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.
Standing screen display size | 4 Inches |
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Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
Max Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 pixels |
Processor | 2.8 GHz intel_core_i7_1165g7 |
RAM | 32 GB DDR4 |
Memory Speed | 3200 MHz |
Hard Drive | 1024 GB SSD |
Graphics Coprocessor | Intel Iris Xe Graphics |
Chipset Brand | Intel |
Card Description | Integrated |
Graphics Card Ram Size | 32 GB |
Wireless Type | 5 GHz Radio Frequency, 2.4 GHz Radio Frequency |
Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 4 |