This little NUC is amazing. I paired this up with an ADATA XPG 8200 512 GB M.2 SSD. The speed of this PC is amazing. After setting up the BIOS to use Quick Boot, I can restart the PC and be back in Windows (logged in) in about 20 seconds from starting the restart process. Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 2017 load in about 7 seconds. I replaced my 6th gen Core i3 based NUC with this model and the difference is night and day. Much faster. Even the WiFi connection appears to be faster, though that may just be in my head. Overall great value for dollar. I don't think I'm missing anything without the 2 extra cores since this even has HyperThreading. I can also run SQL Server and that's plenty fast as well. Overall a great developer system and I can do some light 3D gaming like Age of Empires at 1920x1200 and it's OK since it has the Intel Iris Plus graphics on-die. Would buy again and recommend to friend.