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ChanceKJ:

That being said they should be good enough for anything leading up to Fifth Generation consoles and arcade games of the same era? Maybe not high end Vpin projects.

edekoning:

I only use it for Mame+HLSL and for emulators for the 3rd and 4th gen consoles (which is the 8-bit/16-bit era). My guess would be that the 5th gen (n64, saturn, ps1) would run just fine, but I don't expect the 6th to run well.

2084:

I must admit I don't understand the appeal of this.  For older games the Raspberry Pi works well is smaller and <10% of the cost.  For newer games it easy to find a refurbished USFF PC with a 3 GHz Core 2 processor, HD, and Windows 7 for about $150.  This may do a little better than the refurbished PC but once you add memory, HD, and Windows the NUC gets above $700!

ChanceKJ:

My guess is the Pi doesn't work with windows. Which is familiar to most.

Unstupid:


--- Quote from: 2084 on March 03, 2014, 01:04:58 pm ---I must admit I don't understand the appeal of this.  For older games the Raspberry Pi works well is smaller and <10% of the cost.  For newer games it easy to find a refurbished USFF PC with a 3 GHz Core 2 processor, HD, and Windows 7 for about $150.  This may do a little better than the refurbished PC but once you add memory, HD, and Windows the NUC gets above $700!

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The appeal of the NUC is not for everyone...  It's for someone who wants to push the envelope of small/powerful computing.  It's for someone who wants to take a computer, stick 3,000 games on it, put a flashy front end on it (hypersipn/mala), and cram it into a fightstick.  It's for someone who wants to make something kickass without a budget and without worry of how much it's going to cost. 

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