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I really wanted a Hades Canyon refresh in that form factor. But the naming really explains the problem; every generation of enthusiast-NUC was a totally different form factor design. Intel never settled on one, hence enthusiast-NUC never really had a brand identity. A Mac Mini you know exactly what it is, whether you like the thing and the ecosystem or not. Other PC makers selling mini-PCs really had the same problem althought the standard NUC was pretty much fixed in its case-packaging; I have a Ryzen-powered Lenovo 720-series minipc still in service (in spite of being abandonware WRT WIndows) in the family.Intel finally standardized into the "NUC Compute Element" brain board for the enthusiast NUC...and basically every single reviewer and consumer interested in it....thought it was neat and said "When are they going to abandon this one, too?". And, predictably, Compute Element had like 2x generations of hardware and was then killed.
I really wanted a Hades Canyon refresh in that form factor. But the naming really explains the problem; every generation of enthusiast-NUC was a totally different form factor design. Intel never settled on one, hence enthusiast-NUC never really had a brand identity. A Mac Mini you know exactly what it is, whether you like the thing and the ecosystem or not. Other PC makers selling mini-PCs really had the same problem althought the standard NUC was pretty much fixed in its case-packaging; I have a Ryzen-powered Lenovo 720-series minipc still in service (in spite of being abandonware WRT WIndows) in the family.
Intel finally standardized into the "NUC Compute Element" brain board for the enthusiast NUC...and basically every single reviewer and consumer interested in it....thought it was neat and said "When are they going to abandon this one, too?". And, predictably, Compute Element had like 2x generations of hardware and was then killed.
