if you are referring to the snazzy labs video, that's what gave me the idea...so far my results have been good but no way was it 450....I got the NUC, 16gb ram and SSD cards all from newegg...was a little over 500. I have a blue tooth dongle for now, but I went with the 2.5 ssd drive and left my m.2 slot open in consideration of this. There are some comments on the main NUC thread which report recent succeess with a wifi/bluetooth card in the m.2 slot. It may be some time before that is ready for primte time but I wanted to be prepared. I am one week in and so far there is nothing I would change.
Thanks . I wonder if they are making any more of this model - several places are out of stock.
Intel still shows them on their website. Maybe its just low stock since the issue date was supposed to be Q3 2018, that's only six months old. The unit itself is typically around $360 plus tax, B&H photo has them for $387.99 without tax if you live outside N.Y. and fast free shipping. No stock there either but it shows more on the way 2 to 4 weeks. 8gb memory is around $50 and if you use the HDD bay instead of the M2 SATA/ PCIE slot for storage you could go with a 250GB SSD (Samsung EVO 960) for around $60 and almost hit the $450 mark. There are plenty of storage options in the $50 range, a Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA M.2 Type 2280SS also works great in the M2 slot. If you have a wired internet connection you'd be all set. Kind of a minimum configuration but it would work great to start. If you want to dual boot Windows for fun its easy with two hard drives but adds to cost.
I had my bios settings set incorrectly and had that problem.
sorry for the multiple replies...could be the bios version you have as well. There are posts regarding that in the main Rehabman thread as well as here I believe. Versions above 56 cause Hackintosh issues.
