This little piece of hardware is so well done that I am able to use it for heavy iterative scientific number crunching, multimedia and other high demand applications.  It runs a little warmer than the 6th generation I5 models but the Power button and SSD/HDD activity light indicator are super cool.  You can even configure the color and brightness of this light indicator, which is good because it can be distracting.I just took my Windows 10 SSD out of my 6th gen I5 NUC and popped it into this one, reactivated  Windows10, updated all the drivers and I was off to the races.  Just make sure you have an electronic Windows 10 license.Out of the box the fan noise was much more noticeable than the 6th gen I5 model.  However; it was running at 4k RPM at no load so I just reduced a minimum duty cycle setting in the bios and now it runs at 2k RPM and is quiet when there is little or no load.