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What memory did you get? I wanted to wait until amazon had them in stock but I might give up and do the provantage thing.
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Hi all, I'm new to the forum. I noticed the discussion about the Bay Trail NUC and thought I'd chime in. I've used XBMC on several flavors of Linux and Windows on pretty much every incarnation of the NUC so far. I'm currently running Windows 8.1 and Linux Mint 16 (alternating back & forth for testing) on the Bay Trail NUC.
So if you have questions I'll try to help. If I can't help I "know some people" who I can reach out to. I post fairly frequently in the Intel Community (yes, I'm THAT JasonHoffman) but someone mentioned my name had popped up here so I thought I'd try my hand here.
For the record I am an Intel employee. However I was not and am not involved in the devlopment of the NUC engineering-wise. What I do is write about my experiences with it as a platform, and post ideas, solutions, and occasionally how-tos.
So, fire away...but be nice.
Jason
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2014-01-28, 05:43
(This post was last modified: 2014-01-28, 05:53 by JasonHoffman.)
"But I do agree, it is kind of a dick move by Intel not to support Win7 on this device. Ultimately I think it will cost them in unit sales, because a lot of people don't want Win8."
Windows 7 support is coming. They tried to have it in place before launch but these things can get complicated on the back end. Windows 7 support requires bios changes and a graphics driver. I believe the bios changes are being tested right now and the driver is almost done. I'll try to get a time frame to expect it but it is coming.
Believe me I know how frustrating it is to not have Windows 7 as an option, and the last time I talked to the team it was one of their top priorities.
Jason
"Hopefully they will have a BIOS update to fix Legacy booting and DTS-HD bitstreaming soon."
BIOS 0021 for the Bay Trail is available for download from downloadcenter.intel.com. It fixes several known bugs. I've been working with it and it also fixes the issue where the BIOS shows "0GB" for RAM.
Jason
All, I'll take a look at the openelec issue and see what I can get to work.
Jason