2014-07-29, 18:26
(2014-07-29, 18:21)voip-ninja Wrote: For me personally I didn't want to deal with Chromebox because it had a slower CPU and it didn't have integrated IR that could power the device off and on. Price-wise it's not a bad deal for someone who is okay with dealing with the whole root/dual-boot thing.
the chromebox is available with a Haswell celeron, i3, or i7
I understand the lack of built-in IR, but having the receiver external gives more options for location - since it doesn't need to face out.
the Chromebox doesn't have to dual boot, it can run OpenELEC (or any other linux distro) by itself, and cold boots in ~6s. The hacking process is well documented, and I've scripted everything for the noobs. No UEFI crap to deal with. And the firmware/BIOS is open source, so issues are able to be fixed a lot faster than with the NUC. It's pretty damn stable right now.