How good is the Intel NUC for programming?

Question

linux

Who has experience. Can you suggest how it is?
I'm not interested in the game, but the regular version.

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Suppose my needs are: Linux, running IDE (php/web storm), browser with 10-15 tabs, server or docker in the background, a couple more softins such as notepad, skype, telegram.

And all this is acceptable with 8-16 GB of RAM.

Answer 1

Who has experience. Can you suggest how it is?

Yes, it pulls normally, but it is desirable to take the i7 of the 8th or 10th generation (in the summer with 32 GB + ssd 500 it cost about $ 1k on Ali you could buy analogues for $ 700-800, but I don’t like to take electronics there).

And all this is possible with 8-16 GB of RAM.

Of course, you can put 8-16GB there, but I would spend the extra 5k rubles and put at least 32 there, in general, even a virtual machine in the background pulls without any problems. If in general it is in terms of performance, this is a laptop for the tasks that you described, it will be more than enough.
upd: I saw in the comments that you are considering i3-i5 options. The i3 has two cores, most likely it will be hard for him to carry several tasks, I have an i5-3230m, he still copes with one ide and a couple of programs, but if, for example, I run android studio and an emulator, then the laptop slows down a lot. The i3 benchmark shows a performance gain of 40-70% in tests, but I would take a closer look at the more powerful processors.