and it apparently has a 1200p IPS display, all it's missing is a full sized USB port and it would have been perfect.
Most windows tablets come with a crippling 1 gig of ram that bottle necked the whole system. A company I never heard of made 1 of the most amazing tablets I have ever seen. 2 gigs of ram, dual booting, 1080p display. Only downside is the lack of hdmi other than that I see very few 8 inch tablets that can compete with this. I mean there's the shield tablet and asus zen tablet but those cost double the price and lack windows. On that ram note google should have stepped in and put 1.5 gigs of ram as the requirement to run android. Every 1 gig device can barely run 2 apps at once no matter what hardware its paired with. Using music while browsing the internet forget about it. Trying to visit a ram intensive site on firefox get ready to crash. Listening to music while running a game nope. If androids hardware mainly being ram didn't suck the developers could have made the O.S. more than a large phone O.S. for long as tablets been around.
I don't want to pay the NUC premium myself so will likely be buying either a Zotax ZBOX Nano CI323 (quad core) or CI321 (cual core). BI versions are bigger and have active cooling.
2 SODIMMs up to 8GB. VGA, HDMI & DP output. Dual Gigabit NICs. Wireless 802.11ac. USB 3.0 type C ...
They're packed with up to date I/O. I think they come with a VESA mount but regardless a bit of velcro will stick it to anything I'm sure.
That looks like a possible option as well, thanks for the recommendation.
These NUC things are all over the place in China. Some even have core i7's for around $250. But to get it for that amount you do not get RAM, OS, or a HDD or sometimes even wifi pigtails.
This one has an older core i7, http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Fanless-Design-pc-computer-htpc-case-aluminum-minipc-x26-i7-3689y-i7-support-Ubuntu-Linux-12/1091229_32261166145.html but if you check out their other products they have a M intel core i7.
Have you seen any with i3's? I think these would work, but even our i3 laptops at times get bogged down in our EMR while doing specific tasks.
Here is a core i3 4010u, it is slower then the core i7 listed above, but it is listed at $207, so their is more room for upgrades.