Asus is coming back with what’s likely its most appealing, most excessive gaming-ready mini PC yet, the ROG NUC 16 . It will likely come with an accompanying price that’s likely to make your wallet cry out in anguish. Intel’s NUCs, short for “Next Unit of Computing” PC, were supposed to offer pint-sized PCs with desktop-level customizability inside of a premium chassis. But a combination of limited customization options and expensive pricing pretty much doomed NUCs like the Intel NUC 9 Extreme (“Ghost Canyon”) . So Intel  handed off the NUC design to Asus in 2023. Since then, the ROG NUCs have proved especially appealing to mostly gamers with limited desk space. The ROG NUC 16 is the most powerful and most console-like of the NUCs Asus has produced so far. It maintains the same basic shell as the previous NUC 15, but it now includes Intel’s refreshed Arrow Lake CPU, the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX.…