| From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | | I just noticed "INTEL NUC M15 EVO Platform Consumer Notebook" on sale at | Canada Computers. I know about NUC box, but didn't know Intel made a laptop | also. Here's a link to the Canada Computers offering: <https://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_4418_4423&item_id=230664> It looks to be a clearance: - 33% discount - no stock for online sale - no stock in my closest store - some stock at other stores Note: if you want this, I have been able to get CC to ship items from another store to your local store if you pay for the item ahead of time. | Anyone heard anything bad about them? I had not heard about this line before. Here's a good article about them from two years ago: <https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/19/21573577/intel-nuc-m15-laptop-news-specs-features-price> I would not buy this particular model. There are computers with similar specs for much less. But then I normally don't like paying for looks or feel. For $1000 I'd want more than FullHD, especially at 15.6". Of course this depends on one's eyes: it might be just right for you. Like most (but not all) high-end notebooks, you cannot upgrade the RAM. 16G is enough probably, but it is great to have an option. My elderly XPS 15 has 32G of RAM because it was easy to replace the 8G that it came with. My impression is that AMD is a better choice for notebook processor at the moment: less power consumption for the same computation. The Apple M1 and M2 are even better, but not yet for Linux.