Does Logic Pro phone home to startup? If not you could just have a much longer lifespan provided you don't care about updating Logic and the underlying OS, which is ok if that box is not connected to vulnerable machines and the internet.
I specifically chose the i7 version of the NUC 9 Extreme Kit aka Ghost Canyon, just because MBP Late 2019 has the i7-9750H (spoiler alert: they have the same CPU), so it is still pretty decent in terms of spec, but I don't get the chance to try out the new AI stuff on Apple Silicon.
Another thing though, I attached my 6600 XT ITX card into the Ghost Canyon so it can also carry out huge heavylifting of video editing, which I planned on using Final Cut Pro for such so.
Unfortunately, Apple removed the Broadcom drivers/kext in the latest public beta, the macOS Sonoma apparently raised the supported devices to 2017 and that's when Apple started to use custom built-in chip from Broadcom which can't be used as a M.2. Wifi module. Apple is fucking with most of the Hackintosh users this way and it is clear they waited for a long time.
So, until we can find a way to inject the legacy Broadcom drivers into Sonoma, the Hackintosh network connectivity situation is uncertain and dire.
It is still low profile since it is single-fan design and less than 20cm in depth (it's 18cm). Anything beyond 20cm is considered mainstream cards because they can have dual fans which offered better thermal design. The cost margin to have lesser width is a discrepancy of 20% but I drank the kool-aid nonetheless.
