Had I done this I probably would have discovered that everything just works, except for the Bluetooth and WiFi. It probably would have looked something like this: And a short time later I probably would have seen something like this:Īnd perhaps then I would have installed all my software I had before, including EyeTV 3 and had a faster, smaller and much better Mac Mini running all the things the 2010 did. But if I had I would have used a combination of this guide, mixed with this one. Now I’m not saying I actually did this, mind you. I could search for a TV experience I was happy with on Windows 10, buying all new hardware and hoping for the best…or…I could install macOS on this machine. The next evening, fresh and spritely after a day at the office, an evil thought crossed my mind. Also Elgato at some point sold off that part of its business to another company that seems to be running their products in maintenance mode. At this point it was past midnight so I gave up and went to bed. It turns out (and perhaps this is a surprise to only me) that watching TV isn’t that popular with the kids anymore, because literally nowhere had them. No big deal, I told myself, I’ll just wander down to my local retailers and pick up a more modern USB TV dongle. I bet some of you out there are fans of them, and that’s fine, but I felt like I was in a horrible alternate reality universe compared to the program I was used to using: EyeTV from Elgato. Also all the various PVR programs I tried had interfaces only a mother could love. I eventually found drivers that seemed to run it, but it didn’t work that well. It turns out my almost decade old USB dongle (EyeTV Diversity) isn’t that well supported. So how did the NUC running Windows 10 go? Very admirably: it did all but the terrestrial TV part. Is able to use VPNs and Torrent clients to download very import Linux ISOs.Allows me to watch terrestrial TV, as well as pause, record, skip etc.Runs iTunes and can play various TV and movie content that I’ve already purchased from Apple.Plays online content like Netflix, YouTube, various online catch up TV services, etc.My requirements for this machine were quite specific so I set about verifying everything I wanted to do would work: Windows Update automatically found drivers for all the bits of hardware in the NUC and before I knew it we were up and running. It even comes on a USB stick these days which is handy, since this thing is physically smaller than a CD/DVD. Installing Windows was also surprisingly quick and easy. You just flip the NUC over, take off the base and pop both in. Putting in the hard drive and RAM was a breeze. It was interesting (though not surprising) to see just how cheap RAM and SSD drives are when you don’t buy them from Apple. I decided that half the fun was picking those parts myself, so I picked up 2x8GB RAM sticks and an M.2 drive from my local PC retailer as well as a copy of Windows 10. By default Intel NUCs come without a hard drive and RAM, but you can order them pre-configured from places like this with those things and an OS installed too. Ports on the front! Coloured ports! I was excited though, this was going to be a fun project. The second thing that struck me is how un-Apple like it looked. If that iPhone 7 above doesn’t give you an idea, here it is sitting on top of my old Mac Mini:
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