[mythtv-users] Asus unveils dirt-cheap Chromebox desktops with Haswell chip

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This could be interesting:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/04/asus_chromebox/
>
>
> Yeah I also saw an article on Ausdroid -
> http://ausdroid.net/2014/02/05/asus-unwraps-their-chromebox-plans-coming-in-march-in-three-versions/
>
> They don't have any infrared built in from what I can see so how would
> people generally set up a remote control on these? Have a USB infrared
> receiver? I actually tried that once and it turned into a nightmare so I
> went back to a serial receiver which seemed a lot easier for some reason.
> Perhaps it was just an awkward USB receiver I'd bought off eBay, but it's
> made me wary.

same as anyone else uses when their pc doesn't have a built in IR.
Which is most pc's.

Personally I prefer these:

http://rtr.ca/sapphire_remote/