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Of course I had considered the Nucleus, reading the white paper they published there is very little difference between the Nucleus and an NUC running ROCK. The Nucleus has a few things disabled, direct audio output and wifi as an example. There's a chance I might want to use my NUC as a portable Roon setup in the future so Wifi for control and a direct audio output appealed to me. The Nucleus is based on either an early series i3 or i7 for the Nucleus + so they are pretty expensive options although the turnkey approach is appealing of course.
Probably represented better value before the wider availability of second hand NUC's and a choice of fanless cases. I've not put it in a fanless case yet but I will at some point.
Airhead
Cool, thanks for this. I have been looking at NUCs but I feel that I would probably always want the Roon Nucleus as a total fit and forget optimised solution, so I'll perhaps go for that once I've given the laptop thing a go.