Intel Teases First NUC Desktop with Core i7 Broadwell CPU

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New frontier for the NUC

We were intrigued with the potential of the NUC when it first came out -- here was this tiny box with fairly respectable hardware inside powerful enough to serve as a secondary PC or, for the right person, a primary system. There have been several follow-up models since then, but the best is yet to come. Intel has gone and updated its NUC product page with a new model that will be the first to feature a Core i7 processor inside.
Not a lot of details are available on the Core i7 model (NUC5i7RYH), which is one of several new NUCs based on the chip maker's 5th Generation Core processor (14nm Broadwell) line. According to the listing, it will feature a Core i7 part, 2.5-inch drive support, and mosey into retail sometime in the second quarter of this year.
The updated NUC site also lists six other Broadwell-based systems, half of them sporting Core i5 processors (one with a Core i5 5300U vPro chip and two with Core i5 5250U CPUs) while the other half come equipped with Core i3 chips (Core i3-5010U).
What they all have in common is support for up to 16GB of RAM, 2.5-inch and M.2 SSD storage support, four USB 3.0 ports, and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. If you need HDMI output, only the Core i5 models will oblige (and potentially the forthcoming Core i7 model).
You can find out more details on each one here.
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