



Granted it shouldn’t be surprising in the age of ultrabooks and increasingly thin laptops. Within the NUC’s almost impossibly small confines hides a surprising amount of hardware. The computer geek in me with flush with excitement, but a tiny skeptical voice in the back of my head was keen to point out “this thing is tiny, you can’t do any serious work on that! It’s a toy.” A year later, and the skeptic in me could not have been proved more wrong. A fresh, shiny and tiny new computer to replace the crusty “shuttle” form-factor PC that had been slowly grinding to a halt toward the end of 2015 and playing havoc with my workflow. When I recovered I was greeted by one of those things that reminds me why I love where I work an Intel NUC had been deposited upon my desk. After coming back from Christmas break I was hit with an almighty cold or virus or something.
