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You have pretty well nailed my line of thought. Relatively cheap, small form factor, easy to power, enough grunt to do the job well, enough ports, all on the current ones are USB3 which would be nice for speeding up image transfer as my camera port and cable are USB3, 250GB or so SSD will be plenty for Windoze and a weekend of imaging. I am pretty sure that I have some spare properly licensed copies of W7 around too and have read that while the upgrade is not still automatic you can manually do a free W7 to W10 upgrade with a bit of work. Saves paying for an OS, and in fact even an unlicensed version of W10 works just fine. I have been using that on the NUC for two months now, all you get is a limitation in customising the display and a small "Nag" overlay in one corner of the screen.
I just need a 12V supplied router that I can dial the wifi power level down on (It will only need to work for maybe 20M) and I could image from inside the tent in the warm once things are up and running. I was looking at if I can get away with direct connection via ethernet or wifi but it is looking like a pain, easier to just put a cheap router in as the middle man when I am in the field away from the home network.
Now I am considering taking the big deep breath and drilling holes in my mount to take the power and USB cables up through the RA axis with the polar scope removed. If I can make a different mount for my Polemaster I could run them straight up the middle with a bit of work to keep them away from the Dec shaft.
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