Beelink EQI12 Mini PC,Intel 12th Gen Core i3-1220P (10C/12T,up to 4.4GHz),Mini Computer with 16GB DDR4 RAM 500GB M.2 2280 PCle 4.0x4 SSD,4K Dual Screen Display/Dual LAN/WiFi6/BT5.2/USB3.0

This thing is incredible. I'm running proxmox on it with 6 lxc's and a home assistant vm. The incredible thing is that its running a bare metal frigate lxc (no docker) with 8 cams and its been stable for months and no coral tpu is involved. When i say i'll be buying more of these i truly mean it. The only thing i would change is I would get one with dual NICs but that said it is stable with just one. I guess I should state that one of those LXC's is also running an IMMICH instance with full AI features turned on and if i happen to dump or sync a ton of photos (8000+) and have multiple cams getting whacked with tons of detects then yes the CPU usage can reach 90% but even then it remains stable if a little slow on the IMMICH import. I've never seen the RAM usage go above 8GB, crazy cool

A great PC I use when I travel. Fast relable, does not overheat, quiet, (I have 3 of them now)

Love this mini pc, so powerful. Easy to setup. No noise from fan, fast.

CONS- One Green jack for output to speaker and its in the front!. It gets hot and has no real fan. Have to keep the bak of it clear to dissipate heat. This CANNOT be mounted on back of the monitor like my Ryzen Unit I replaced. Its taking up desk space! Tons of wires all over the desk. USB C is on front of unit.. a USB port is on front. Not enough USB for me I have to use a 4 unit to 1 adapter for USB. Keep in mind this defaults to 1.5 Ghz.. It appears to may have some way to adjust.. IM not sure trying to figure it out. It has adjustable speed depending on workload... This is an energy saving feature. This is really a Laptop CPU Mobil.. I want full speed all the time I don't care about energy savings.. IM trying to get more speed out of this if possible.. The BIOS is complex to say the least.. So I swapped with with Ryzen 7 similar specs.. not much of a difference.. Less hiccups with Intel for my business.. AMD always has problematic software hangs with their GPU.. IM not seeing much of a difference. Setup was easy.. IM likely using a fraction of this computers capabilities. So far.. it early seems OK.. I was expecting more speed... Its not much faster if at all to a Ryzen 7 unit.. Intel always runs nice and clean however.. Im using this for a business.. I like it I THINK!

I bought the i5-1235U model. I wanted a low power, compact, yet powerful mini-PC so I could run Proxmox and multiple virtual machines and LXC containers. I was able to easily load Proxmox 7.4 and upgrade to the Linux 6.2.6 kernel without issue. All hardware was recognized, and no hassle or driver issues. I did replace the NVMe SSD (which BTW, they use Kingston which is a very good brand, so kudos!) with a larger 1TB Samsung 980 Pro. Disassembling the case was not terribly hard, but a little tedious to get the fan and heatsink assembly out.Internally the PC is very premium. They put a thermal pad on the m.2 SSD, and the fan assembly has a large heat spreader that presses against the SSD. This should really help with SSD longevity. There is space and a connector for a SATA 2.5" SSD, in case you need extra storage. The WiFi card uses the m.2 A+E key, so you could in theory remove the WiFi card and install a Google Coral TPU. Those have a massive lead time, so I can't vouch that those cards work in this mini-PC but it should.I have a few minor nitpicks:1) Lack of 2.5Gbps NIC. Intel 2.5Gbps NICs have a history of problems, so maybe use Realtek or something.2) Needs more USB-C ports that are 10Gbps or faster3) The fabric top is baffling. Makes for cleaning and removing dust extremely hard. It needs to be solid plastic like every other mini-PC out there.I contacted tech support to get the auto-power on instructions, which they promptly sent. Took all of 1 minute in the BIOS to change the setting. I verified auto power on works as expected.With a Home Assistant OS VM, and 5 LXC containers, the steady state power draw is 8w. This is excellent! The CPU is very powerful, so even with all these services running steady-state CPU usage is literally less than 2%.I highly recommend this mini-PC! Since the CPU is so powerful, unless you need all the horsepower you could get away with a less expensive model if you want to run Proxmox and a few VMs or containers.

Setup was very simple. Just wish it had more ports but I’ll just get a usb splitter

One of the best mini pcs on the market right now. It just works and for admin use is more than enough

After updating everything and getting it setup. it works great with no issues and It really does have good performance for the price.