Hi All!
I'm not the OP but a couple things, notes, thoughts, etc.:
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I love this unit. As much as I love my ASRock ION 330, running XBMC, and a plethora of aging Popcorn Hour A-100's and A-110's, I've decided to swap all my media players to the Zotac AD12 so it's time to order another 5 units.
* I've found that the included AzureWave AW-NB087H is based on the Ralink RT3290 chipset and the
WiFi portion of the card has performance issues with my Atheros-based Netgear WNDR3800 running OpenWRT. So on two units that don't have GbE wired up, I'll be swapping out the cards to an
Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235. (I've never liked Ralink-based products).
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I've decided to stick to Windows 7 for the base OS install of XBMC instead of a Linux-based OS (e.g. Ubuntu). Box is very well supported Zotac, AMD, etc.
* I finally did a 'fan-noise' check in the bedroom. It's about the same level of noise as my DirecTV HD24 receiver so during normal use,
I don't expect noise to be an issue or noticeable.
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The remote which comes with the AD12 is virtually the same remote as the AD10, as far as I can tell, so any existing
threads here on getting it properly setup applies to the remote which comes with the AD12. I made a custom registry keymap for it so if anyone is interested, please let me know and I'll post it up.
* I remember reading about the
internal IR receiver on the AD10 had a limited field of view. Subjectively speaking, I have been using the included Zotac AD12 remote with the internal IR receiver from 15 feet away and at varying angles with no issue; I have not yet had a need to hook up the included USB IR dongle.
That's it for now!
Cheers,
Kermee