Was looking around for an upgradable and cheap NUC like box. The ones on the ebay specials with Futu and PC-Byte are the latest NUC's that have the Celery Dual Core N3050 - performance is pretty sub par with it being as good as a low end Atom. Found this from Geekbuying using the previous gen Quad Core Celeron J1900 with much higher performance for much less.
like the NUC, you have to BYO RAM/Disk/OS (which I have some around at home from other upgrades). It takes a 2.5" SATA drive (hdd or SSD) and uses laptop DDR-3L's for up to 8GB of RAM. edit - can confirm it also has an extra mSATA interface of supposedly "up to 128GB" on top of the WLAN card. Can use this as the boot drive and stick all the movies on a 2TB 2.5" drive if that is the preference.
Specs:
Intel Celeron Quad Core J1900 Processor
Intergrated GPU
Built-in Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
Gigabit LAN
Bluetooth 4.0
Stylish design,upgradable storage
Multi-language supported for multiple regions and dialects around the world
USB 3.0 Interface
Comparing the N3050 in the latest NUCs vs the J1900:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Celeron-N3050-vs-…
can i get this for my new diet?