This one is missing the RAM, storage and Windows license.
Yeah learn the meaning of barebone please.
Edited: Apologies, I misread things as pointed out below.
Unless I am missing something I think you posted to someone else and not the person who posted the link to the barebones system. The person you quoted was just trying to post that it was for a barebone system...
4x the cost, less issues, and no need to upgrade for the next several years (potentially 10 years or more). Built my i3 NUC back in 2014, and it hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon. Works great with my Harmony remote too. The experience is painless. I went the Android box and RPi route in the beginning, and it was such a pain maintain, especially those Android boxes. $20-50 for an Android box full of glitches isn't worth the headache IMO, unless you can ditch the Android OS for OpenELEC/LibreELEC.
I agree.. I have a big and zodiac ion myself but I wouldn't say no issues... I had random reboots here and there. Even fire tv and mi box... Ethernet issues, YouTube issues, etc. I am now looking into cheapo s905x to get libreelec on. Android boxes with Android os I wouldnt use.fudge_u wrote: ↑ 4x the cost, less issues, and no need to upgrade for the next several years (potentially 10 years or more). Built my i3 NUC back in 2014, and it hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon. Works great with my Harmony remote too. The experience is painless. I went the Android box and RPi route in the beginning, and it was such a pain maintain, especially those Android boxes. $20-50 for an Android box full of glitches isn't worth the headache IMO, unless you can ditch the Android OS for OpenELEC/LibreELEC.
This is a question because I'm curious... And because I've gone the htpc route before for over a decade.fudge_u wrote: ↑ 4x the cost, less issues, and no need to upgrade for the next several years (potentially 10 years or more). Built my i3 NUC back in 2014, and it hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon. Works great with my Harmony remote too. The experience is painless. I went the Android box and RPi route in the beginning, and it was such a pain maintain, especially those Android boxes. $20-50 for an Android box full of glitches isn't worth the headache IMO, unless you can ditch the Android OS for OpenELEC/LibreELEC.
1) Not using Windows. Using LibreELEC, which is a light version of Linux that uses Kodi as the front end.b31770 wrote: ↑ This is a question because I'm curious... And because I've gone the htpc route before for over a decade.
How are you getting the 10ft experience from an htpc running Windows with all the media and music programs and apps?
How are you switching between programs?
How are you using Netflix with a remote? And YouTube?
How are you playing 10bit 4k X265 files? Can you?
I migrated to an Nvidia Shield when it was $150 and the experience has been flawless. My previous fire tv was also excellent.
I think I know the answers already. Perhaps not.
Unless your NUC has a seventh generation Intel processor or above, it won't be able to process 2160p HEVC properly. It will do it through software and not hardware and the frame rate will suffer. The Shield TV has a processor that can eat 4K HEVC for breakfast. I own a Shield TV, but I prefer the Vero 4K, I'm not a big fan of Android TV.
The J3455 CPU can play x265 10bit files, I'm just not sure if it can handle 4K video.willy0275 wrote: ↑ Unless your NUC has a seventh generation Intel processor or above, it won't be able to process 2160p HEVC properly. It will do it through software and not hardware and the frame rate will suffer. The Shield TV has a processor that can eat 4K HEVC for breakfast. I own a Shield TV, but I prefer the Vero 4K, I'm not a big fan of Android TV.
By the way my main desktop computer is an Intel NUC, with 32GB of RAM and 512GB m.2 SSD. It runs Linux and Windows flawlessly. As stated above, it would not properly play 4K HEVC video files if I tried.
Yeah the person who asked the question was asking someone who built his NUC in 2014, so there was no Intel processor at that time that could handle 4K HEVC. The J3455 is indeed a newer generation that can process 4K HEVC video.
They were asking me. I told them my i3-4010u CPU Intel NUC worked well for me over the past four years, but I never tried it out with 4K videos as I don't own any 4K TVs. 1080p works smooth, and my audio receiver does the audio decoding instead of the NUC.
Yeah I can guarantee you it's not going to work with 4K HEVC. I sadly have the same problem with an older NUC from 2016 that's why I had to buy a Shield TV and Vero 4K to handle this.
Pretty sure my old NUC (2014) doesn't even support anything past HDMI 1.4b, which means 4K isn't even a possibility. The model listed in the OP, supports HDMI 2.0 with 4K at 60Hz.
