Intel NUC 11 ATKC4 Mini PC (8GB+256GB)

likes/dislikeslikes first......1. price is unbeatable £199.992. nice specs, 8gb ram and 256gb hard drive. whats not to like here?3. uses very little power so cheap on the electric bill4. comes with windows 11 pro which is great if you use windows but im a linux guy so pop os it is :-)linux is easy to install if you want. just turn of secure boot in bios and boot of a usb stick to install alinux distro. ubuntu works 100% too.5. runs very quiet. there is a fan in it but very hard to hear going.6. great build quality. bit of weight to it.dislikes...1. none. honestly. its great value for money. perfect for office/youtube/light gaming :-)

I bought this to replace my ancient HP Microserver that ran Plex Media Server and other bit and pieces. The old war horse suffered static shock during a lightening storm and refused to boot. My data is already safe in an external USB 3 JBOD, so I didn't need something as big as the Microserver to replace it. And if the HP machine was micro, this NUC 11 is nano...or indeed femto!. It is a very diddy indeed!So, once I stopped admiring the pretty little device, I wired it up, wiped the installed Microsoft Windows OS, installed Ubuntu Linux 22.04 Server in a matter of minutes and then reinstalled Plex. After the usual time-honoured Linux tradition of fiddling with settings, I got Intel QuickSync support working.What does this mean? It means hardware transcoding. It gives the ability to re-encode movie files for various devices on the fly, without straining the main processor cores. The old server had a chunky NVIDIA add-in PCI Express card for these duties...but this little beauty does it right on the 11th generation "Jasper Lake" Intel Celeron N5105 CPU!No hulking metal case, no big whirring fans, no spinning rust, no power-hungry dedicated GPU. Just a cute little black box seamlessly transcoding 4K videos in real-time! Awesome!

This is a very simple to use mini PC, which I use for controlling my home entertainment system. If I was going to criticise, it is that the connectivity is a bit limited, but with expanders it works well. It is small and neat ; the on/off button is not very positive, but I manage very well. It serves my purpose very well

I was sceptical at first but thought I would give it a try as my old desktop tower was struggling (I could literally do a word puzzle while it booted).This little power pack of a PC surpassed all expectations! Out of the box and up and running in less time that it took my old tower to boot. I haven't timed it yet but from switch on to loading Chrome and connecting to the internet... I'd say less than a minute easily.Programmes and documents open lightning fast. I don't do gaming really which is why I gave it 4 stars for that feature, though I imagine it will be more than adequate for basic gaming.An amazing little piece of kit

Installed Fedora Linux on it. Works a treat. Came with Windows Pro if you want that.

Using it as home server, has enough performance for the job. Simple to set up as Windows was preinstalled, can't fault it. For the price it's a good value

I wanted a raspberry pi initially but since they're so hard to find I went for this NUC. Works great for plex (though I don't need transcoding) and is quiet enough that I don't hear it. Perfect for my home as a NAS too. Really no complaints for the price.

have been testing this mini pc out for a while now but for some reason it keeps rebooting after a few hours blue screen apears breifly could never catch what it says but something about system developed a fault and had to restart. if it keeps doing it it will be returned