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Can you buy the board on it's own without Intel's case?
How is the noise of the fan when playing back files i.e. xbmc? It's a shame these companies can't borrow Apple's fan design as it really is quite amazingly quiet (but I guess because it let's it get so hot!!)
Not that bothered about 4k yet, but I'm guessing I will need to upgrade in the future for HDMI 2.0 (for 60hz) and HEVC GPU acceleration anyway.. but it would be nice!
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I see that NUC haswell is available in Central Europe. What is the US availability date? Wonder if the IB NUC will be closeouts.
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I'm just kidding about the IB being obsolete. I am sure that IB will be perfectly fine for HTPC use. I have a low end celeron for HTPC and it's doing fine playing mkv files. I am quite intrigued by the new Haswell NUC.
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Hehe, but whatever way you look at it, retailers don't know when they are getting the new haswell NUCs in (just look at amazon.com, only big retailer I've seen listing it). Intel refuses to give a reason for the delay and the best eta they give when asked is "sometime in November", which after the 2 previous etas doesn't hold much weight >.<
Anyway, once retailers know when the haswell nuc is coming there might some IB deals but I doubt there will be now when for all they know Intel could push the haswell nuc to 2014 at this rate >.<
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Intel is losing a massive market here. Put these kits on the shelves of local retailers, add a discount bundle of some memory+ssd, and they would sell. This is more computer than most people will need for the next 2 years, and is certainly better than buying a huge desktop. And of course ideal for HTPC.
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I'm not sure that an Apple Remote will work. For sure OE will support the standard MS/Xbox style media center remotes, or using one of those profiles with a universal remote.
There is now one retailer on Amazon showing that they have the Haswell i3 in stock (20 in stock) but I am very skeptical of that. Amazon had changed their own in-house pre-order from "1-3 weeks" to "as soon as available" a week or so ago which would normally mean they were expecting stock to arrive, but something must have happened because it still is not available.
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Sounds great, thanks for the update.