Beelink A1 TV Box

A good thing in a small package? “Witchcraft!” screams Desire Athrow, before calming down and having a nice cuppa once he knows it has Netflix.

- Desire Athrow

The Beelink A1 is sold as a TV box, as the name indicates, but is just as useful – if not more – as a thin client, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses that may want to move away from “other” more expensive and complicated options.

The A1 is absolutely tiny and will comfortably sit in an adult hand. Its dimensions (77x77x17mm) will enable you to tuck it away almost anywhere, but the lack of a VESA mount means that you won’t be able to fix it securely to the back of a monitor.

Bearing in mind that this is a sub£70 box, we were surprised to find that it had 4GB of RAM (albeit DDR3) installed in its miniscule case. This is something that will definitely be helpful for future versions of Android, or if you intend to use it to run more memory hungry applications.