With their minimal footprint, smaller than one liter capacity box, you can mount it at the back of your monitor, or just put beside it.
Low energy consumption with a small external power supply, some fast USB 3.x, DDR4 2666 MHz RAM, M.2 / NVMe Solid State Disk, UHD 4K graphics with one or two HDMI port. Some embed a practical memory card reader too.
They're not hardware monsters for gaming, but nevertheless are a good compromise between expensive AIO and traditional solutions,
Generally silent (some of them even fanless), they are the generalized evolution of the well estabilished Intel NUC concept.
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