Got an older NUC (8i5BEH) on the attic which i recently transfered into a Akasa Turing fanless case. It's only 8th Gen but fully supported by Win 11. My dad mainly uses it for light work. Great little machines, though with the fanless case it gotten bigger ^^ I often have it running at night to let chug away at converting movies to H.265. With that new fanless case it's up to 25C cooler, it would throttle within seconds before.

Kinda makes sense. While I'd say Intel did a great job exemplifying what a mini PC could be capable of, we're now at a point where they don't need to lead by example anymore.