Geekplus Intel NUC 11 with 11th Gen Core i7-1165G7 Processor, Intel Nuc 11i7 Quad-Core 32GB DDR4 RAM & 1TB NVMe SSD Versatile NUC with WiFi, Bluetooth, 8K Support - Built-in Windows 11 Pro

Used for home office functions. Great machine, fast and silent. It had been a while since I bought a new computer. The transfer of programs and data was incredibly fast and easy. Even Widows 11 works very well for me.

The small form factor made it ideal for powering our multimedia smart TV display monitors.

Small package gives me some desk space. Dual booting went very well. Performs very well. The Intel banner before booting begins is on too long. I haveto look to shorten it.

Bought this to stream GeForce NOW at 4K 120Hz to my TV and it works great.

I've been a fan of mini-pcs for some time. I currently have a couple of Gigabyte Brix machines running dlna and Minecraft servers (altho my kids don't really use the latter much anymore). With this latest purchase of the NUC11, I now have one NUC8 w/ 8th generation i5 cpu and two NUC11s with the 11th generation i5. We use the NUC8 and one of the NUC11s at home for general home office tasks as well as playing Minecraft and a couple of Steam games (nothing very taxing for the hardware). One of my kids has the other NUC11 at school.My impressions of the NUC11 are overall very good. It appears to be well-built with what seems to be decent quality RAM and system disk. There is a 3 yr warranty. I was somewhat disappointed to realize there isn't a built-in mic like my NUC8 has, but that's not a big deal. There is an adequate selection of ports. In terms of performance, the NUC11 is clearly faster than the NUC8, both of which are adequately fast for our use. The NUC11 scored 1963/6431 on the Geekbench 6 benchmark.I'll point out that I have no particular use for Windows so all of my experience with the NUCs has been on linux. I've been very happy running linux on the NUC11. All my NUCs (as well as the Brixes mentioned above) are running Ubuntu 22.04.3. I'll note that the NUC8 has been upgraded from an initial install of 18.04, w/o any issues. The NUC11 my kid uses at school is a dual boot setup, but my kid says the Windows portion doesn't really get used, so I can't say much about either using Windows on the NUC11 or about any potential problems with running a dual-boot configuration on this hardware and with this pair of OSes. My kid reports that there are no issues running Ubuntu after using it for the last 10 months.