[Bjur]

A questions before buying Acer CXI model:

1. Is it really difficult to remove write protect screw from Acer model and is it really nessesary if using standalone Openelec?
2. Have someone tried madvr on windows with 2955u?

1) it is 100% necessary, you can't flash the firmware without removing the WP screw. It's not hard at all, just not as trivial as the other ChromeBoxes
2) I haven't seen mention of it on the forums here. But if it runs on a mobile (-U) Core i3, then you're probably ok. That said, I wouldn't buy a ChromeBox to run primarily as a Windows box

Thanks for the answer Matt. Have now bought 2 x acer cxi celeron haswell models so let's see how that goes. As far as windows goes it looks like HDMI audio now also works so I don't know why it should not run? However I guess I will try openelec first but Windows with Netflix looks like a nice deal to me.