Intel NUC Bean Canyon NUC8i5BEK2
Intel Core i5-8259U
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Pros
Cons
16 reviews
Small and fine
Pro
- Absolutely not inferior to a large PC!
Everything is great!
Assembled in a flash, Ubuntu loaded and everything runs like clockwork
Pro
- Compact
- Quiet
- Quick
The smallest and best PC I have ever had.
If you don't mind putting in the SSD and RAM yourself and installing Windows, you have a great PC without bloatware at a great price and you can install a reasonably sized SSD.
Despite the Thunderbolt 3 hype, the thing also has HDMI, USB-A and jack sockets so that you can connect a screen, keyboard, mouse, headphones ... without an adapter.Pro
- Tiny, fast, expandable
- many connections
Contra
- Not the right device for gamers
Sandwich sized beast.
This little machine is a beast with 4 cores, 8 threads all fitted in the same a size as an English sandwich with lots of cheese and ham. I installed 16GB of DDR4 and the new Samsung NVMe 500GB SDD and it's impressive. Built it in 10 minutes and installed Windows 10 Pro without any issues. I am using it for a course in Linux and runs two virtual Redhat linux servers without any issues. Amazing piece of equipment. The only problem is the fan noise which is quite high pitched, but you get used to it.
Pro
- Build quality
- Easy to build
- Unbelievable power in such a small form factor
- Thunderbolt port, eGPU can be added if needed
- Great for productivity
- It is able to handle anything I threw at it.
Contra
- The fan noise can be quite high pitched
- NOT FOR GAMING (if no eGPU)
DOA
Love NUCs and have several others. This is the second of 6 that had to be replaced straight away. No HDMI output on both occasions.
Pro
- Small and powerful
Contra
- Quality control from the factory
6 out of 16 reviews
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