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You can't compare a 7 year old Celeron to those from 2-3 years ago.

Modern Celerons are quite decent.
 
Totempole

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Fox1 said:
So what can this NUC be good for though?
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Not really sure to be honest. Emails, word processing and basic web browsing. Youtube at 360p, that sort of thing. I think the main focus was low power consumption on a budget more than anything else.
 
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Ah yes, all these people chiming in about Celerons being cr@ptastic. Bet they haven't used a 33xx series or higher. Or they compare it to their i5/i7 systems and expect it to be the same.

Any of the naysayers need more info than that, just further proves they haven't used a newer model yet.

That NUC's celeron is horribly slow though.
 
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CamiKaze said:
SABNZBD, Sonarr and Radarr.
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and lots of other things / jobs e.g. torrenting and other web frontends.
Also may be useful for streaming e.g. dstv now / showmax which will usually need a certified android device which is not an issue on the windows platform.

Zenthrax said:
Ah yes, all these people chiming in about Celerons being cr@ptastic. Bet they haven't used a 33xx series or higher. Or they compare it to their i5/i7 systems and expect it to be the same.

Any of the naysayers need more info than that, just further proves they haven't used a newer model yet.

That NUC's celeron is horribly slow though.
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Agreed. The Celeron 847 should have a lot more uses if you apply your mind to it though, provided they are not resource intensive.
 
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Totempole

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enerdude said:
and lots of other things / jobs e.g. torrenting and other web frontends.
Also may be useful for streaming e.g. dstv now / showmax which will usually need a certified android device which is not an issue on the windows platform.
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I'm actually not even sure the Celeron 845 even has enough power to stream DSTV Now via the browser properly. Perhaps on the low/medium setting it should be okay, but 720p and up would be a stretch.
 
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Totempole said:
I'm actually not even sure the Celeron 845 even has enough power to stream DSTV Now via the browser properly. Perhaps on the low/medium setting it should be okay, but 720p and up would be a stretch.
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Should not be a stretch if you go by this and this post in the steam community

edit: lol check this although this setup is Celeron 847 with Intel HD Graphics (Sandy Bridge) 32mb VRam 4GB of RAM, Graphics low Resolution (1280x600) and gets 16-20 FPS

Compared to above examples the Proline Nuc on sale only has 2GB RAM though
 
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