Earlier this week, Intel sent us its latest variation of its growing line of NUC mini PCs. This is Intel’s first NUC to ship with one of its top-end Core i7 chips inside—it’s not the fastest desktop like this you can buy (that’s probably still Gigabyte’s quad-core Haswell Brix Pro), but it’s the fastest one you can get with Intel’s solid driver support and three-year warranty. If you read our review of the Core i5 Broadwell NUC, you already know a lot of what there is to know about this box. The primary difference is the faster CPU and GPU and an extra $100 or so—Intel says the street price should be around $500, compared to the $400-ish that the i5 version costs. We took the newest NUC and ran it through our standard tests to get an idea of how it stacks up. If you spend the extra money, here’s what you get. Read 17 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Mini-review: Intel’s powered-up Core i7 Broadwell mini PC
