Rounding out our mini-series on the brand new ASUS NUCs that we began a bit in the past, we’ve our ASUS NUC 14 Professional overview. For a lot of, this way issue would be the most acquainted of the bunch. After ASUS procured the Intel NUC enterprise, traces like this one are actually ASUS manufacturers. As such, allow us to check out what we get within the newest era.
We had a video with this unit and two NUC platforms that you’ll find right here:
This mannequin is technically the ASUS NUC 14 Professional Tall. There’s a quick model out there that lacks a number of the growth capabilities. We didn’t have the quick model to check.
ASUS NUC 14 Professional Exterior {Hardware} Overview
Within the entrance of the system, we get a USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 20Gbps USB Kind-C port. There are additionally a pair of 10Gbps USB 3.2 Gen2 ports and the facility button.
A small however good characteristic is that ASUS labels its USB ports with the velocity. We overview loads of mini PCs, and each single one ought to do that, but only a few do.
On one facet, we get the Kensington lock port.
On either side, we get vents.
Right here is the rear the place a lot of the I/O is. One can see two HDMI ports. There’s a 2.5GbE NIC port in addition to two USB Kind-A ports. One of many Kind-A ports is a USB 3.2 Gen2 10Gbps port, whereas the opposite is USB 2.0. There are additionally two Thunderbolt 4 ports that can be utilized as show outputs as properly.
Beneath the ports is an growth slot. We tried an older USB and NIC growth from a NUC 12, and it didn’t work right here, so test compatibility. It’s a little bit of a bummer that these should not extra standardized.
The DC enter has a neat little characteristic. Right here, we will see the facility cable retention bracket at work to assist decrease undesirable energy disruptions.
On the underside, we get varied mounting choices in addition to a pleasant label with issues like barcodes for the MAC addresses.
Most likely the most effective characteristic can be the tool-less latching and locking mechanism for eradicating the underside cowl. That is tremendous straightforward to make use of. We want extra mini PCs used tool-less chassis.
Subsequent, allow us to open that cowl and get contained in the system.