So, what's the place for a fanless, low powered mini pc? I use an Intel NUC with Linux (NUC8i5BEH) for daily work on Linux. Reasons I like it: - Nearly all-In

So, what's the place for a fanless, low powered mini pc? I use an Intel NUC with Linux (NUC8i5BEH) for daily work on Linux. Reasons I like it: - Nearly all-Intel hardware, so very good Linux support. - Easier to upgrade (3.5" SATA, M.2 NVMe, RAM) than many laptops. (Of course, there are laptops that are also easily upgradeable.) - Since the firmware is also Intel, probably gets firmware updates for longer than many mainboards. - Affordable. IIRC it was somewhere between 300-400 Euro a year ago, but same CPU/GPU as the 2000 Euro MacBook Pro 13" 2018 (which still makes it faster than the current crop of 8th generation MacBook Pro 13" 2020). - Not very noisy under load. Probably noisy for a NUC, but definitely very quiet compared to the Dell workstation I had before. Downsides: - No space for another GPU. Though, it has TB3, so an eGPU would be an option. - Not as extensible as a tower. --- Day to day activities can be proficiently carried out through laptops For me there is no laptop outside a MacBook (or possibly Windows, but I have never really used Windows). I use a laptop when I am on the go (work, conferences). I do not want to fiddle with drivers, bad battery life, bad noise reduction, xrandr, or whatever when I am on the go. It just has to work. However, powerful MacBooks are quite expensive and I do not want to carry around a 2500 Euro machine on a trip. So, I am doing my daily work on a MacBook Air and on the Intel NUC (plus remote work GPU servers).