[zillion42]

Hello Kodi TV forum,

so, I'm getting a 100mbit Internet connection the day after tomorrow, I have a Bravia KDL40ex725, and I have some terrabytes of movies, of which the fewest are full HD, except some. I used to watch my movies from an old core duo laptop that sits below my TV. It bothers me, mainly its fans, and I am giving it away. I cant throw it away, so I decided to send it to friends in India who are as excited to get my old hardware as I would be if the last best thing I had was a pentium 4.
Now, my TV doesnt support what is nowadays called 4k nor my media does, but nevertheless I was trying to buy something that equips me for the future, I was literally pulling my hair out, these last few days, sifting through all the info provided here.

EDIT: I want to use my box as a NAS too, so gigabit ethernet and usb3 was essential for me.
EDIT3: I couldnt care less about wifi, since I have proper cat5 cables everywhere

I was seriously eyeballing an android 4.4 system with the new RTD1195 vs older RK3288 or generally one of those random Chinese alpha chipset "things" (M-195, Eweat 902, MELE X2000, UyeSee T1H, maybe the VidOn Box or even the Zappati 4k player to name a few) mainly for its price and promised value ratio.

Long story, short and I guess you all know where this would lead, I bought an intel NUC i5 with 8 GB ram and a SSD after comparing with a chromebox.

No patience for experiments and frustration really.

I will probably mostly run openELEC on it, but have it dual boot win8 also.

So all I wanted to say is thanks a lot for this thread, it helped me a lot in the decision making process. Aswell as these threads.
EDIT2: the wiki was also very helpful: http://kodi.wiki/view/Devices

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=204918
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=202924
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=207004

Happy viewing.