2014-04-22, 21:57
I have an i5 box with win7 and another with openelec. The intel boxes are more powerful and flexible, no doubt, but here are the negatives IMO:
- Cost of the os (if win7)
- Not as easy to load and search Amazon and Netflix
- Power and heat
- Not the stability of an appliance
While I really like the nuc, my main issue is relegating Fire TV to a secondary box. It really depends on your needs.
To me, the pluses of the fire TV box are:
- It has never crashed or hung on me once...solid as a rock
- Voice search on Amazon
- Very quick start times and great resolution on both Amazon and Netflix
- XBMC is new on this box but look what we have already
- If xbmc ever hangs or crashes it is very quick to restart with a force stop and re launch
- Small, quiet, cool, cheap, very low power
- Works well with mythtv live tv/pvr and playing online content on my NAS
- Very user friendly for non-techies
I will be keeping my nuc, but for me, this will hands down become my primary box
- Cost of the os (if win7)
- Not as easy to load and search Amazon and Netflix
- Power and heat
- Not the stability of an appliance
While I really like the nuc, my main issue is relegating Fire TV to a secondary box. It really depends on your needs.
To me, the pluses of the fire TV box are:
- It has never crashed or hung on me once...solid as a rock
- Voice search on Amazon
- Very quick start times and great resolution on both Amazon and Netflix
- XBMC is new on this box but look what we have already
- If xbmc ever hangs or crashes it is very quick to restart with a force stop and re launch
- Small, quiet, cool, cheap, very low power
- Works well with mythtv live tv/pvr and playing online content on my NAS
- Very user friendly for non-techies
I will be keeping my nuc, but for me, this will hands down become my primary box