$350 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 4-Core (11th Gen) . 32GB ram is like $50 and 2TB ssd’s are under $100.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1620549-REG/intel_rnuc11pahi70001_nuc_barebones_i7_1165g7_tall.html
Taiwan’s news reported that ASUS will continue the NUC product line.
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Thank you @Ting-Yi_Liao, Tom’s Hardware just posted this also:
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Hmm, just when I bought one, and actually got to know about the existence of NUC’s they stop with it… #storyofmylife?
Here is the press release from Intel https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-nuc-systems-agreement.html
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This part is interesting:
Under the proposed agreement, ASUS will receive a non-exclusive license to Intel’s NUC systems product line designs, enabling it to manufacture and sell 10th to 13th Gen NUC systems products and develop future designs.
So Intel retains IPR and is licensing Asus and (potentially) others to continue providing current and future NUC.
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Sorry Marian, but you are very much missing the point!
How on earth do you have the right to feel that what is right for you is right for everybody? It may not be your preferred solution, but there is a very good set of reasons to want, and to run ROCK. It is not for you to dictate what is right or wrong in this type of technology solution.
I know very well how to patch and update generic OS and speciality OS systems, I know very well how to set up ,configure and manage headless systems. I worked in “computers” from 1968 to 2018 when I retired. I have managed everything from vast mainframe systems, to global IT networks, which I designed, implemented and supported; not bigging myself up, but demonstrating that I can find my way around all sorts of computer units.
ROCK has a very real reason to exist, as well as my own, I have assembled 5 other ROCK on NUC setups, all work flawlessly and without any intervention, other than allowing a Roon update to happen. I have never had a single phone call requesting help for a ROCK on NUC system. They just work. Flawlessly. I wish I could say the same for OS issues on many of the custom high-end Windows PCs I have built. Every single generalise OS provider has released patches that on systems that allow automatic update, cause chaos.
Many of the people running ROCK on NUC do so because they want to use Roon to listen to their music, and have no interest, desire, and sometimes ability to manage computers.
The Lenovo Tiny is a great platform, and perfect for you, but not everybody, and you should not be denigrating other perfectly good solutions, because they are not your cup of tea".
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Don’t worry, the NUC you have bought will work reliably for many years to come.
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Yep, has already survived the first ROCK update… and more seriously: ‘no’ moving parts, that’s good!
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What on earth are you talking about? I’m just expressing my views in a forum.
Yes. It is kind of in the name NUCleus.
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It could all have been avoided by “I’m just saying that I have no need for ROCK” instead of “I’m just saying there is no real reason to want ROCK” 
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If you think about it for a second, it’s the same thing in this particular setting.
Not really, no. Maybe we should have inferred that you can’t possibly mean to speak for everyone, but the two statements are different
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Avoid what? Open discussion?
Misunderstanding what you apparently really meant
Misunderstanding happens when people take personally the views and opinions of others and feel like those views and opinions somehow infringe on their rights to do whatever they want or think however they want. “You’re wrong” would do just fine.
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Was waiting for news like this before I posted.
I’ve not read most of this thread because some of it is misleading and a misunderstanding of what NUC is and what the business meant for Intel. Bottom line… Nucleus, I assume, will remain with ongoing support and upgrades. The Nucleus architectures will continue to mimic specific NUC builds, now being built and supported by ASUS (and probably others in future), and those builds are the ones Roon will “certify” for ROCK. The reference architectures for NUC will continue to be published by Intel with the hardware continuing to come from Intel. This will allow ROCK to continue to be developed for newer hardware and therefore available to the tinkering community for those of us that want to play in that sandbox.
No need to panic here. No need to argue the benefits or non-benefits of any of this. Run Roon the way you want to run Roon. Everything is fine. NUC will continue. ROCK will continue. Roon Server will continue. I don’t know why this thread is now 118 posts long. 
Intel’s decision to drop the NUC hardware is very largely a “nothing to see here” event.
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That is what I thought because of the name. I have seen photos of the inside of a Nucleus and I thought that it was a NUC board but did not know for sure. Glad to know this.
–MD
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YES - 100% - I bought a NUC because it was “on the good list”:
I don’t have the desire to learn another system or what ever.
PS: I still miss OS2 (IBM)
Torben