I felt that expensive is subjective in this context. It is expensive as a full kit NUC, yes. However, barebone NUC is cheaper and I see a few of them are in $30

I felt that expensive is subjective in this context. It is expensive as a full kit NUC, yes. However, barebone NUC is cheaper and I see a few of them are in $300 range with various of i3 and i5. I seen a very cheap $200 range barebone NUC last month, however it use low end cpu, i3 or Celeron.