[famitsu1]

My 360 remote arrived today and I can confirm that it works straight out of the box with the pentium braswell nuc (the on/off buttons do indeed power up and shutdown the nuc). It's very tactile and intuitively laid out, absolutely no need to reassign any buttons and the backlight is blinding hehe. Huge thanks once again for the info noggin (and everyone else). Best 8 quid I've spent in a long time.
Btw did a bit of research and this remotes smaller brother that you mentioned (the official 360 dvd model) isn't backlit apparently.