[gjsman-1000]

> NUC 14th gen with i3 is around 400 EUR with VAT

4 cores instead of 10 cores, 69W TDP instead of 22W, UHD Graphics 730 versus Apple's 10 core GPU (0.5 TFLOPs vs about 4.3), 23% worse single core performance, 45% worse multicore, and much louder cooling.

It's not a fair comparison.

[vetinari]

So get a stronger one. There will be always something that is better on one or another side.

I have 13th gen i7, with 64 GB RAM and 2 TB ssd (and 2.5 GbE). It was 800 EUR + VAT, last year. How much would similar Mac Mini cost?

Not a fair comparison either.

Edit: 69W for the NUC is not TDP. It is 69W power brick that ships with the machine.

[attentive]

what do you get in https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.0 ? - m4 mini is 45 it seems.

[vetinari]

A few more datapoints, of course completely unscientific, because why not:

                         | Firefox | Chrome | Safari |  Edge
    =====================|=========|========|========|=======
    Intel 1360P (Ubuntu) |  16.6   |  19.8  |  n/a   |  n/a
    Apple M1 (MacOS)     |  24.6.  |  26.3  |  28.5  |  28
    AMD 2920X (Fedora)   |  12.3   |  11.9  |  n/a   |  n/a
    AMD 2920X (Windows)  |  12.2   |  n/a   |  n/a   |  14.9

[vetinari]

16.6 in Firefox, 19.8 in Chrome (Ubuntu 24.04, both browsers in flatpak).

[Symbiote]

How noisy is it?

I made a fanless NUC 7 (!) years ago with a special case, and it's perhaps due for replacement.

[vetinari]

Still can be heard, but it is not so annoying as it was. The fan noise is, how to describe it, softer?

Comparing nuc7i7dnke to nuc13anki7.

[AshamedCaptain]

It's almost half the price.