NUC-related Black Friday deals
PLEASE SEE THE 2017 ARTICLE INSTEAD I’ll try to list here the Black Friday deals that I’ve come across. If you find something interesting let me also know in the comments section below! Newegg...
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Coming Apollo Lake NUC: What to Expect?
We’re almost in the middle of Q4 2016, which is when Intel is expected to release the new Apollo Lake NUC. Apollo Lake is a codename for Intel’s latest low-cost CPU/GPU architecture that is...
How-to: Installing LibreELEC/Kodi on an Intel NUC
How to install LibreELEC on an Intel NUC and what are the optimal settings? I’ll walk you through! Kodi is a popular open-source media center software that can run on Windows or Linux. However,...
Security Alert: NUCs Vulnerable to SMM Exploit
Intel has released on Monday a security advisory regarding a flaw in the Intel NUC BIOS. This flaw allows a user with local administrative right to access the system management mode (SMM) and take...
First Details of Coming Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake NUCs Emerge
FanlessTech has done it again, and published partial specifications of the coming Apollo Lake and Kaby Lake NUCs. Apollo Lake NUC Apollo Lake will replace the Braswell in the lower end of Intel NUCs....
Latest BIOS Updates
I just created a separate page which gives you links to the latest BIOS versions for different NUC models. Hope you find it useful!
Skylake NUC BIOS 44 Unleashes NVME SSDs But BIOS Recovery Is Needed
Yesterday I wrote an update regarding BIOS 44 for Skylake i3 and i5 NUCs and how the recent version is supposed to unlock the NVME SSD drive performance, which has been previously limited to...
Skylake i3/i5 NUC BIOS Version 44 to Unlock NVME SSDs
Intel has released BIOS version 0044 for Skylake i3 and i5 NUCs. There are many changes mentioned in the release notes, but this seemingly innocent change is something many have been waiting for: Changed...
Skull Canyon NUC Review 3/3: Gaming and Conclusions (NUC6i7KYK)
Gaming is one use case that often comes up with this NUC. It’s not really as powerful as a full-size tower with a discrete GPU (who would have ever guessed), but it will handle...
Skull Canyon NUC Review 2/3: Benchmarks (NUC6i7KYK)
In the second part of our Skylake i7 NUC review we run some popular benchmarks on it to get an idea how does it perform compared to the other Skylake NUCs and the previous...