Extremely pleased with my NUC. Bought it about 2 months ago and it's working like a champ. Didn't do my research well enough and bought it with the Optane memory along with a 500gB SSD and a 2gB HDD and 32gB of RAM so I had to do some reconfiguring when I got it and I'm left with a 16gB Optane memory card which I have no use for. That was my fault though. Already loaded and running probably a lot more useless crap than I need on it but it still boots up amazingly fast. From power on to when I can actually start using it is less than 30 seconds. Why anyone would not opt for an SSD at this point in time is beyond me. I've read a lot of the other reviews with the noise, flickering and whatever and mine doesn't have any of those issues. Again, very happy with it.