Intel has been showing off a tiny desktop computer called the Next Unit of Computing, or NUC since April. It’s a 4 inch by 4 inch computer that packs an Intel Core i3 processor, mSATA port, two memory slots, 3 USB ports, HDMI, and Ethernet.
Now the company has announced that the NUC will be available for purchase in October.
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Final pricing hasn’t been set, but the NUC is expected to sell for less than $400 when you buy a model with a case, power supply, and solid state disk. Intel may also sell a CPU and motherboard-only option.
In other words, you can pick up 11 Raspberry Pi or half a dozen MK802-style mini computers for about the same price as an NUC.
But Intel’s solution offers a much more powerful computing experience and support for Windows 7, Windows 8, or pretty much any other operating system that can run on an x86 processor.