The Intel NUCs are great. I'm currently writing this on a Serpent Canyon, which is a 14 core 12th Gen Alder Lake platform with one of their discrete Arc cards o

The Intel NUCs are great. I'm currently writing this on a Serpent Canyon, which is a 14 core 12th Gen Alder Lake platform with one of their discrete Arc cards on board. It's super compact for the specs it has; fits in my backpack with my Samsung tablet which I use as a display when I go travelling. I'm a big size/performance nerd, and this has the grunt to do some gaming and development locally. Anything requiring a bit more oomf I just use a cloud instance for anyway. All I need is a power and Thunderbolt cable. Any issues I've run into have been GPU related, with it being 1st Gen hardware, but nothing insurmountable so far. This is it: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231480/intel-nuc-12-enthusiast-mini-pc-nuc12snki72va/specifications.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/231480/... They started making NUCs to push their client customers to make more competitive products with their hardware, so the Intel marketing line goes. I guess if anyone is going to push the envelope, it would be the guys and girls who make the chips that drive them.