Things a PC should be better than a laptop at: 1. Graphics power 2. CPU power 3. RAM 4. Size (smaller) 5. Any/all of the above (Storage wasn't included in

Things a PC should be better than a laptop at: 1. Graphics power 2. CPU power 3. RAM 4. Size (smaller) 5. Any/all of the above (Storage wasn't included in that list as who hasn't already externalised all storage?) I'm seriously considering not buying another laptop and instead purchasing an Intel NUC. I've got to that point where owning a laptop has led me to have a NAS, a decent DAC and stereo, a big panel for viewing films... aside from web browsing it feels like the things I do on my laptop are not in the laptop's sweet spot (gaming, graphics, video editing, encoding, compiling, spinning up VMs and dockers, etc). Then I look at my full-size keyboard, my external display that is better than the laptop display and I wonder why I have a laptop. A machine that is compromised in every way to make it portable when I barely take it anywhere (and always will have a work laptop I do work trips with, and a smartphone for recreation trips). I'd rather a tiny, but powerful, silent PC. I view my primary PC (the laptop presently) as disposable... because I've externalised storage, display, audio... I feel I just want a small powerful generalised computing machine. Nothing more. PS: If anyone can recommend something not far from the NUC in size, but with higher CPU + RAM capabilities, and potentially that looks aesthetically pleasing then I'm all ears. PPS: Not the Mac Mini, it's ugly, has a large footprint, tops out at 16GB (costs a lot to get there) and all of the ports seem very outdated. More towards a Mac Pro in CPU and RAM, but with a lower price tag and can run Linux (or whatever) without sulking. The NUC for me would be a cheap stop-gap until something like this emerges.