Intel NUC 11 Beast Canyon vs standard NUCs: Beast Canyon wins for upgradeability with a socketed desktop CPU

Most NUCs use soldered mobile processors, but the Beast Canyon runs a standard LGA 1200 socket with 11th Gen desktop CPUs up to 65W. You can drop in a Core i5, i7, or i9-11900KB, making it one of the few truly upgradeable NUCs Intel ever made. It’s the closest Intel came to a socketed SFF enthusiast box.