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  • morrisiriga - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Error in the first paragraph - "The new NUC-like systems are powered by Intel’s Core i5-7100U/i3-7200U CPUs featuring the Kaby Lake microarchitecture..."

    Should be i3-7100U and i5-7200U.
  • prisonerX - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Also the table is incorrect, it has two HDMI ports and one Displayport.
  • acme64 - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Does the hdmi do CEC?
  • cerberusss - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    So with Kabylake, we get hardware-accelerated YouTube on all platforms and browsers?
  • Kakti - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link

    Kabylake has hardware accelerated encode/decode for h.265. It is browser (and video source) agnostic, so yes it'll work with YouTube or a locally stored HEVC file.

    Offtopic, but has anyone tried playing a 4k file on a Kaby Lake U system? I tried playing a few free 4k video clips on a Skylake U Surface Pro 4 when they first came out and it was terrible...completely unable to playback the videos. I'm wondering how much of that was the lack of hardware acceleration and how much was simply the relative weakness of the U processor I was using (believe it was an i5-6300u). Believe the video was from LG to demonstrate on their TVs.
  • Xajel - Sunday, December 4, 2016 - link

    HTPC ? no, the size, design & features does not match an HTPC...

    I think manufacturers stopped making a real HTPC designs a while ago, they should look like an actual set-top boxes ( blu-ray players, AV reciever, etc... )

    Any HTPC enthusiast will wants a good design with good features and compactness. some might prefer multi HDD's bay ( 4x 3.5" ) to serve as a server also. and maybe as well as a Plex Media Server all in one.
  • LuckyKnight - Monday, December 5, 2016 - link

    Where is the Intel branded NUC?
  • Unton - Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - link

    Could you advise me please,
    Im looking for NUC pc and choose two favorites:
    This model and Zotac Zbox CI543
    Does this model make some noize ?
    It important because nettop will work 24 hours near my bed.
    Zotac is fanless and I guest its absolutely quite, but has older processor and video.
    Please help me to choose.

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