Intel NUC at Gemini Lake - Low Cost Mini Home PCs

Very little time has passed since the announcement of the budget line of Intel Celeron / Pentium processors - Gemini Lake , and Intel is already ready to offer you a NUC mini-PC based on them . As the performance of the latest generation of Intel processors grows, the NUC is becoming increasingly suitable for replacing stationary PCs in many cases of home use and a variety of embedded solutions. This time, in addition to the “do it yourself” kits without memory and storage, consumers are offered a completely ready boxed version with the installed OS.



In total, this family consists of 2 models, NUC7CJYH and NUC7PJYH, based on Intel Celeron J4005 and Intel Pentium Silver J5005 processors, respectively. Processors, as already mentioned, are very similar, so the characteristics of the two NUC are almost identical.

	NUC7CJYH	NUC7PJYH
CPU	Intel Celeron J4005	Intel Pentium J5005
Video	Intel HD Graphics 600	Intel HD Graphics 605
Video output	2x HDMI 2.0a
Memory	Two DDR4 SO-DIMM slots (up to 8 GB)
Storage	2.5 "HDD or SSD, SDXC slot with UHS-I support
USB ports	2x USB 2.0 inside, 4x USB 3.0 outside
Network	Gigabit LAN, Intel Wireless-AC 9462 with Bluetooth v5
Audio	7.1 via HDMI; L + R + mic (F); L + R + TOSLINK ®
Dimensions	11.5 x 11.1 x 5.1 cm
Power Supply	19 V, 65 W
Cost of	$ 119	$ 172

The boxed version, officially called Intel NUC 7 Essential, a Mini PC with Windows 10, and shortly - NUC7CJYSAL , built on the basis of NUC7CJYH (models with Celeron) by adding there 32GB eMMC, 4 GB of RAM and Microsoft Windows 10 Home operating system. The cost of this option is still unknown.