> While the new Core line has modest improvements in productivity, Intel hopes battery life gains will encourage users to buy new devices, said Karen Regis, dir

> While the new Core line has modest improvements in productivity, Intel hopes battery life gains will encourage users to buy new devices, said Karen Regis, director of notebook roadmap and strategy for Intel's PC Client Group. It says right in the article that it doesn't have major improvements in performance (like all of its chips since SNB), so why would it matter that you have Broadwell in a NUC? Intel is focusing on reducing power with all of its new generations for the most part, and is only slightly increasing GPU performance with each new generation (20 percent or so, for the same class of chips).