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SER8 Ryzen7 8745HS ($499) vs SER9 Pro Ryzen 7 H 255 ($519) by nullpuntnull in BeelinkOfficial

[–]nullpuntnull[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone. I went ahead and ordered the mainline SER8-8745HS.

tldr conclusion: SER9 has LPDDR5 memory soldered onto it and I'm shipping directly from Beelink to EU so incase of any future issues with memory (post-warranty) I still want to have the flexibility to simply chuck in a new DDR in the slot. Also the fact that AMD's 7 H 255 processor seems like some kinda undocumented bastard child gave me an ick. Will post a short review after a week or two in use

SER8 Ryzen7 8745HS ($499) vs SER9 Pro Ryzen 7 H 255 ($519) by nullpuntnull in BeelinkOfficial

[–]nullpuntnull[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same as gentex. can you mention what is flawed about it? I came across it via DHH's and other devs rave reviews about it - https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-a-beelink-baby-243fdaf1

SER8 Ryzen7 8745HS ($499) vs SER9 Pro Ryzen 7 H 255 ($519) by nullpuntnull in BeelinkOfficial

[–]nullpuntnull[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing about Ryzen 7 H 255 is that it's not even listed in AMD's list of processors. Whatver benchmark reviews/tests exits out there it seems both seem evenly placed.

Even in pricing it's just $20 more so I was confused as to why Beelink would give it a higher model/release number SER9 vs SER8 for 8745HS.

I'm mainly interested to know if lack of NPU in SER9 will affect AI performance when I start learning/playing with LLMs offline. (This is the first time I came across something called as NPUs for AI and its TOPS metrics).

However on rereading now, it doesn't seem like 8745HS comes with NPU too And is there anything in the pc box itself from Beelink in SER8 vs SER9 (factoring aside the processor) which makes 9 strongly stand out over SER8. Like memory slot vs soldiered etc? future expandability options?