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Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by icebraining » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:32 AM UTC

GrayParsec wrote: post #141

supernovae wrote: post #95

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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.

Tablets are great but are exceeding difficult to work on at the moment.

How so? Something like a Surface seems fine if you need a tablet for work.

I think the peripherals dock would be a decent solution for certain environments (schools, libraries, maybe hospitals, military bases, cruise ships, and such), but relying on public places to have well-kept and generally available peripherals would be folly.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by justincormack » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

seanp2k2 wrote: post #130

chrismsnz wrote: post #66

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> Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server. Unfortunately, general purpose hardware and operating system needs a fair amount of juice to route and inspect 1gbps of traffic. Best performance per watt I've found is the Edgerouter Lite but that has dedicated routing acceleration hardware to achieve what it does with the little mips pr…

+1 for the ERLite; it's a MIPS62r2 Cavium Octeon with 512MB RAM[1]. With the latest firmware, it's running Debian Wheezy, and I've had no trouble with adding the normal Debian repos and adding things like Privoxy to it (though I suspect these would be overwritten in a FW update). With Privoxy loaded and being used as an HTTP proxy for my local net with the EasyList rules, it doesn't break about 5%CPU with 100mbit/sec…

I have a vague memory that FreeBSD does ship with the binary blobs for the acceleration, so pfsense might be doable. I did install FreeBSD on mine for a while, but you need some external setup to build packages as there isnt enough storage for the ports tree and no mips binary packages.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by Shivetya » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:40 AM UTC

I just love the idea of having the computer being a plug in accessory to my display. Small enough that where ever I go and a display is available I have my computer and data.

Now if it is topped up with good sync software so I can have the truly workhorse computer at work/home and take whatever partition of it I want I will be sold

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by icebraining » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:41 AM UTC

ohashi wrote: post #132

I wonder if you could hook this up to your computer and run it like a VM but it's just a whole computer you can use from your main machine?

Well, it has wireless, so you could just use it as a remote desktop.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by endeavour » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:43 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #177

simi_ wrote: post #175

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> It even has a cute unboxing experience (The box plays the intel jingle when you open it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjdyudYdIPc That's very cute, however if it's the box that actually plays the sound isn't it terribly wasteful, ecologically?

there are birthday card that do the same, it's very little extra stuff compared to the computer itself, I imagine.

A birthday card that plays the Intel jingle would make a pretty good gift for a geek :P

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by vidarh » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:44 AM UTC

dingaling wrote: post #212

asuidyasiud wrote: post #193

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It is completely irrelevant, ecologically speaking.

> It is completely irrelevant, ecologically speaking. How so? It makes the box unrecyclable; worse still, as soon as such an item is detected in the recycling plant it will often cause the whole batch of material to be rejected and dumped[1]. No-one has time to pick-through cardboard removing batteries and circuitry. [1] Source: anecdote from a colleague who worked in a 'recyclarium'. Contaminated material causes the…

From one of the comments above: "It's not the box, but a small plastic enclosure"

And while I sympathise, consider that this is part of packaging for a computer, where the manufacture of the computer itself will consume many times as many resources, and the power to use the computer over its lifetime will consume many times as many resources. With respect to the overall environmental impact of the purchase of that device, the inclusion of a device like that will be a rounding error.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by DigitalSea » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:45 AM UTC

This is fantastic. As a car PC enthusiast, this kind of device is going transform the car PC community once again. Up until now, small form-factor PC's have been somewhat unaffordable.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by ddeck » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:47 AM UTC

fidotron wrote: post #53

Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server. It's fairly interesting to note what it's not: Android or Chrome OS. I suspect Microsoft will do quite well out of this, especially in the digital signage market, anywhere which is reasonably price sensitive but if developer time and cost can be reduced then they get a lot of leeway. Still,…

>Hardware like that makes me yearn for one with no wireless and a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports to use as a firewall and server.

You may want to take a look at these:

http://www.hystou.com/products/fanless-computers/celeron-103...

It's small and fanless with dual gigabit ethernet ports. I use one with VyOS as a dedicated firewall/router/VPN client.

Disclaimer: I bought mine from a 3rd party seller (via taobao) and not that site, although I believe they are the manufacturer.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by vidarh » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:47 AM UTC

_nedR wrote: post #161

Sven7 wrote: post #155

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That is because their target customer has never been the end user. How many people with a smart phone have heard of Qualcomm?

Well. Intel has always pitched themselves to the end-customer. The 'Intel Inside', Ultrabook, etc., campaigns have all been so that the customer insists on an Intel device.

But that's not to sell to the end user, but to make the ability to put those Intel Inside etc. stickers on your product a valuable feature for OEMs when considering whether to buy from Intel or a competitor.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by vdm » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:48 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #63

pedalpete wrote: post #19

As the power increases beyond Atom processors, I think this will be very compelling. I'd love to be able to unplug a dongle from my desktop monitor at home, and plug it into a tablet sized device to use on the train, then plug it into my monitor when I get to work, or a hotel rooms tv screen, or the presentation screen in our office conference room, etc. etc.

Wouldn't that often just be easier if it were your phone, so you didn't have to carry multiple devices?

http://philip.greenspun.com/business/mobile-phone-as-home-co...