I bought this to replace an Intel Stick that was just not powerful enough for what I needed it to do. The NUC is more expensive but it delivers. Fast, quiet, small, doesn't heat up and no discernible fan noise. I installed 16GB of Crucial RAM and a Samsung Evo 250GB M.2 drive and had it up and running in less than an hour, including installing Windows 10 Pro. The performance of this little beast is really impressive, you'd be hard pressed to tell this isn't a desktop PC. I did upgrade the BIOS and all the drivers after installing Windows 10, no issues.Based on my experience with this little guy, I plan on replacing my desktop HTPC with a NUC as well, to save space. Highly recommended!