I am very pleased with the NUC in general and with the NUC8i7BEH version. It looks like the best of the tiny desktops to me as a non-gamer. The Micro Center price was the best I could find, and I was able to get memory and storage there quite reasonably as well. Putting it together was a breeze. I didn't need the tall case, but that was available, and the difference is hardly discernible. Who knows, I might add more storage someday if I repurpose it as a media server. The i7 version is probably overkill for the standard office apps I use, but I often have a lot of apps and browser windows open, and the price difference was nominal. I've heard a few complaints about the fan noise, but I can barely hear it even when running a program designed to maximize activity. Maybe someone younger and living out in the country might object. I don't think Intel makes it as easy as it could to perform hardware management tasks like updating the BIOS. It might also be nice to add even the tiniest, tinniest speaker so you could hear sounds without an external device hooked up. Overall, though, I haven't been as excited about a new desktop for many years