I was quite excited to receive this system, since it seems to be the first NUC available that is of the revamped design. However, it has been quite disappointing. I bought this primarily to be a small HTPC, mostly for streaming and also using an external bluray drive via USB. The NUC comes with a very clean version of Windows 10 with no boatware. But even so, I found the performance to be so poor that it was unable to stream 1080p or play bluray without significant video stutter. I tried many remedies, for example I updated all drivers, I flashed the bios, I eliminated all background programs, I entirely disabled Cortana, I overclocked a bit through the bios, I tweaked the video settings, and then finally I upgraded to 8GB PCL-14900 memory. In this case I was able to minimize and even eliminate the stutter with streaming HD video. However, the stutter is still very substantial and noticeable when playing blurary discs with my external USB bluray player. I'm a stickler for these types of things and I just can't live with it like this. Even more, I also had a great deal of problems with laggy mouse movements, and generally Chrome loaded noticeably slowly. Virtually any time I was using any program, the mouse movements would lag and stall. I think the problem is this thing just isn't beefy enough for my needs -- even though my needs are pretty basic. So I'm going to return this item and I think wait for one of the NUCs with the 7th Generation Intel Core i5 or i7. I recommend you also wait. Those NUCs should perform better.