I’ve owned computers and laptops for more than 30 years in various footprints, including early iterations of the NUC.
I was in the market for another computer, in this case as replacement for a laptop that was primarily used as a desktop, attached to a large monitor.
Since I don’t travel very much anymore, I don’t have a compelling need for a laptop, particularly as I can do most everything through phone apps.
I had been looking at the GEEKCOM for quite a while, having been impressed by the features, reviews and price points. I also liked that there was a slot for an additional HDD. However, I was frustrated at how difficult it was to get a 2 TB SSD/32 GB configuration. through their own website and how lengthy was the backorder time.
That is, until I looked at Amazon, where the product was readily available at the same price.
I received my unit within a couple of days and immediately installed the additional hard drive from my old laptop after removing its operating system. That process was simple and certainly far more simple than having to do upgrades on most every laptop I’ve owned.
I do recommend adding the second hard drive as you can preserve space on the SSD and use it to house your apps, while storing files on the HDD. In that manner there would be minimal degradation of speed in executing apps, loading up the operating system, etc.
The GEEKCOM was very simple to set up and very easy to reload applications.
It has lots of ports, very quiet operation, takes up virtually no desk space and really is quite fast, although I don’t use it for gaming, even as I do image rendering.
I’m toying with the idea of adding a portable power supply and monitor as I might consider using it as a laptop replacement on trips.
The unit is now about 2 months old and has probably been the lowest maintenance computer I’ve ever owned.
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