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Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by GrayParsec »

supernovae wrote: post #95
nevdka wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NUC and Brix are also more powerful. I could almost see myself carrying one of these around like I used to carry around a USB memory stick. Plug it into any monitor or TV and I've got a computer. Not sure what I would do about mouse a keyboard, though.

Bluetooth mouse / keyboard

Having public places like schools, libraries and even the local Starbucks just have a stack of Bluetooth peripherals and screens whilst you carry your own computer in your pocket would suit so many people.

Laptops are great but clunky and not really solving the issue of computing without lugging it around. Tablets are great but are exceeding difficult to work on at the moment.

This will be a fine middle ground.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by xanderstrike »

auvi wrote: post #29

Lately Intel is trying to enter several device markets. Other than their core products they now have at least the following "compute" products: - Intel NUC - Intel Galileo - Intel Edison Now comes the Compute Stick.

The sad thing to me is that none of them are even remotely innovative.

The NUC is just a small form factor PC, exceptionally well executed but nothing new.

Galileo is a Raspberry Pi

Edison is an Arduino (sort of)

Compute Stick is a Fire TV/Android Stick

None of these could be really considered booming markets. ARM is eating Intel's lunch in the mobile market and Intel is shooting for the products that are least likely to turn a profit. If they could get a viable x86 phone on the market (or start making ARM processors) I think they'd be in much better shape.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by mdaniel »

bobbles wrote: post #7

"Bookmark this page, and then set a reminder to check in soon." this is how product announcements work these days? Would've been nice to have a bit of actual information.

I just wish there was a standard through which one could contact a server on a regular basis and ask for a well formatted list of updates from a logical channel. I think I would call it Atom ... no, that's too common of a name. I would call it really simple syndication. That's a much catchier name.

I wonder if anyone could use a standard like that, if such a thing existing and worked really well with a boatload of software.

Or, like one of the child comments said: send me an email. I'm not yet to the point of adding calendar entries to "check back soon" for a website.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by _nedR »

Jormundir wrote: post #135

This looks awesome. Finally a piece of tech I actually want, and by Intel of all companies. The bigger consumer companies have been shuffling their feet, releasing arbitrary, very closed off pieces of tech that I don't really need. I really applaud Intel for making the tiny little PC I've been wanting for media and linux tomfoolery. The Chromecast was a no-go, and now with an apple tv, I'm feeling a little too enclos…

I find that Intel makes quite a few great products and initiatives. They just don't market it as loudly as others. The Intel NUC (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html) is quite a versatile machine - smaller, better performance and value for money than mac minis, and more hacker friendly. It even has a cute unboxing experience (The box plays the intel jingle when you open it)

Then there are initiatives like the Intel Realsense cam (like Kinect), Edison, Moblin( which morphed into Meego and later Sailfish). Intel often doesn't get the credit it deserves - Contributing to open source and open standards, having intervened in the markets when someone (usually Apple or Microsoft) got too dominant or comfortable(That was what Meego, Ultrabooks, NUC was about). They certainly make the market more interesting.

I guess this one is aimed at Android TV, and meant to level the field for Microsoft and Linux-based systems.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by walterbell »

johnvschmitt wrote: post #127
rab_oof wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Without metric tons of engineering effort for a questionable use-case. The cheaper and more sensible options are: bigger laptop or run the workload elsewhere.

I appreciate your inputs, but IMO this use case is kind of inevitable. Yes, it's hard, and not quite doable today. But, there are millions of people working on making the components of this solution better. It's so attractive to carry around a computer in our pockets (our "phones") and it's really not much of a stretch to envision a near future where the thing in our pocket is our "local data/projects" that we can pl…

> Small local storage (working cache) with the rest in the cloud.

> Before you know it, it's going to seem archaic to have local working data on any other device than the one in your pocket.

These requirements seem to contradict each other. Do you want a thin/cloud client or offline compute?

Moka5 has an offline compute offering, http://www.moka5.com/2014/10/21/comparing-moka5-livepc-vs-vm...

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by bobbles »

bkurtz13 wrote: post #140
Jormundir wrote: post #135

This looks awesome. Finally a piece of tech I actually want, and by Intel of all companies. The bigger consumer companies have been shuffling their feet, releasing arbitrary, very closed off pieces of tech that I don't really need. I really applaud Intel for making the tiny little PC I've been wanting for media and linux tomfoolery. The Chromecast was a no-go, and now with an apple tv, I'm feeling a little too enclos…

How do you know how much it's going to cost? I don't see that information anywhere.

http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14... $149

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by iwince »

discardorama wrote: post #75
aditya wrote: post #40

$149 for Windows 8.1 version and $89 for Linux version, not bad. via: http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14...

... and the Linux version will have half the RAM (1GB instead of 2GB) and a fourth the storage (8GB instead of 32GB). I think I might pass on this.

I retract my earlier comment, this is cheesy at best Intel. Sad. Still kowtowing to the Gates regime.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by _nedR »

bkurtz13 wrote: post #140
Jormundir wrote: post #135

This looks awesome. Finally a piece of tech I actually want, and by Intel of all companies. The bigger consumer companies have been shuffling their feet, releasing arbitrary, very closed off pieces of tech that I don't really need. I really applaud Intel for making the tiny little PC I've been wanting for media and linux tomfoolery. The Chromecast was a no-go, and now with an apple tv, I'm feeling a little too enclos…

How do you know how much it's going to cost? I don't see that information anywhere.

I don't know, but since its form-factor and size puts in direct contention with Android Sticks (which go for about 60$), it should be priced similarly. Also it has to be cheaper than the cheapest Celeron-based Intel NUC(140$). So i expect the price should be somewhere in between.
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