By Darren Allan
If you want a mini-PC, then obviously you have to make sacrifices in terms of power to get that compact form factor. But those sacrifices are gradually becoming less painful to bear, and Intel has taken another major step in this respect with its latest NUC.
The new ‘Skull Canyon’ NUC is admittedly bigger in stature than previous offerings from Intel, but you’re effectively getting a low-end gaming PC crammed into the 8.5 x 4.6 x 0.9-inch enclosure.
The engine is a Core i7-6770HQ processor running at 2.6GHz (featuring Turbo to 3.5 GHz) with Iris Pro 580 graphics, and there’s room for up to 32GB of RAM, along with two M.2 slots so you can fit a pair of SSDs inside, no less.
Connectivity is impressive too, and you get four USB 3.0 ports, along with a Thunderbolt 3 port, full-size HDMI 2.0 and a mini DisplayPort 1.2. There’s also an SD card slot and an Ethernet port, plus on the wireless front the NUC offers 802.11ac Wi-Fi along with Bluetooth 4.2.
There’s also a rather nifty looking skull logo on the outer casing – and a plain black lid with no logo that you can replace it with if you think the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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