Buy your NUC between now and April 15th for a chance to win your money back!

fiveub · 14 Mar 2013 at 16:04

Buy your NUC between now and April 15th for a chance to win your money back!

You'll be surprised at what these little beauties have to offer! Crammed full of tech these are a perfect solution for anyone looking to have a compact system.

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Genoma · 14 Mar 2013 at 20:49

XBMC with this should be nice, I'm sure the i3 can cope with any 1080p you can throw at it. Just did a search and it seems DTS HD Master and Dolby True HD worked with latest Intel video drivers too.

Genoma · 14 Mar 2013 at 20:51

real shame about no USB 3.0 though

gropingmantis · 14 Mar 2013 at 21:40

Argh I want to do this but I also want to wait for the i5 USB3 version coming in April

Perfect replacement for my main PC.

Edward78 · 15 Mar 2013 at 03:40

A case like that with nothing inside would be good.

FrankJH · 15 Mar 2013 at 09:44

Genoma said:
real shame about no USB 3.0 though

This is what surprised me too

Its also quite expensive (the price of a shuttle, but more restricting due to size)

Sub £200 and I would be interested, after all you probably need £100 ontop for SO-Dimms &SSD (I was going to add an optical drive but guess usb pen drive is good enough for this for OS install)

Genoma · 15 Mar 2013 at 11:16

If they managed to ship the i5 version of this, with USB3 ports, 8GB RAM and a 64GB SSD for £350 it should sell like hot cakes.

FrankJH · 15 Mar 2013 at 17:28

Genoma said:
If they managed to ship the i5 version of this, with USB3 ports, 8GB RAM and a 64GB SSD for £350 it should sell like hot cakes.

I cant see that happening for some time

you are talking about ~£100 of addon's (not to mention the difference in cost between the i3 and i5 + USB3) for £70

We might be lucky if the i5 version without anything is £350 but I suspect even that is unlikely

Genoma · 16 Mar 2013 at 00:52

I suspect you are right!

Rich · 30 Mar 2013 at 11:22

Ordered the i3 version, 4 gig of ram and a 32Gb M4 mSata SSD. Its going to replace my Boxee box and will be running OpenElec 3.
We are using these at work for a project and the build quality is excellent. Properly tank-like little things. Looking forward to having a play.

kidloco · 31 Mar 2013 at 17:22

Rich said:
Ordered the i3 version, 4 gig of ram and a 32Gb M4 mSata SSD. Its going to replace my Boxee box and will be running OpenElec 3.
We are using these at work for a project and the build quality is excellent. Properly tank-like little things. Looking forward to having a play.

Which one you get, dual hdmi or thunderbolt one?

Red Alert · 1 Apr 2013 at 10:50

I was thinking of one of these running Windows 7 with XBMC on it to replace my jailbroken Apple TV 2. Would the Celeron one be enough for me or should I go for the i3?

Any advice is greatly received.

Rich · 1 Apr 2013 at 14:47

kidloco said:
Which one you get, dual hdmi or thunderbolt one?

Dual HDMI. The Thunderbolt version doesn't have wired LAN. Non starter as far as I'm concerned.

Rich · 1 Apr 2013 at 14:50

Red Alert said:
I was thinking of one of these running Windows 7 with XBMC on it to replace my jailbroken Apple TV 2. Would the Celeron one be enough for me or should I go for the i3?

Any advice is greatly received.

I went for the i3 to give me some headroom. The Celeron one should be able to handle pretty much anything as long as the GPU is doing the decoding. I just wanted everything to fly, including menu browsing/tagging etc. Figured the extra £90 would be worth it.

Edit: take a look at Openelec. That's what I'm going to run. It's an OS that boots straight into xbmc. Linux under the hood.