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Maybe it was coming either way but switching to the less efficient discrete Arc gpu away from Nvidia really killed the NUC midrange "Enthusiast" models. The Arc version, debuting with Serpent canyon, looked horrible chonky compared to the impressively slim "ghost canyon" NUC11PHKi7C with the RTX 2060.Then on the low end models known as "Pro", these were announced months ago but were very slow to release and must have been absolutely slaughtered by minisforum and other chinese boards with radeon 680m. It took forever for the Wall Street Canyon barebones models to pop up, and then they finally launched were very expensive like $600 which just didn't compete.Intel NUC had a monopoly on thunderbolt in the mini pc form factor for quite a while which gave it some utility, but that is also gone with AMD adding USB4 on all mobile soc, so one less reason to go Intel.I still think there is a place for the NUC if they would focus on barebones low power models where they can offer a cost effective solution with superior reliability.
Maybe it was coming either way but switching to the less efficient discrete Arc gpu away from Nvidia really killed the NUC midrange "Enthusiast" models. The Arc version, debuting with Serpent canyon, looked horrible chonky compared to the impressively slim "ghost canyon" NUC11PHKi7C with the RTX 2060.
Then on the low end models known as "Pro", these were announced months ago but were very slow to release and must have been absolutely slaughtered by minisforum and other chinese boards with radeon 680m. It took forever for the Wall Street Canyon barebones models to pop up, and then they finally launched were very expensive like $600 which just didn't compete.
Intel NUC had a monopoly on thunderbolt in the mini pc form factor for quite a while which gave it some utility, but that is also gone with AMD adding USB4 on all mobile soc, so one less reason to go Intel.
I still think there is a place for the NUC if they would focus on barebones low power models where they can offer a cost effective solution with superior reliability.
