After 6 months of use as a daily driver pc here's my review. The parts used in Beelink pc's are no name possible cheap clones. I tried serching them with no luck other than finding companies like timetek. The m.2 driver seems currupt and now the HDMI port is dying along with sound driver issues. <1star quality>
Their support sends you to a sketchy megadrive site to download their drivers from hongkong. Which I guess goes around windows updates. These drivers need to be manually installed in an attempt to fix it. After this didn't work I was told "Sorry it doesn't work, good bye." (Its within the 1 year warranty).
Because I fix and build computers, I know the steps they sent me would be over 80-90% of users abilities. They seemed more like a support service that tries to denie warranty or give you a run around with 48 hour replies in the hopes you go away. <1 star. Support>
At $200+ dollars your better off using that as a down payment on a better system or Chromebook. Considering this is a low grade CPU only good for emails and web browsing with no name low quality internal parts from china knock offs. Its also has a odd plastic clicking sound like when plastic cools and shrinks it makes a little crack sound. But there's a reason these things are cheap. <1 star $ to value>
I originally bought this to try out win 11 (at the time I didn't have a win 11 capable machine) and use less power and space for web browsing and light duty work. Since it fails in its reliability I cant use it for that as I may loose important data. Which happened after 6 months of use, thankfully nothing critical with 100s of hours, and I wasn't relying on it to store pictures of loved ones.
The detailed story for those who care. After 6 months the windows 11 began to corrupt on me. I would have to fix it from time to time (I always turn off windows with the start > power off menu.) One day it refused to boot up. At the time It had been turned on 168 times with about 480 hours of use according to crystal disk.
Windows repair could not fix the issue and all data was un recoverable. So I re installed windows. A few days later it caused the same problem. So I installed Linux and it worked, for a while. Eventually the HDMI sound stopped working. Then it had a corrupt update on linux.
I went back to windows 10, figuring my 1st issues were with win 11. But win 10 could not find an HDMI audio output no matter what I tried. After a few weeks of little use, I swapped back to linux and found linux couldnt find sound either. So I stopped using it for the winter.
I dusted it off recently and installed win 11. On a new SSD removing the no name m.2 drive. Figuring that was the problem. Still no fix. Then the HDMI port stopped working. I contacted support, 48 hours later they got back to me. At this point I'm still inside of 1 year warrenty.
This is where it gets sketchy I was directed to a unknown link where drivers from Hongkong was uploaded to "megadrive" the instructions looked like a scanned paper copy but I did it. Using only the mini PC. I was caught off guard by this day in age a tech company not having their own web page for this sort of thing. Instead using a service that has pirated uploads and other oddities. Its a bit like napster or piratesbay of the early 2000's.
The steps to fix it and update the drivers would be above at least 90% of the users computer ability (I fix and build computers) with unzipping folders, selecting the driver from device manager and then chosing the correct folder all of which are named something like 'AMD64atipdriver'.
At some point with fiddling with all the wires the monitor started working (but not sound)
The good: its small... so theres less e waste when I throw it in the garbage.
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