[robo989]

@fritsch
This looks very promising news in respect of Braswell: Link

I'm not sure if the N3000 will be available for ITX motherboards, but the second lowest N3050 should be. It is 6W compared to 4W of N3000 but looks much stronger, probably a reasonable compromise in terms of speed and power.
The N3150 should be "very" powerful, running 4 cores, double L2 cache, and higher graphics frequency, still holding to 6W TDP. I guess nothing will justify the much higher price of N3700.

The things they wrote about the GPU performance looks promising, doesn't it? If it is almost on pair with the i5-4210Y and much stronger then N3520, it should be theoretically be perfect for our purposes, at least I hope so. I really hope in a few weeks time we will have a sample itx board.

And there is also VT-x and BPT available!

This will be THE htpc/NAS killer build for those who prefer their own builds (like I do). Get a nice ITX case, add a PCIe SATA card (2-8 ports), drop in a picoPSU or a small DC board PSU, put in your drives 2,5" - 3,5", install Ubuntu Server + Kodi, and there you go

Do we benefit anything (especially on Linux) from the DirectX 12 and Open GL 4.2 support?

8 drives spinning in the living room?
Me thinks you haven't actually tried that