Asus NUC 14 Pro AI mini PC review
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- Stx
- 09 Feb 2025
I wonder why Intel makes it so hard for manufacturers to produce PCs with its latest processors? I checked to see if another manufacturer known for more reasonable prices (Beelink) has released mini PCs with this series of processors and it turned out they didn't! It's been 5 months since Core Ultra 200V series processors have officially "released" and we still have to wait for some manufacturers to release actual products with them. Is it because Intel has trouble... actually producing their processors in quantity?
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- Anonymous
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- 04 Feb 2025
Paulw, 04 Feb 2025This one is about the price of a desktop PC . The days of t... moreI said that mini PCs are cheaper than laptop with the same specs. I don't defend the price of this mini PC, by the way. About $1,100 without storage is ridiculous.
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 04 Feb 2025
lewein, 03 Feb 2025WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAS TO HAVE AI?AI?AI?
it's tireso... moreWhat's all this ai hype about anyways and why did it suddenly pop up all over the world at the same time?
A couple is years ago nobody ever heard this word AI now it's all over the news and all devices have it. Wtf is really going on
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 04 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 03 Feb 2025LOL. It's a PC.My homemade PC runs at a cool 30° Celsius with watercooling. No problems so far.
Running your components are over 50° for a longer period of time is going to damage the components lifetime.
Plastic starts to melt and burn at 100°. Not a good idea
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- Anonymous
- Sr6
- 04 Feb 2025
Vegetaholic, 02 Feb 2025Lol, did you ever used PC or laptop? Dudes talking about CP... moreThen I suggest you should run your devices at 100° and then come here and cry about how your computer had a meltdown. Go for it boomer.
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- Paulw
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- 04 Feb 2025
1989, 02 Feb 2025Change your name to techarenaMay as well as GSM tech died years ago.
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- Paulw
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- 04 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 03 Feb 2025The main benefit of using a mini PC is that it takes very l... moreThis one is about the price of a desktop PC . The days of these things being cheap has gone.
- lewein
- Jys
- 03 Feb 2025
WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAS TO HAVE AI?AI?AI?
it's tiresome already. everything you buy today has the AI word in the title.
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- PetrovBG
- 0BG
- 03 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 03 Feb 2025Okay like I'm not going to say it. About AI stuff. ... moreIt feels like companies themselves are the only ones excited about the "AI" garbage.
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- Anonymous
- YP6
- 03 Feb 2025
Okay like I'm not going to say it.
About AI stuff.
Just interesting that companies are still pushing on Ai.
Hmmm
I dont know. Ai is cool but , really specially with Ai dedicated PCs , ummm ??? If its not cheap or anything beneficial then why.
This is cute small box but will you buy one ? Not for me.
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- Kaka
- tZ4
- 03 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 202578° Celsius lmao! They should've added a snapdragon. ... moreDesktop/pc/laptop chip has more total power draw compare to smartphone chip. With different architecture x64 vs arm and different task orientated, it can't be compared.
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- Rouxenator
- Fw$
- 03 Feb 2025
After 23 years of using AMD I recently tried a Dell Optiplex Micro with i5-14500T. It was terrible! Switched to a NucBox K11 with Ryzen 9.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 202578° Celsius lmao! They should've added a snapdragon. ... moreLOL. It's a PC.
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- Anonymous
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- 03 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2025Exactly. Will never understand the appeal of these things. ... moreThe main benefit of using a mini PC is that it takes very little space. Mini PCs are much smaller than laptops. Mini PCs are cheaper than laptops that have the same specs, by the way.
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- Anonymous
- XIZ
- 02 Feb 2025
rizki1, 02 Feb 2025$1100 for a thing without screen, speakers and keyboard lol... moreExactly. Will never understand the appeal of these things. I bought my Ausus G14 for €1000 about 3 years ago, which I use 70% of the time connected to a large 28" monitor with a keyboard and a mouse. It lasts 4-6 hours during traveling, and and is very thin and lightweight.
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- Anonymous
- 70d
- 02 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2025We live in strange times.. Where an apple product is CHEAPE... moreDid you read the review?
"When it comes to gaming, there is no comparison to the Mac mini. While the Mac has come a long way, Windows still gets all the games first and the NUC 14 Pro AI also runs them much better than the M4 Mac mini."
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- Vegetaholic
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- 02 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 02 Feb 202578° Celsius lmao! They should've added a snapdragon. ... moreLol, did you ever used PC or laptop? Dudes talking about CPU like they all snapdragonsrunning on the phone 🤣 78 degrees in NUC is amazing temperatures and will run for years, as these chips designed to run up to 90-100 degrees, he says 50 degrees will damage it 🤣
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- CargoJoe
- tu6
- 02 Feb 2025
AnonF-1006353, 02 Feb 2025Maybe don't compare it with outdated DOA intel garbage... moreProbably cause it also has high compatibility rate with many apps. Also don't expect to find any Ryzen 9 HX AI 395 anytime soon. Seeing the issue with Ryzen laptops on the past 2 years, you won't see any of those anytime soon.
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- lampuiho
- pLt
- 02 Feb 2025
AnonF-1006353, 02 Feb 2025Maybe don't compare it with outdated DOA intel garbage... more4070 (laptop) performance maybe but not the desktop version. But they were running at high TDP (120W) and it was in TimeSpy where the CPU is doing nothing. So, most of the power can be diverted to the GPU portion.
The CPU part is not more efficient than intel. Ryzen can beat Intel's in floating point calculation but still not quite caught up in web browsing especially in low TDP settings (sub 10W TDP).
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- Hemedans
- XKx
- 02 Feb 2025
AnonF-1006353, 02 Feb 2025True, but that few watts not worth the massive multicore di... moreDepend with use case, some people care more about idle power than multicore. Usual intel with quicksync is unbeaten at low power so for media purpose, transcoding, office use etc Lunar lake is much better, even gaming if you want something which run at low power.