Intel NUC Mini PC 12th Gen Core i5-1240P 32GB DDR4 RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD, Pre-in Windows 11 Pro Gaming Desktop Computer, HIDM 2.0, USB 3.2, WiFi 6, Thunderbolt 4, black, Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P

Definitivamente esta PC no es Gamer y yo tampoco lo soy pero buscaba una PC que fuera rápida y compacta por que no tengo mucho espacio, por años utilizaba una laptop pero a pesar de que era muy buena, era incómodo, esta NUC es perfecta para lo que necesito, programas de oficina, sketchup y autocad La única "desventaja" que podría tener es la capacidad de almacenamiento pero es relativo ya que si necesitas más puedes tener Disco externo u otras muchas opciones

Ok, I'm not a gamer (anymore) and only do web surfing, email, 'Office products'... I had a massive 'I Buy Power' gaming workstation under my desk for many a year (think it's on 8 years now) and the poor desk started to fall apart (those 'quick locks' just break after so many moves) and with a desk replacement I started thinking I don't need something sitting on the floor taking up space... The Intel NUC Mini PC appears to be the answer! It's got 32GB of RAM (same as my old workstation) and processing power is a few years ahead of the old system. Graphics power "probably" could be better IF I was doing graphics or gaming but I'm not and didn't use 70% of the old workstation graphics abilities. PRO: 1) Cost, it's much cheaper than many systems with this power 2) Footprint, I'm going to mount this on the wall behind my wall mounted dual monitors. No more floor space (or desk space) taken up. 3) Hey, it's a computer and nowadays everything is plug n play and setup is EASY. CON (well, IF I had to come up with something): 1) Well, my old workstation had 1 TB HDD, this has 512 GB. Ok, this REALLY isn't a problem as I use Synology NAS for storage, home drive and shared drives and just really need to put stuff there instead of locally. 2) (I'm REALLY reaching here...) I originally mounted the Mini PC on the back of a monitor so it was off my desk and really cleaned up the look. Now that my monitors are on a wall mount, I had to put the Mini PC back on my desk. But just maybe I'll mount it to the wall behind a monitor? BOTTOM LINE: Overall very good for the price, performance is everything I need (web, Microsoft Office products, video's) and having the small footprint is a win no mater how you look at it. The availability of add in HDDs (and low cost) is plus, IF I ever decide I actually need more disk space. Highly suggested for someone who is NOT a gamer and wants a good computer.

WHY? I suppose that my real question to myself was "why?". I've had two tower-style PC computers with 8 years old AMD processors in them. One has 32Gb of RAM and the other has 24Gb of RAM - and they are perfectly fine for what I needed them to do - usual office apps and programming\development. I have two so that if one got problematic, I could quickly flick over to the other and continue my work. They are connected via graphics cards to 4 monitors to make my work easier. But I noticed that these SFF computers like this Intel NUC were getting more, and more powerful. I COULD BE GREENER IN A LESS NOISY OFFICE I like to leave my computers on - so that I can just get on with my work the next day. But they are noisy. And the towers are big. And I imagine that they are a bit power hungry. They both have 750W power supplies but they aren't pushed anywhere near that level. And I decided that I wasn't really using the expansion capabilities of the tower PCs and that I could have a quieter SFF PC that would still connect to 4 screens, be near silent, be more powerful and use less power. ENTER THE INTEL NUC 12 PRO 1240P Did research to find that because this is the 12th Generation of the Intel Core i5-1240, it was more powerful than the 11th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU's in most respects. So, although the Intel NUCs are a little more expensive than others like the highly regarded Geekom machines, I decided to go with the Intel NUC and the Intel i5-1240 processor. The Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P had an extra 16Gb of RAM to take me to 32Gb, and a promotion was running which reduced the price by £90, which helped to swing it for me. The total price still took it to something like £80 more than the other SFF I was looking at, but I was then able to reason that I was paying £80 more for more performance - and I pressed the Add to Basket button. REALITY The Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P is tiny. It is quiet. It's well built in an Apple Computer kind of way. And a joy to open up and work to upgrade. 4 screws later, I was inside to upgrade the standard 512Gb NVME SSD to 1TB, and installed an additional 1TB 2.5" hard disk. This PC now also has virtual PCs that run Windows Server, replacing another old server computer of mine. And all with an external 120W power supply. I've benchmarked my Intel NUC and it is about 4 times more powerful than my old tower PC. Graphics-wise, it's about the same as my old PC. The Intel NUC is rated to be able to still play many games but I'm not really into games now. OVERALL I'd highly recommend a Small Form Factor PC like this Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P. Mine is even faster and far more responsive in general use. A friend got an SFF model from Trigkey and he's also happy. So the SFF revolution has begun largely because prices have come down and expandability options have increased. Once you have chosen an SFF, you can swap out anything in the SFF except the CPU and Graphics. And I think that there's no need to buy a tower PC unless you need to house an even more powerful CPU and graphics card because perhaps you perform demanding functions like video editing or you are a gamer! Get this Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P if you want a high quality PC and you want to start off with the most powerful SFF available (for now..!)

Already needed to update the BIOS. I was checking on warrantee for peace of mind. The intel site said it was out of warrantee. I contacted amazon[which stated they would stand behind the stated warrantee], but I never did hear from the builder about the warrantee. Disconcerting.... since I re-did the BIOS it has been working ok. It still has some glitches, but I'm still learning how it operates. Fingers crossed!

I'm a real fan of these mini-PCs. OK so you don't get any of the essential peripherals - like a keyboard or mouse but you can pick these up really cheaply (I have a few knocking around anyway) and, of course, you will need a decent sized monitor to make this outfit viable - but luckily I likewise have a 27" curved monitor which was just waiting for a little outfit like this to turn up - so hurrah! It's quite a serious bit of kit with 32GB of RAM, an intel i5-1240 P Processor and a 512 GB solid state Hard drive (plus a space for another hard drive - or like me add a 4TB HD you already have via a USB slot). It also comes with Windows 11 pre-installed - which is great and allowed me to get up and running in minutes - and then I attached an external DVD drive and uploaded MS Office and was away. I will say it again it's a nice bit of kit and hums away happily doing pretty much everything you need as fast as you need. I hooked it up to the internet and browsed a few things, played music via Youtube (with some external speakers), copied lots of my Doc and xls files across no problem, played a few resource hungry games just to put it through its paces and, so far , it's working really well. Faster than my existing All-in-One Dell desktop. I can't really find any faults in it - yes the £869 price tag is a little heavy as you still need to get all these peripherals to get it up and running but then it IS a serious bit of kit. Hence the full 5 stars from me.