THE CONCEPT BEHIND Intel's NUCs is pretty straightforward: take an ultrabook, lop off the screen, keyboard, and touchpad, and then cram the remaining parts into the smallest desktop enclosure possible.
The original Next Unit of Computing launched in late 2012, delivering ultrabook-class performance inside of a 4" x 4" x 2" chassis. The following year, according to Intel, shipments of NUCs and NUC-based systems surged from zero to a million units. It's no wonder. NUCs are small and affordable, and much like ultrabooks, they're powerful enough to run pretty much anything but graphically intensive games and heavy-duty workstation apps. A NUC may be the only desktop PC most people ever need—and that holds especially true in corporate environments.
Intel has been refining the NUC design and freshening up the internals every year since 2012. This year, the chipmaker has wasted no time. Barely more than a month after launching its latest family of ultrabook-bound processors, code-named Broadwell-U, Intel has sent us a new NUC with a Broadwell-U processor inside. The system is due out later this quarter, and its price tag is expected to be around the $399 mark.
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