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Editor-in-chief Tim Danton writes: A huge thanks to everyone who wrote in about their mini PC experience in response to my request last month. Sadly we don’t have space to include all the responses, but I’m grateful to Jeffrey Barfield, David Forth and John Knight for contacting us, in addition to the published correspondence below.

Life with mini PCs #1

I’ve always been a laptop user but, five years ago, after refurbishing my home office, I hankered after something more versatile and with a large display. I don’t game or edit video, so I bought an Intel NUC barebones with a sixth generation Celeron CPU. I fitted it out with a couple of sticks of DDR3 and a SATA SSD.

Five years on and the NUC has never faltered – I am impressed with the build quality and quiet running. Unfortunately this model

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