Asus has rescued Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) collection of tiny desktops from the grave, and the gaming-branded ROG NUC caught some severe eyeballs at CES again in January. But Asus isn’t a charity and based mostly on the primary retail listings of the Intel- and Nvidia-powered machine noticed in Europe, it’s going to demand a excessive worth.

Listings for the “Asus Nuc 14 ROG” on the ProShop retailer in Germany and Finland worth the machine at 2,499 Euro whereas the Danish version of the identical store have it at a roughly equal 18,659 Kroner. At in the present day’s change fee, that’s equal to roughly $2,700 USD. The listings have been noticed by NotebookCheck.

While players could be keen to pay high greenback (or no matter) for a 14th-gen Core Ultra 9, even the 16-core 185H laptop computer chip contained in the shrunken-down package deal, they’ll in all probability be much less impressed with the mid-range Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. For $2,700, you may get a high-end gaming laptop computer with these specs and possibly higher.

The ROG NUC could be a bit cheaper relating to the US, because the American market doesn’t must take care of the identical type of import and value-added taxes as Europe. And different, much less highly effective variations could be cheaper. Even so, it looks as if Asus is including fairly a little bit of a sticker premium over earlier generations of the gamer-focused NUC Extreme, even accounting for the variations in DIY costs.