{"id":4909,"date":"2023-03-14T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2024-08-30T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T13:47:47","slug":"3-14-2023-the-incredible-300-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/2023\/03\/14\/3-14-2023-the-incredible-300-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/14\/2023: The incredible $300 PC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/advisoratorgreenlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-button-color-color has-css-opacity has-button-color-background-color has-background is-style-wide thickness-2\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This $300 PC does it all<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plus: Google&#8217;s cheap VPN, plain text pasting, and advanced widget tricks<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-metadata ngl-metadata\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;color:#666666;text-align:center;font-size:12px\" data-padding=\"10px,10px,20px,20px\" data-margin=\"0px,0px\"><div class=\"ngl-metadata-pic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/aa0adcee1ed4c584fa5754b6bb2f3067?s=96&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" class=\"avatar avatar-32 photo\"\/><\/div><div class=\"ngl-metadata-author\">Jared Newman<\/div><div class=\"ngl-metadata-sep\">|<\/div><div class=\"ngl-metadata-date\" data-date-format=\"F j, Y\">March 14, 2023<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpchero-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Hey there! I&#8217;m Jared Newman, a veteran tech journalist, and this is the free edition of Advisorator, my weekly tech advice newsletter. If someone shared this newsletter with you, consider <a href=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/signup\/\">signing up to get it every Tuesday<\/a>. Thanks for reading!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<form autocomplete=\"on\" data-app=\"sendy\" class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-form ngl-form ngl-landscape\" action=\"\" method=\"post\" data-padding=\"10px,10px,20px,20px\" data-margin=\"0px,0px\"><div class=\"ngl-form-container\"><div class=\"ngl-form-field\" style=\"margin-right:25px\"><label class=\"ngl-form-label\" for=\"ngl_email\"> <\/label><div class=\"ngl-form-input\"><input type=\"email\" autocomplete=\"email\" required class=\"ngl-form-input-text\" name=\"ngl_email\" id=\"ngl_email\" placeholder=\"Your email...\"\/><\/div><\/div><button type=\"submit\" class=\"ngl-form-button\" style=\"background-color:#587a6c;border-color:#587a63;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;color:#ffffff\">Subscribe<\/button><\/div><div class=\"ngl-message-overlay\"><div class=\"ngl-message-svg-wrap\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke=\"#fff\" fill=\"none\"><polyline points=\"20 6 9 17 4 12\"><\/polyline><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"ngl-message-overlay-text\">Thanks for subscribing.<\/div><\/div><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ngl_list_id\" id=\"ngl_list_id\" value=\"VfZQpI763OmEVHFIFwMJD0iQ\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ngl_double_optin\" id=\"ngl_double_optin\" value=\"yes\"><\/form>\n\n\n<p>Back in early February, I impulse-bought a tiny, inexpensive desktop PC for research purposes. I didn&#8217;t expect it to change my entire computing setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here I am a month later, using the $300 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09SHSQ5CF\">Beelink SER5 Mini PC<\/a> as my daily workhorse, powering a pair of 1440p desktop monitors and smoothly handling any productivity task I&#8217;ve thrown at it. This little computer has been so delightful to use that I&#8217;ve relegated my full-sized desktop tower PC to the basement television, where it&#8217;s now serving exclusively as a gaming rig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider this an enthusiastic product review, but also a lesson on technological overkill. Outside of some specialized use cases, the required compute power for getting things done might be a lot less than you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sizing up the mini PC<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Beelink sells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/stores\/Beelink\/page\/E76F7A4A-070E-428C-9129-832B18C1493F?ref_=ast_bln\">an array of miniature computers<\/a>, but the one I bought currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09SHSQ5CF\">costs $289<\/a> with the following specs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>16 GB of RAM (DDR4)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>512 GB of storage (M.2 NVMe)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Windows 11 Pro<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Front ports: Two USB-A 3.2, one USB-C, 3.5mm audio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rear ports: One USB-A 3.0, one USB-A 2.0, two HDMI 2.0, gigabit ethernet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkpcrear-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spec-wise, this is roughly on par with laptops in the $500 to $700 price range, except of course you&#8217;ll have to supply your own mouse, keyboard, and screen. The 5&#215;5-inch frame is small enough to pick up with one hand, and it comes with VESA brackets for mounting the computer to the back of a monitor or television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beelink SER5 also hides a neat feature on its underside: Removing the bottom plate reveals a slot for a 2.5-inch storage drive. I bought a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07YD579WM\">1 TB solid state drive<\/a> to store all my OneDrive files locally, and the PC recognized it without issue. (The device&#8217;s RAM and M.2 storage drive are upgradeable as well.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ser5innards-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">There&#8217;s room for a 2.5-inch SSD in the bottom cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it fares<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Going in, my plan was to briefly play around with the SER5&#8217;s default Windows 11 Pro installation before going back to my regular desktop for work. Even if I didn&#8217;t use the mini PC regularly, I figured it&#8217;d be useful for experimenting with other operating systems such as Linux or <a href=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/2022\/07\/19\/7-19-2022-reviving-an-old-macbook\/\">Chrome OS Flex<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, the transition to daily work was so seamless that I never went back to my old computer at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a tech journalist, my work typically involves writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/obsidian.md\/\">Obsidian<\/a>, chatting in Slack with colleagues (<a href=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/join-the-advisorator-slack-crew\/\">and Advisorator readers<\/a>), juggling a few dozen browser tabs <a href=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/2022\/11\/15\/11-15-2022-im-switching-web-browsers-again\/\">in Brave<\/a>, and attending video calls in Zoom or Google Meet. The Beelink SER5 handled all those tasks without ever noticeably slowing down, and it&#8217;s much quieter than the full-sized desktop I&#8217;d been using before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I threw some more ambitious tasks at the mini PC as well, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/2023\/02\/14\/2-14-2023-lets-digitize-a-vhs\/\">digitizing some old VHS tapes<\/a>, recording streaming video sources via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techhive.com\/article\/579775\/playon-streaming-dvr-just-got-a-lot-pricier.html\">PlayOn Home<\/a>, and running a Plex media server. Even with Plex&#8217;s commercial detection and PlayOn&#8217;s recording engine running in the background, I continued to work without any noticeable performance setbacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while integrated Radeon graphics are no match for a dedicated graphics card, the Beelink SER5 fared well as a low-end gaming device. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/agecheck\/app\/834530\/\">Yakuza Kiwami<\/a><\/em> ran at a smooth 60 frames per second on high settings at 1080p, and both <em>Fortnite<\/em> and the post-apocalyptic cat simulator <em><a href=\"https:\/\/stray.game\/\">Stray<\/a><\/em> were playable at 1080p with framerates closer to 30 frames per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All this led to a realization that my hulking desktop PC was just wasting space while also being excessively loud and energy-intensive, and after a couple weeks I moved it out of my office for good. I gave it a factory reset, configured it exclusively for gaming in the basement, and now only turn it on as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lesson learned<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/advisorator.com\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/beelinkminipc.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When shopping for computers, it&#8217;s always tempting to buy for every potential use case, both real and perceived, now and in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SER5 is a reminder that we&#8217;ve reached a point of diminishing returns for most computing use cases. Despite having just a mid-range processor (one designed for laptops, at that), I was never wanting for more power or wishing I&#8217;d splurged on a pricier computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But mostly, I&#8217;m just happy to have a quieter office and a better place for the gaming PC that once occupied it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-callout undefined not-color-set\" style=\"border-color:#eeeeee;border-style:solid;border-width:0;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:#f9f9f9\" data-margin=\"0px,0px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Hi there!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The rest of this newsletter is exclusively for Advisorator&#8217;s paid subscribers, who get tech news roundups, bonus tips, useful apps to try, and great deals in every newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p 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