I was just about to order an Intel NUC for XBMC in my lounge, but with the suspected imminent release, finally, of a new Mac Mini I am thinking for around the same money this might be a better device? I've run XBMC on my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 and it works OK bar the odd stutter and frame drop, which I am hoping would not effect the Mac Mini. Is anyone running this on the current Mac Mini and does it work OK?
Mac Mini as XBMC?
- Thread starter Housey
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Yea, I am going to hold off until the new one arrives as I want Haswell and the higher end GPU that tends to come with. I linked up my MacBook Pro to my TV last night and bar the frame drops all worked fine, including sound via HDMI into my soundbar. However, those frame drops did get on my nerves with the 330M GPU in my Pro so I need to ensure that problem goes away with any device I chose. I'm happy paying 500 for a box, but not if it has flaws.
It does.
The thing is, I don't need or want to get too clever with XBMC. I install it, add in the movie, music and tv series scrapers and that's it, it's all I need. Most of my movies are in 1080p MKV files stored on my NAS and I simply like the media artwork and menu systems it provides. I don't need iPlayer, Netflix or any of those things as they sit on my TV's already, I simply like XBMC's movie/tv stuff. I have found Plex to be a pile of dump, much the same for Synologies DS Video but XBMC just works. Aware this is a geek forum, but I'm not very geek with these things so if I like it and it works, the fact it doesn't allow for nigerial subtitles or doesn't decode shdsafglasdhglkhklhlkadshkladhsklfhadsklfhadskjl files is irrelevant 
Could be tomorrow if the internet chat forums are to be believed.
They are not that much cheaper when you add OS, SSD and Memory.