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I've really wanted to get my hands on a NUC for a while so jumped at the opportunity to review this. NUC's are basically laptop grade hardware in a tiny desktop box. And, that's the performance level I've been seeing.When I first plugged it in it booted up into Windows 11. Performance wasn't too snappy, but Windows did load fairly quickly and I was able to set it up and test out some common activities like word processing, browsing the web, watching some videos. It worked quite fine for those tasks.But, I really wanted to see how this box would perform with Linux on it. So I currently have the Fedora Cinnamon Spin installed on this and the performance is faster than it was with Windows. I have it on a KVM with my work laptop so I can swap over to it and tinker away. I'm able to launch IntelliJ and do some programming on it without issue. And, again activities like web browsing, document editing, etc... are all decently performative on this box.There are plenty of ports on this device. The front panel has a couple of USB ports, audio in, audio out, plus a header connector (more about that later.) The back panel has four more USB ports, HDMI, Display Port, network, and power.That header port on the front is so that if you wanted to place this device inside a larger enclosure that you could connect a remote power button (and other options). It's covered by a little rubber plug that can easily come off. But, if you leave this machine on your desk you won't need to fuss with either the plug or the connectors it covers.Internally this uses m.2 for storage and SO DIMMs for memory. If you want to expand either Intel has pretty good documentation for modules that they have validated with different models of NUCs. This particular unit appears to be able handle up to 32gb of RAM. The 8gb pre-installed will likely be more than enough if you plan to use this for basic web browsing, documents, etc...Because I have two computers hooked up to the same speakers I cannot use HDMI to route the sound or I will lose sound from one or the other machine when I toggle my KVM. Instead I have to plug my speakers 2nd source into the audio jack on the front of this machine. I was rather annoyed with the way that looked at first but just got a right angle 3.5mm extension and that cleaned up the appearance quite a bit.As a tiny desktop computer I really like it. It won't replace my big desktop machine for all my needs. But, it is more than capable enough for most daily computing needs.

I specifically bought a USB 3.2 Gen 2 cable and SSD to test the claim of this computer that it has "USB 3.2 Gen 2" and tried every USB port of it, and the fastest I measured was 435 MB/s. That's the tenth of one of two lanes in the USB 3.2 Gen 2 specification. The best it's got is USB 3.0. So, it seems.These USB versions and speeds could be more transparent in their specifications. Another desktop I have uses USB 3.1 port, and using the same cable and SSD, writing 10-GB data took minutes, whereas the same procedure took seconds with this computer. Specifications for different USBs use phrases like "up to," making it blurry about the speed differences between USB ports and computers—overlap.Let me lay out the facts as I have measured using this machine:1,024,000,000 bytes took 2.29 seconds between SSD in this machine and an external SSD.10,250,000,000 bytes took 23.42 seconds for the same transfer as described above.These are very impressive speeds.

I love min PCs for use as home servers or just a lower power internet browsing machine. They're small, they don't take up tons of space, and they are more energy efficient than my custom desktop. I've only ever had off brands until I got this Intel NUC and wow, Intel has a winner on its hands.This mini PC is quiet - as in the fan curve makes sense, keeps the PC cool, and doesn't go in bursts like some of my other mini PCs. It's way nicer to use because of that. If you're a BIOS tinkerer, this has a custom BIOS with mouse support that looks like something you'd get on a high end motherboard. Incredibly nice and way easier to use than the bog standard blue and grey BIOS. If you're a hardware tinkerer this has a lot to like. The front panel has motehrboard pins which would make connecting a remote KVM to this incredibly easy. The bottom panel is all metal and has captive screws so it is way easier to put on and off. The included RAM and SSD are name brand instead of a generic or knock off.There are a few downsides. I was hoping this would use an Intel NIC for ethernet but it doesn't. The WiFi is Intel but only WiFi 5 (or AC) and not the newer WiFi 6 (or AX). And it bears repeating that this doesn't have a USB C port.Performance is what you would expect from a Celeron - way better suited to light desktop or server use than being a daily driver. You can make it work as a daily driver but it's not a speedy machine by any means. I installed Ubuntu Server on mine and it works flawlessly for my home server. It's plenty fast for what I want it to do and it's low power too.

This mini PC is very compact, has a highly responsive processor, NVME SSD, six USB ports (4 USB 3.2), HDMI, Display Port and exceeds my expectations. The 64-bit 4-core Intel Celeron is quite capable supporting SSE4.2 vector instructions and only requires 10 watts TDP; there is an internal fan but it's very quiet. With a watt meter, I determined 15W usage during CPU benchmark tests and less than six watts during idle periods; this is outstanding energy efficiency for a Win11 desktop PC! The 10nm Celeron N5105 benchmarked 25% better than a similar mini PC using a 14nm J4125 processor instead.The 8GB of ram supplies enough to handle any online tasks plus most internally installed applications. I successfully edited video footage but was probably pushing the limit of what you'd expect and still get decent response time. I also connected a couple monitors without issue. Online video streaming via several subscription services functioned as expected so there were no issues encountered and super important if you're planning to do any media serving through this unit. Both the Wifi and Bluetooth worked fine with my devices. I really love the ability to easily expand the internal ram since there are two DDR4 slots. There are also two M.2 slots but they're both occupied (i.e. 42mm wireless, 80mm SSD). I'm truly happy with this product and recommend it.