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Intel NUCs are available as Kits(Barebones), Boards(Mainbaord only) and as perconfigured Mini-PCs.

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Low TDPs

The Atom based Celeron and Pentium NUCs have a very low TDP of 10 or 15W.

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Intel based GPU

Almost any OS has support for the intel i9xx based GPUs.

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x86/amd64-based

Plenty of Operating Systems to choose.

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HDMI-CEC

6th gen+ models have CEC support.

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Intel is a bitch

For an M2-port, HDR, better GPU power or more RAM support Intel wants you to buy the much higher priced iX-based models even if HDR would be possible on Atom GPU's.

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I recently bought one with an pentium j5005 as desktop replacement. Its a really nice machine measuring only about 110x110x50mm and comes with: an x86 processor, builtin wifi/bluetooth, SATA, HDMI with CEC support, sdcard reader and a TDP of 10W. For me that is superior to any RaspberryPI based solution.
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