I bought two NUCs, one personally and one through work. I had a desktop class i9 chipset that I could travel around the world with. I actually plugged it into something like [0] with an eGPU when it was at home for the extra oomph.

I'd buy another for my next machine.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-MasterCase-enclosure-...