I turned this Beelink SEi 12 mini PC into a Steam Machine. And it worked.

I've got something fun to show you today! This is the Beelink SEi 12 mini PC. Beelink sent this to me to review and it's a little beast of a machine. And when I say little, I mean it. I've got several mini PCs around the house and this is by far the smallest. At like, 80% the size of the smallest competitor, it's perfect for a variety of use cases.

It's got a 10 Core Intel Core i7-126550H Processor, 32 GB of RAM, a 500GB SSD, Wifi 6, and a gigabit NIC. I installed ChimeraOS on this bad boy and it works pretty well... but it's not without its quirks.

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-- Chapters --
00:00 - I've got something fun to show you...
00:33 - Specifications
01:08 - Form Factor & IO
02:22 - Installing ChimeraOS
03:16 - Quirk #1: WiFi
04:00 - Quirk #2: HDR
04:09 - Quirk #3: Variable Refresh Rate introduces lag
04:28 - Quirk #4: Sleep and resume issues
04:45 - Quirk #5: No audio without using desktop settings
05:59 - Performance
06:19 - Linux Bonus: Steam Deck SD Card!
06:33 - Emulation on the SEi12

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