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Hi I bought these a couple months back as an interim solution until I had my house wired for Cat 6. They allow you to run ethernet across cable tv lines. Work great and I was impressed by their performance. Everything is included. More details on the product...

How do you manage your passwords? On a piece of paper?

Just got my NESN 8TB order in. Both were White Label EMAZ drives :( Seems the true Red's are drying up. I have Corsair CX 430 PSU which is about 5 years old so I guess I'll need to fix the 3.3v pin. Anyone have a good tutorial on that? I hear buying a SATA III extension and clipping one...

How much better is this than my i5-2500k? Where will I most see the difference?

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If you have a Harmony Smart Hub you're golden as it uses Bluetooth which can communicate very well with the base model Shield. If you have something like Harmony 650 then you're gonna need either the Pro or simply get a USB IR receiver for the base model (like a FLIRC).

Yes - storage and Pro also comes with IR receiver on the unit.

The living room HTPC is dead. The Shield is a rock solid powerhouse in a cute little package that just works. Everything is beautiful and slick. Kodi flawless. Plentiful apps if you want them, including things like Spotify, Youtube, Netflix. Light to medium gaming is possible. Well...

Been into HTPC's for a while. Thinking of dumping them for the Shield as reading good things about it. But the Shield no longer has built in IR receiver. How would I control it with a Harmony Hub? I prefer to have one remote that does it all (TV, Cable, Kodi, AVR) so I'll need to continue...

Can you summarize what kind of user would see real benefit from upgrading from 8GB to 16GB? Is this just for heavy gamers or video editors, etc?

Kodi is perfect for HTPC enthusiasts, super customizable and tons of beautiful skins. Also a huge third party add-on community which adds features/functionality for most everything you can think of. Haven't used Plex but not sure it can do all that. Seems like a more simple interface with...