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I picked up a NUC6CAYS a few months ago and so far so good--for me it's the perfect entry-level HTPC in a box. The barebones kit is only $150, but for $225 you get a bit of RAM, eMMC, and a full Windows 10 Home license. I bought the full kit for the license alone, as I already had spare RAM and an older SSD lying around.
There were some initial HDMI firmware issues that have since been resolved (it uses an LSPCon DP1.2 to HDMI 2.0 chip) and the little Celeron chip is surprisingly fast (no hyperthreading but 4 real cores). Even though the GPU shows as an HD Graphics 500 series part, the media block is nearly identical to Kaby Lake (full VP9 and HEVC 10 bit decode @ 4K.) I have it hooked up to a 65" Samsung JS8500 at 4Kp60 with no issues thus far.
Only problem now is finding content...I've dabbled with Kodi but haven't found many sources to stream 4K HDR (how do I even know if I'm outputting in HDR?)
There were some initial HDMI firmware issues that have since been resolved (it uses an LSPCon DP1.2 to HDMI 2.0 chip) and the little Celeron chip is surprisingly fast (no hyperthreading but 4 real cores). Even though the GPU shows as an HD Graphics 500 series part, the media block is nearly identical to Kaby Lake (full VP9 and HEVC 10 bit decode @ 4K.) I have it hooked up to a 65" Samsung JS8500 at 4Kp60 with no issues thus far.
Only problem now is finding content...I've dabbled with Kodi but haven't found many sources to stream 4K HDR (how do I even know if I'm outputting in HDR?)