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I surely hope so as I have a NUC Haswell in my wishlist.
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The current builds of Openelec posted in the forums work very well and can be run easily from a USB drive. Setting up native Ubuntu or Mint on the other hand was FAR more challenging in my case. The UEFI proved a real pita! I installed multiple distro only to have an unbolt able system. Grub rescue was able to solve this but it took a few tries to get the right combo of settings to fix it. I was never successful at getting audio out or the remote working but the remote solution is now known and posted in the other thread - the issue is a BIOS problem. Do update to the latest BIOS, hopefully Intel will solve this soon.
IMO go with Openelec! It's very polished, it all works, and you could skip the SSD if you chose to. Openelec requires only a few tweaks and many people are working together to make it smooth on the NUC. I've just ordered the parts for a second NUC, an i5, although the i3 I've already got suffers no performance issues at all. You won't need much memory but its cheap so that's up to you, both of my boxes will have 8gig but my second box will have a smaller SSD. I've yet to install Openelec to my SSD but if I run into boot issues I know how to solve them now. I expect to do that soon as my experience with the USB stick has been awesome. I will miss the full desktop and compiling XBMC as I have for years but this is far fewer headaches right now!
P.S. If you use an SQL server there's a tweak in Openelec you will need to use to delay startup of XBMC until after the network comes up or you won't be able to access the SQL server. Happy to find this option!
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D34010WYK will do the job without any problems, if u only intend to use it for Xbmc there is really no need for the i5.
I do have this combo with a Intel 30gb mSata running openElec, there are still small issues here and there but nothing major anymore..
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I have both the i3 and i5 NUC, honestly neither feels faster than the other. I got the i5 because it was available first and because I wanted to do other things with it and compile XBMC from source on that box. For day to day use the i3 makes the most sense for nearly everyone. They look EXACTLY the same and both perform terrific. The i5 probably performs a little better on benchmarks and the GPU is slightly "better" spec but I've found nothing that takes advantage of that running XBMC so don't sweat it.
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How you can add ssd hard drive to that small case?
it is not coming with sata cable and power
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mSATA drive, about the size of a pack of gum and it slips into a dedicated slot like a wifi card.
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I'm considering getting the D34010WYK for my HTPC to replace my ATV1. I want to have 5.1 audio on the HDMI jack and stereo output on the headphone jack at the same time. My receiver only takes analog input for Zone 2 and I don't want to have to change audio devices in XBMC each time. Both connections will connect through my Onkyo receiver. I currently do this on my ATV1 with CB2.
So in XBMC Audio setup:
Audio Output= HDMI
Speaker configuration=5.1
Audio output device = HDMI Output (whatever the device name is)-don't want to have to change this to Analog Audio Device
Passthrough output device= HDMI Output (whatever the device name is)
So when playing Music I would get sound from the HDMI and Stereo output. When playing Movies I would get HDMI 5.1 output.
I sometimes listen to Music with the receiver and TV on so I need audio through the HDMI. Other times I listen to Music only with Zone 2 on my receiver and the TV off. I know some sound boards provide simultaneous support for 5.1 channel sound playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo output.
Does anyone know if this is possible? Could someone test?
I would use either Windows 7 or Linux Mint as OS.