• Cort@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why do YOU need it? No clue. But I can see people without technical know-how using these as a little home theater PC. Or really anyone wanting a smaller form factor. I’ve had friends and relatives get nucs because they want something really small form factor and don’t care about the upgradability cause they’d just buy a newer model 4-5 years down the line.

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      4 months ago

      Sure, I bought a NUC with a little integrated AMD GPU, which is more than enough for HTPC transcode duties.

      It cost less than half this thing.

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        4 months ago

        The customer is always right in matters of taste.

        I’ve had a couple relatives/friends recognize upgradability was a higher priority a couple years later, but others are still using them or since changed to something less powerful. I think I still have a relative running one of the weird Intel nucs with AMD graphics.