News Intel teases Broadwell NUCs ahead of launch

Yum! NUC and M2 seems like a marriage made in heaven - NUCs are already pretty tiny, but I can foresee potential for even smaller cases if M2s are used in place of 2.5" SSDs... I shall be watching out for these.

 

If only they did one with dual NICs then it would make a brilliant little silent firewall.

 

You realize by default NUC had mSATA drives, right ? And the version with 2.5" exists only in the Haswell generation, and they were released months after the original version.

 

Ah, I see - thanks for clearing that up. For some reason I was looking at the Haswell versions and assuming that they were the same as the previous generation.

 

WYK are without 2.5" drive. WYKH are with 2.5" drive.

 

Use a USB to Ethernet adapter

 

M.2 is a natural step for NUCs. an i3 or i5 with m.2 drive should do well behinds monitors in offices.

 

Thanks, that's genuinely useful. NUCs suffer from one of the worst naming conventions I've ever seen (it's terrible even by Intel's standards )

 

While its definitely nice to see powerful technology in such small spaces like this, it is a little sad to see how devices like these are basically the beginning of the end of enthusiast PCs. It will be a long time until full-blown desktop gaming or workstation PCs go away completely, but in a few years I expect the average PC will be small like these.