full grown desktop from 4ish years ago

Thank you, Wendell! 👍🏼

VESA mount not included? Fine by me, good cost cut.

I can't wait until Mini PCs can run 70B LLMs... hopefully in less than 5 years.

Some people are reporting trojan software built in, I don't know if it's baked into BIOS or just in the windows . Can someone please verify if that's true?

These make excellent VESA mounted eMachines for people or your media center. Much cheaper then a laptop that grandma or dad dosent take anywhere!

So like the gmktec nucbox k8 but only one 2.5 Gbit Ethernet port and a slower SSD plus Alu case. Edit: K8 comes with Win 11 Pro (no bloat, no trojans). Under Linux everything worked out of the box on KUbuntu 24.04, Debian (Bookworm) and Garuda Linux (Arch based) Gaming performance was slightly better under Garuda for everthing I tested (Total War: Warhammer III, Stellaris, Baldur's Gate III) then on Win 11. Machine runs as OpenMediaVault NAS with Jellyfin, PiHole an Nextcloud in docker Containers. A ICY BOX 4 bay JBOD USB HDD encloser (IB-3640SU3) with 4 x 20TB Toshiba Enterprise MG10ACA20TE in 3+1 SnapRAID configuration for media storage and a Samsung 980 Pro (Heatsink) 2TB SSD drive as dedicated storage for Nextcloud. Note: BIOS looks exactly like on my K8

man, i saw Beelink mini PCs on their way from my Amazon FC to another recently :O

I cannot access any of these options in the bios seems they locked it down since the video

My wifi is terrible, the 5800h sat right beside it is fine, maybe the metal case, only way i have any download speed is use a mobile hotspot on the other device but its still only four metres from the router.

Welcome back!🎉

smart Integrators will put several pcie slots for either storage or #NPU cards.

I wish there were more mini PCs with at least a 10Gb ethernet port, or SFP+.

Had pretty good luck with beelink but I had one arrive doa today.

I think its time to upgrade my parents home theater pc. They are currently running an i7-2710Q in an industrial mini ITX motherboard. Its done its time.

Reddit says it's overheats, Basically SER7 in smaller case, tough.

Wendell...did you lose a lot of weight ? If it's the case or not, looking great man !

$650 pass. Mostly because of low ram. I have a 2yo system76 5700u system with 64GB of ram. When I need to compile laptop specific extras, it takes all of 10 minutes from a ramdisk. Or over an HOUR if done on a different 2017 laptop on a USB stick. Or needing to redo sudo passwords 3x times on a usb stick on the system76 laptop, 30-ish minutes. 30-ish minutes of monitoring it and pushing enter for the next verify. Definitely not a right before I go to work task without the ramdisk.

Looking at the average unboxing for a mini-pc it really isn't much of a wonder how malware ends up on them. No physical anti-tamper seals, no tear open packaging, and various marketplace re-sellers. If you think you could re-package hardware and sell it as new then you should always treat the software as if it were used.

I think really a laptop is still the best form factor with a decent dock. Back in the day there was a true difference between a desktop and a laptop. Don’t get me wrong there still is but the computing power we can fit into a small form factor is astounding to what it used to be. The first PC I built (following a video from tech syndicate) was a huge Corsair obsidian tower and looking at what my laptop can do now compared to that machine is really impressive. Anyone know what the best way of recycling old tech is? That Tower PC is just sitting there now as I have a new build and no idea what to do with this old behemoth!

I would like to see how Ollama runs on this?

is this based of the asrock sbc that was released recently?

Linux happenings are exciting! I recently moved away from Windows and am so happy with Linux.

I am curious the max memory supported on these.... you should try to install 96gb (48gb times 2) and see if it runs and works. ive been (ignorantly?) been running LM Studio on my 7840hs mini pc and I get about 10 tokens a second. with 32gb memory I am pretty much limited to LLMs that are about 29gb or less. And they do run! slow (1-10 tokens a second) but still. I wanted to run larger models but sadly not enough ram to do so.... I wanna try to run a 70b model and 96gb of ram would make it fit. sure answers will take a few minutes to populate.... not worried about speed. just capacity.

When will we se😢e 1tb ram 10 tb HD and 64 cores in a mini pc

That is what the Mac mini should have been in the pre-Arm era. I wish Apple would have worked with AMD, at least after Ryzen came out.

"The only improvement is about AI" I swear I'm just going to end up doing a meme video about AI.

How about crucial 96 GB DDR5 48 GB dimms😊

So I’m curious why don’t they make it a bit bigger and have an internal pico psu? Like a Mac mini? Is it cost?

I'll wait until the SER5 16GB ram is < $200

What, 3GBps ssd is nothing special, nothing bad? Sir, it's more than enough for any use case. Please remember that not long ago we had 100MBps HDDs and were somehow satisfied with them.

With the Snapdragon Elite just around the corner, I'd be hesitant on getting one of these hot running mini-pcs

I need one 16 core with 10G NIC

Link in description is a 404. :)

Linux is awesome

Isn't the NPU in the 8845HS insufficient for Copilot+? Bummer if it's already obsolete, but I wonder what else it can do.

Ser8 good! Me ser7 ...

Can this play borderlands 3 at 1080?

TROGDORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Am I the only one who hates 2.5gb Ethernet? Either make it 10gb or don't charge me for 2.5gb. I'm not going to use it.

They copied the Geekom A7/A8, which copied the Mac Mini.

really this is not any better (in CPU benchmarks) than a Core Ultra 7 thin and light laptop I have. And this is in a larger form factor with presumably better cooling.

already can't stand AI, not going to buy anything with that stuff in it, heaps of cheap older machines out there. I'm exploring mini PCs in the opposite direction, going for the lowest power that can be VESA mounted behind the monitor and still be enjoyable as a desktop on linux. Waiting for a 2C/2T celeron machine that cost $50 shipped.

It's "Al You Minium " signed your friend across the pond.

I wish the stupid logo could be peeled off.

Geekbench is not a stress test like Cinebench 23 or 2024. It's not representative of anything and not comparable to other computers. So... drop it altogether and instead of making Bla Bla Blas review run some Cinebench 23, 2024 tests!!! 👎👎

Stop adding those annoying fake sounds....

It's too bad these units are not suited for enterprise usage. The OS license will never be in your possession on these units and Beelink can't guarantee ownership.

Chinese 'Junk o' The Month". Next month they won't be making it anymore and there'll be something newer.