The Beelink ME Pro, a compact box that splits the difference between mini PC and home NAS, is gaining a handful of meaningfully faster processor options. Beelink has announced that the storage-focused system will soon ship with Intel Core i5-13420H, AMD Ryzen 7 H 255, or AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 silicon, a significant jump from the low-power Intel N95 and N150 chips that have anchored the lineup since launch.
The headline option is the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, a Strix Point part with a 12-core, 24-thread CPU, 16-core RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics, and a 50 TOPS NPU. That kind of horsepower in a NAS chassis opens the door to running local AI inference, Linux containers, virtual machines, and media transcoding workloads on the same box hosting your bulk storage. The Ryzen 7 H 255 is a more conventional Hawk Point octa-core, while the Core i5-13420H is a 13th-gen Raptor Lake part that still substantially outpaces the Alder Lake-N/Twin Lake chips it replaces.
What sets the ME Pro apart from typical small-form-factor builds is its modular mainboard, which sits on a removable tray inside the chassis. In theory that opens the door to swapping processors years from now without replacing the storage cage, fans, or power supply, though Beelink hasn't committed to selling bare mainboards as upgrade kits. The company is also using paint as a CPU decoder ring: Intel models ship in navy blue, AMD in black, and a future Arm variant in white, though no Arm SoC has been named yet.
Both chassis sizes carry the same I/O loadout: one 10 Gigabit Ethernet port, one 2.5 GbE port, HDMI, a 10 Gbps USB-C port with DisplayPort alt mode, a 10 Gbps USB-A port, two USB 2.0 ports, and a 3.5mm audio jack. Storage tops out at two M.2 2280 NVMe slots plus either two or four 3.5-inch hard drive bays. The 2-bay model measures 121 x 112 x 165 mm (4.8 x 4.4 x 6.4 inches) while the 4-bay model grows to 166 x 146 x 166 mm (6.5 x 5.7 x 6.5 inches). Current Intel boards use soldered LPDDR5-4800 memory, and Beelink hasn't confirmed whether the new mainboards will move to user-replaceable SO-DIMMs.
Pricing and release dates for the new configurations remain unannounced. The existing N95 model starts at $379 (€349) with 12GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, before any hard drives are added.
