MINI MEDIA MASTERPIECE
A shelf-sized home-theater and couch gaming machine? You can count us in
GENERALLY SPEAKING, desktop PCs are our forte, but we don’t want to shy away from the obscurities out there. Mini form factor machines have always caught our eye, though their inherent restrictions and performance limitations can often dampen our initial interest. However, Intel’s latest NUC 12 Extreme ‘Dragon Canyon’ kits have well and truly sparked that fire in our bellies and we are looking forward to getting right into this rig.
We’ll be tweaking this system to create a small, minimalistic home media and couch gaming system. To spice things up, we’ll be pairing it with XGIMI’s Halo Plus projector. This little companion will sit alongside the NUC 12 on a shelf to provide a discreet setup. There’s something exciting about playing games on the big screen and you can’t beat it for kicking back and binge-watching a Netflix series.