I've had several NUCs and been pretty happy with them .They're compact, powerful and decently reliable.This NUC works beautifully except when running 3D graphics code. Even rather low impact 3D games (Wizard101 is enough) the system silently reboots without warning. I'm mostly using this for software development so this hasn't proven to be a major issue, but it is annoying. If I were making my buying decision again I'd likely go with the core i5 version as my previous NUC machines were of that (slightly lower powered) version and have been reliable.