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DrQ

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Being a Linux-head, I have had to brush up my Windows skills. My last environments were Windows 7/Windows 2008 based.

At one point (6 years ago) I was going build a liquid cooled tower with a huge multicore processor, but I bought an I7 quad core Mac book with 16 GB of RAM instead which had enough power to run Fusion for limited VM's.

Well I decided I needed to take the plunge and set up a Windows 10 Pro machine. I looked through my servers and the tech was at least 8 years old and I really needed to up the horsepower of the HW to support Win 10. I know you can shoehorn it down into lesser H/W, but I have usually experienced performance issues.

Enter the NUC (Next Unit of Computing). I bought an Intel I7 hex core with 64 GB of RAM with 1 TB of SSD. It came with a Windows 10 Pro License. All of this fits into a 4.4" x 4.6" x 2" cube! :love: I tied it into the TV as a display with an HMDI connector, but I configured it to run Remote Desktop (RDP) from Mac, so I rarely use the TV as a display, but I can.

I loaded VMWare Workstation Pro on it to move my VM's from my Mac.

If you want to replace a desktop, it will support up to three monitors with a lightning connector.

All in all, it is pretty sweet. If you are looking for a "portable" computer to move between houses, you might want to look into a NUC.
 

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DrQ, I have been using NUC's for years. Two of them run Mint Linux (including the one I using right now), and one runs Windows 7.

I have a HDMI 4 banger KMV switcher. One "dirty" Linux box (for the internet), One clean Linux box for my Virtual machines (I used VirtualBox), and one Win7 for special purpose Windows software (also clean, .i.e. not connected to the Internet). I also have an old Acer Revo 16 running XP (also clean).
 
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