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The Hidden Costs of Cheap IT Support
11 Mar, 2026







£639.01 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
For £535.58 ex-VAT, an ASUS NUC 15 Pro barebone is a bit of a niche buy: it only makes sense if you already know exactly what you’re pairing it with, and you’re confident you’ll want the flexibility to spec memory/storage/cables the way your environment needs. In day-to-day office deployments, NUC-style systems are great when you want a small, quiet, low-footprint box that’s easy to manage and doesn’t take over your desk or rack shelf. This one also feels like the sort of thing an IT team will like for standardising builds across multiple sites—assuming your licensing/licensing model and imaging process are already in place.
That said, if you’re comparing it against “ready-to-go” small form factor PCs or refurbished minis, the value depends entirely on what you’d be adding. If you still need to spec everything, the total cost can creep up fast, and at that point you’re paying for the convenience of being able to choose—rather than for the cheapest path to a working endpoint. I’d recommend it to SMBs or mid-market resellers who want predictable deployments and prefer controlled configuration; I’d hesitate if you just need a single machine quickly, or you don’t have a clear idea of your required memory/storage and power/user profile. In short: good platform, but only genuinely good value when your final bill of materials is sensible.

Asus
ASUS ROG NUC RNUC14SRKU9189A3I - Mini PC gaming - Core Ultra 9 185H / up to 5.1 GHz - RAM 32 GB - SSD 1 TB - GeForce RTX 4070 - Gigabit Ethernet, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E), Bluetooth 5.3 - Win 11 Home - monitor: none - black

Asus
ASUS NUC 15 Pro Tall Kit RNUC15CRHU700002 - Barebone - mini PC 1 x Core Ultra 7 255H / up to 5.1 GHz - RAM 0 GB - Arc Graphics 140T - IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.4, IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) - black

Asus
NUC/14 Essen RNUC14MNK3500003 UK Cord L6

Asus
ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ RNUC14RVSU900000I - Barebone - mini PC 1 x Core Ultra 9 185H / up to 5.1 GHz - RAM 0 GB - Intel Arc Graphics - Gigabit Ethernet, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E), Bluetooth 5.3 - silver