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Small and Mighty: Intel® NUC for Content Creation

Get exceptional performance when working with creative software and large files with a mini PC for video editing, photo editing, and graphic design.

Professional Performance. A Creative Use of Space.

Why choose a mini PC vs. a desktop for content creation? Intel® NUC lets you set up your studio wherever you need to save space: in a small office, on a desk at home, or tucked into a corner.

With an energy-optimized design in a small form factor, Intel® NUC packs in enough performance to run your preferred creative software or engineering applications. Whether you’re a creative professional, CAD engineer, or hobbyist, you can run all your creative tools and connect to your peripherals of choice.

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Power Through Any Creative Workflow

Run multiple high-compute applications, render interactive visuals in real time, and access large files for a project. Intel® NUC products for content creation are built to keep you in the flow.

Video Editing

Work smoothly across multiple large video files, create motion graphics, and render quickly using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and similar programs.

Photo Editing

Store and transfer thousands of raw photos quickly, view color-corrected content in high resolution, and work easily with Adobe Photoshop and other programs.

Graphic Design and Illustration

With a mini PC for graphic design, you get plenty of performance to run software like Adobe InDesign and Illustrator.

3D Graphics

Create animation, virtual reality, 360° media, and other visual effects using proprietary or open source 3D software.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Replace your workstation with an Intel® NUC 9 Pro or Intel® NUC 9 Extreme to draft and design products or buildings, animate special effects, and create other digital content.

Music and Audio Editing

Record and produce professional-quality tracks. Mix and synchronize audio; connect to multiple displays to view several tracks at once.

Live Streaming

Live stream on high settings for game play, presentations, and events and get a seamless experience.

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Feature Rich for Seamless Content Creation

Start with a powerful CPU to run all your creative programs smoothly. Go further with discrete graphics, memory, storage, and connectivity that all work together to give you an incredibly responsive experience.

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Serious Processing Performance

Churn through your work with Intel® Core™ i7 and Intel® Xeon® E processors that tackle heavyweight tasks—like 3D animation and real-time 4K video editing—with ease.

Professional-Caliber Graphics

Get full-powered desktop graphics from a mini PC. Intel® Iris® Xe integrated graphics are revolutionizing creative workflows. Add discrete graphics for even more performance.

Ample Memory and Storage

Pack in plenty of RAM to smoothly run multiple design programs at once. Add solid-state drives (SSDs), including Intel® Optane™, to store and quickly access thousands of video, image, and CAD files.

Multiple Display Support

See the big picture. Connect to multiple 4K displays for the ability to view and work with many different videos, images, or audio tracks at the same time.

Connect to Everything

Thunderbolt™ 3 technology lets you work with multistream HD and 4K video and transfer files from storage at blazing-fast speeds. Additional USB ports ensure enough connectivity for graphics tablets, scanners, music keyboards, and other peripherals.

Breakthrough Wi-Fi 6

Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) delivers ultraresponsive, best-in-class wireless connectivity1 with smooth streaming and fast transfer speeds.

Safeguard Important Data

Select Intel® NUC products with Intel® Xeon® E processors feature error-correcting code (ECC) to offer extra stability for large sequential computations.

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Which Intel® NUC Is Right for You?

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1Best-in-class Wi-Fi 6: Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) products support optional 160 MHz channels, enabling the fastest possible theoretical maximum speeds (2,402 Mbps) for typical 2x2 802.11ax PC Wi-Fi products. Premium Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) products enable 2‒4x faster maximum theoretical speeds compared to standard 2x2 (1,201 Mbps) or 1x1 (600 Mbps) 802.11ax PC Wi-Fi products, which only support the mandatory requirement of 80 MHz channels.
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