I had been waiting for the NUC8 to come out for months.  Wanted to get the latest gen, quad core, HT cpu using almost 1/2 the power of my skull canyon.I had a skull canyon running as a headless Virtualization server.  Running Ubuntu and Virtualbox (I didn't want to take the time to mess with VMWare), and loaded with 32GB of Kingston DDR4 2400 RAM and a Samsung EVO 960.  When this NUC came out with it's 28W cpu I wanted to replace the SC for any performance boost the 2 gen newer CPU would provide with the power savings.  I took out the RAM and NVMe drive and plugged them into the NUC8 and boom.  It runs 5 or 6 VMs 24/7 while using little energy and is mostly silent.  Just what I was looking for.Then I moved the Skull Canyon to my desktop, but again wanted that performance boost and power savings, so I bought a second one.  Also running Ubuntu 18.04 and has the power to run more VMs if needed.  Now anytime needed I can run both NUC8s 24/7 if needed for almost the same power hit as the single SC.They're great.