One of the big selling points of the mini is that it's really quiet. Does anyone with actual experience know how the NUC compares? From what I've read it's significantly louder, which is not what you want from a living room PC.
Oddly, it's the end of an era: The first computer I've owned that I'm not tempted to install MS Office on.
It is completely silent until you do some gpu/cpu intensive stuff for some time.
It is a lot better than my previous MSI cubi which had the fan always running and had a much mor annoying noise.