Intel releases Beast Canyon

Stefan Mileschin · 27th September 2021, 07:11

Rather good but very pricey

Intel's NUC 11 Extreme mini PC, otherwise known as Beast Canyon, has launched to retail, at a price much higher than Chipzilla promised.

Amazon is listing Intel's top configuration outfitted with a Core i9 11900KB processor. The least expensive is a barebones kit priced at $1,770 (via FanlessTech), plus another $55 for shipping, by a marketplace seller. So that's $1,825 to start, and at minimum, you need to add memory, storage, and an operating system to get up and running. A discrete graphics card is optional.

The online bookseller flogs a kitted build with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a 250GB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 for $1,895 with shipping factored in, and another with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 Pro for $2,085 including shipping. Like the barebones kit, you can jack in a full-size graphics card to either of these configurations.

To be fair, Beast Canyon was never going to be cheap, but Intel told us in July that the Core i9 configs would start at $1,350, while Core i7 models would begin at $1,150, so there appears to be a hell of an early adopter tax here.

https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...s-beast-canyon

27th September 2021, 07:11	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,797	Intel releases Beast Canyon Rather good but very pricey Intel's NUC 11 Extreme mini PC, otherwise known as Beast Canyon, has launched to retail, at a price much higher than Chipzilla promised. Amazon is listing Intel's top configuration outfitted with a Core i9 11900KB processor. The least expensive is a barebones kit priced at $1,770 (via FanlessTech), plus another $55 for shipping, by a marketplace seller. So that's $1,825 to start, and at minimum, you need to add memory, storage, and an operating system to get up and running. A discrete graphics card is optional. The online bookseller flogs a kitted build with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a 250GB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 for $1,895 with shipping factored in, and another with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 Pro for $2,085 including shipping. Like the barebones kit, you can jack in a full-size graphics card to either of these configurations. To be fair, Beast Canyon was never going to be cheap, but Intel told us in July that the Core i9 configs would start at $1,350, while Core i7 models would begin at $1,150, so there appears to be a hell of an early adopter tax here. https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...s-beast-canyon

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