[movie78]

For just Kodi use Apollo Lake or the i3 NUC is more then enough.

@movie78 have you had problems with the Skylake NUCs?

I will keep my Skylake NUC as main platform. Kaby Lake is bound to have some problems with the LPSCON chip in there and that has not been implemented in the Intel i915 DRM drivers yet (maybe it's in the nightlies now).

No, I have the AsRock Kaby Lake.

Ok. Just wondered since you said you where tired of returns What have returned that you weren't happy with?

Intel Hardware devices that I have returned and some are just personal reason.

Don't like

Dell 3050 very slow and simple 1080p file were very choppy
Intel NUC i3 Skylake if I can remember the 3D picture did look great and also I couldn't get the lipsync to work with my settings(subjective)
MSI Kaby Lake I don't know if it was driver issue but every time I start playing 4K files in Kodi when I hit stop the size of Kodi just shrink to the left corner of the screen, Maintaining the resolution was changing after reboot or 4k playback and I was unable to get 3D MVC to work, maybe because it only had 1 HDMI port with 2.0 specs.

Like

Intel i3 4010 NUC
Intel DN2820/2830
And the AsRock Kaby Lake