2014-07-29, 18:34
Okay, that is very good to know and seems like a viable option.
except.... if I can't power it on via IR with my expensive home theater remote it doesn't do me any good.
Clearly I'm in the minority on this though.
When I looked into this cost-wise the price delta was not much between the NUC and the Chromebox and since then price on i3 NUC has come down. I just paid $259 a piece for several of them. You can get an SSD to run OE (boots in under 5 seconds) for about $32 and RAM for $20. Price wise if the delta is $50 I would still pay that for the integrated (and very good sensitivity) IR.
With my last PC I drilled out the enclosure and put in an IR sensor that worked with the mobo to boot the device. It was a huge PITA because the IR sensitivity was poor (you had to point straight at it), sometimes it would power on when I was controlling other devices... and it did not play well with my IR extender solution (Xantech).
Nuc has fixed all of that. Quite happy with it.
except.... if I can't power it on via IR with my expensive home theater remote it doesn't do me any good.
Clearly I'm in the minority on this though.
When I looked into this cost-wise the price delta was not much between the NUC and the Chromebox and since then price on i3 NUC has come down. I just paid $259 a piece for several of them. You can get an SSD to run OE (boots in under 5 seconds) for about $32 and RAM for $20. Price wise if the delta is $50 I would still pay that for the integrated (and very good sensitivity) IR.
With my last PC I drilled out the enclosure and put in an IR sensor that worked with the mobo to boot the device. It was a huge PITA because the IR sensitivity was poor (you had to point straight at it), sometimes it would power on when I was controlling other devices... and it did not play well with my IR extender solution (Xantech).
Nuc has fixed all of that. Quite happy with it.
