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[-] Cort@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month 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.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

So they want to pay double the price for something with half the utility?

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month 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.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -1 points 1 month ago

That's true. I've lost count of how many morons tell me "oh my 2 year old MacBook broke and Apple refused to repair it so I bought a new one!"

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