Over the summer, I took a trip to London, England, to visit MSI's UK offices and see what kind of tech it was cooking up — besides the usual gaming hardware that I'm used to. As much as I'm a fan of the MPG motherboards and Ventus graphics cards that have featured in my custom desktops over the years, I'm also a giant advocate for mini PCs, something I hadn't expected from MSI.
After going hands-on with the MSI Cubi NUC AI 1UMG, a relatively standard offering in the same vein as Intel NUC mini PCs you might have seen in the past, I was more intrigued by a variant that wasn't currently available at the MSI office for me to tinker with right away. I'd touched on some light details, but later got my hands on it: the Cubi NUC AI+ 2M, previously seen at CES 2025 — with Copilot+ PC certification.
