updates on the NUC idea.
So I plonked in 5k to get it done, about 3k plus for the nuc and 16gb ram and a $990 potable display plus short portable keyboard and mouse from taobao which runs at about 90rmb. Idea definitely works, as portable as a laptop.
However I ran into 2 issues
1. The guy using it can't take the "laptop" to another person in the office to discuss issues they found while working on the excel or PDF documents they are viewing.
2. I spoke to my regular IT guy in Golden and he said he had customer doing the same stuff and that NUC didn't last (2-3yrs life?) being used as a work horse in the office. He said you can't package something that small without sufficient cooling and not expect it to fry
So this idea is a dud. Oh well, at least I tried