Next Unit of Computing or Intel NUC

Next Unit of Computing or Intel NUC

With a gap in the market left by Intel’s now-defunct NUC (Next Unit of Computing) program, PC vendors like 

Lenovo,

Asus, 

Acer

HP, and 

MSI 

are filling in with ready made solutions. 

Unlike some mini-models that use a D.I.Y approach to buying and building (User specified RAM, the boot drive and Linux), some Mini PC are is ready to use out of the box, with memory, storage with operating system already installed.

I am posting this to state that idf one drops the operating system one can buy a Mini PC cheap.

I did not know the plight of Intel when I bout the NUC.

Both are fine and I had several 2.5 inch SATA with me. 

Two were used for data only (films, photos and my book in pdf). 

I new tat new NVMe SSDs were coming with enormous capacity but to use them one has to buy the new models with motherboard supporting the connection ports.

I am glad to guys are coming out with ideas to have clumsy but externally placed eGPU, Network Storage and Data storage on external PCIe mounts and Docks. 

My only concern was electricity usage with the electricity price going up by 300% in Ceylon.

I could not afford. 

Here i am in Australia now writing books at leisure.