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Yes, I will wait for these fixes. When Win7 support stops (2020?) I
want to have a compact Linux box ready. Maybe the price will drop
later as well.
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If you want to go afer a low foot print (or even mount it behind your monitor in a VESA mount) and don't mind that they're pricier, than comparably powerful less-compact hardawre, go for one! I had one a while ago as a HTPC and should I ever need a HTPC again, a NUC would be my first choice.
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I have used an NUC as my main development machine for 2 years now and its fine. It has 3.1ghz i3, 8gb ram and 240gb SSD. I use 2 1920x1080 monitors with no problem.
I run Windows Server 2008 R2 and have never had any hardware issues apart from it wanting to reboot when you shutdown, but that went away and never came back. I expect it was patched.
I run 3 copies of VS2015/VS2017, multiple tabs of Firefox, Chrome, SSMS and 4 flavours of Sql Server without issue. In fact the only thing that makes it get out of breath is Umbraco, or Episerver.
I wanted something i could take to the office that was very small and robust and its fine. Not only that but it only uses 20-25w of power. For games i have my games machine. For vmware instances i have my vmware server (an old dell workstation with scsi disks).
I think the NUC is great.
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Would the hardware requirements for primary Facebook site usage be higher or lower than general "internet" usage?
Conversely, if internet usage but avoidance of facebook, would a lower spec machine suffice?
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I quite like the idea that NUCs can be mounted on the VESA mounts on the back of your monitor. That's kind of cool.
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We use three NUCs NUC6i5SYK for software development, Windows 10, Visual Studio.
Of course the NUCs have fans. Once I had to clean a fan (it was full of dust).
Samsung 8GB DDR4 PC4-17000 (or 16GB)
Samsung SM951 128GB (or 256GB)
BenQ GL2450HM
Video card completely sufficient.
They are incredibly quiet and they use practically no power.
Plus great customer support. One NUC had a hardware problem and was immediately replaced at no cost.
We are absolutely satisfied with NUCs and can only recommend them.
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I'm a bit late to the party for this thread, but I bought a Celeron semi-DIY NUC (BOXNUC6CAYH) some time ago and I have to say that they're pretty capable machines if you go into it with the right mindset. The specific one I'm using is currently ~$125 but I bought mine when it was $149; the total cost ended up being somewhere around $300 for 2 sticks of 4gb DDR3 RAM and a 2.5" 7200rpm hard drive, up that total cost to somewhere around $410 because I bought an external HDD to supplement it a week or two in. I can't say anything else without repeating what others have already said (USB 3.0, SD Card reader, M.2 SSD support, etc), but I've been putting it through its paces as a media server and so far I haven't been disappointed but with caveats:
- I'm not streaming anything above 1080p
- I'm using Plex as an intermediary media service right now
- The screens I've used it with have had max resolutions of 1920x1080, not trying to run 4k
- I'm not putting it through its paces with things like MadVR
I recommend it if you know that you have a proper use case for it and don't overestimate what a passively cooled CPU - specifically Celeron if you decide to get the BOXNUC6CAYH I did - can do. I actually messed around with running older games on it (Stronghold, Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, Quake 1, UT99) and was convinced enough by the performance that a friend and I have been considering making a group investment in a few NUCs (most likely i3s instead of the Celeron boxes) and gear if we want to have a decently-sized LAN night with our other friends without much hassle.
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I installed one in a conference room for a video conferencing solution about 3 years ago, and it's still working great. I had to buy RAM and an SSD separately, but Amazon offers a lot of packages that include them. It also doesn't come with an OS, so budget that separately if you're planning on running Windows on it. The internal video has been fine for playing 1080p video as well as video conferencing using GoToMeeting and Zoom with a 1080p camera. Dell Optiplex also has a micro form factor. It's a little bigger than the NUC, but has more USB ports, full size HDMI, and comes with RAM, SSD, and an OS.
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Bought several, very happy with them.
Wife got an Intel BOXNUC7I3BNH NUC Kit as her main PC for watching movies/TV and general Internet browsing, she loves it, super silent, more than fast enough, super tiny.
Small 240 GB internal main SSD and external USB 3.0 4TB HDD in a nice looking case. Windows 10.
I use two, one (Quad core Celeron, 6th gen) with Ubuntu 17.xx for misc things and one other as my main PC as well for movie/TV watching and Internet browsing, Win 10. Had an 8Core AMD before, not missing it speed wise, lots of room and power saved, as the 8Core was probably mostly bored out of its skull.
Build quality of the NUCs is out of this world.
I wish there were comparable devices (same quality, mind) with AMD processors, though.
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I picked up an i5 NUC and webcam for the office on my own dime. It was one of the kits that you add your own storage and RAM to.
At work we were doing Hangouts for remote employees and it was a weird dance with crowding around whoever got their laptop open first. The NUC is in a more central area and does Google Hangouts just fine.
It is running Fedora Linux 27 and it works great. Besides a video conferencing machine, it makes a very decent workstation for anyone who forgot or broke a laptop or for visitors.
Like some of the other commentators, we do our heavy computing on virtual machines either in our colo rack or on Amazon EC2. The NUC has plenty of power to run Vim, Emacs, or for some people Atom or VS Code. In fact, with 16 GB RAM and a Samsung 850 EVO M.2, it feels more responsive than some people's laptops.
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I bought a NUC as a portable development machine, so went with an i7. Yes they do have fans, and can be a bit noisy when under load. Yes, they're a bit more expensive than an equivalent specced tower, but you can easily throw them in a suitcase to take with you. I use a crossover ethernet cable and a laptop to use it when monitor/keyboard are not available. After about 4 months of using the NUC, I decomissioned my old desktop and haven't looked back.
The only real negative is a bug in the firmware. Sometimes the NUC fails to boot. The solution is to dismantle it and remove the battery to reset the BIOS. So I carry a set of small screwdrivers with me (in the hold luggage!). In fact, my first NUC went through a period of not booting at all for several days just before a trip, so I bought a second one. When I returned from my trip, the first NUC booted, so I ended up turning it into a Hackintosh. Sadly, it looks like it has done the same thing again - it remains to be seen whether it recovers. Still, NUC2 is going strong.
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Anyone else feel like that's the date today?
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Nope.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The month dragging on too long for you? or is the number 64 magical for some reason? 
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I thought we all agreed that magic numbers are baaaaad?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Magic strings are bad, but I didn't know that magical, all powerful numbers, are bad too. 
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It feels like it's been January forever. From next month I will start moaning about how quick the year is going. Then in summer I will moan about t being too hot.
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Pom Pey wrote: From next month I will start moaning about how quick the year is going. Then in summer I will moan about t being too hot.
So you are a perpetual complainer? You might consider getting a smaller glass.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Don't tell me - Feb 1st is your eleventy-eleventh birthday, and you just can't wait!
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Ah. You've seen his feet then?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Heck, 31'st already. It's gone so fast, figured I had a couple more weeks.
the young always think time moves so slow, whereas the old wise feel it goes by way too fast.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Just shy of 32
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Here's a very nice summary of how Optimistic Concurrency works on database updates and information on how it compares to Pessimistic concurrency.
Optimistic Concurrency | Microsoft Docs[^]
I was searching for a solution related to this and didn't know what it was called and stumbled into this and then it helped me solve the challenge I was confronting.
A good, informative read that all devs should know about.
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Optimistic concurrency is filth.
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