Hmm – that gives me some food for thought. And I read some more about this here: 8th Generation NUC’s announced
Bottom line: The NUC8 is better in terms of performance than the NUC7, with the NUC8 i3 even rivaling the NUC7 i7. AND the NUC8 is, in the current market, less expensive than the NUC7. Now that’s very tempting indeed. On the other hand, none of the NUC8 machines are currently officially supported by Roon. While many people do in fact run Roon on a NUC8 machine, you are thus on your own if something goes wrong – a considerable downside for a newbie like me. Also, with reference to what wizardofoz has written, I do not actually need a top performing NUC. My library is 30.000 tracks, with very HiRes, the idea being that I will take most if not all superior quality material from Tidal. DSD is thus not in the picture, only MQA unfolding.
Still undecided …