Intel offers "... Pre-installed with Windows 8.1* or Linux, ...". "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi
Are you talking about Windows 8.1 or Linux?
Intel Compute Stick
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Re: Intel Compute Stick
#242This 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 initi…
Looks like they just got a version bump http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nuc-broadwell,28344.h...
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 initi…
> 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?
The thing to do is to convert it into something like 'equivalent driven miles' and then calibrate your outrage to that number.
Re: Intel Compute Stick
#244This 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 am of two minds about Intel. Lately they have been producing some fairly interesting products. But at the same time they have a virtual stranglehold on the x86 ISA.
Really? PS4 and Xbone are AMD, and selling like truckloads.
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#245Can a malicious display install a rootkit on the device? If there's USB access, this seems like an avenue worth exploring...
It can via DP (make a DP connection that's actually Thunderbolt, flash the firmware) but that's on OS X - see http://bgr.com/2014/12/30/mac-os-x-thunderbolt-hack/.
And this DP connection isn't Thunderbolt, it just does DP.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
Check out the Intel Atom Avoton and Rangley SOCs. Nice x86 cores, ECC, crypto acceleration, VT-x, passive TDP, and 4x 1/2.5gbe or 1x 10gbe depending on the serdes. I only wish they had VT-d to get sr iov. If you really need more connectivity going the trident + Intel + cumulus white box switch rate has crazy throughput per watt.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does a cloud VM satisfy the 'intel stick' use-case? Where is the HDMI port? Also, since you're piling on every possible thing you can to make your case, you should also include the power systems of every networking device between your cloud VM and you.
What use case? They are already loads of TV tuner cards that are cheaper and exist.
The stick in question is not a TV tuner card. It is a full-fledged PC.
Re: Intel Compute Stick
#248This 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 initi…
Do they also have a laptop variant? Their Hardware is actually quite awesome - especially for Linux users
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#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14... $149
Ah. Thanks for the link. The 149$ version comes with Windows 8.1 Preloaded. The linux version is 89$.
What a price difference. Wow. Dozens, nay, hundred of hours learning Linux finally pays off. Seriously now, I'm really pleased to see that you can choose Linux and pay so much less. Of course on a relatively more expensive machine that difference isn't much, but it's certainly a stark difference on such a cheap device.
Edit: I see there's a hardware difference too. That's a bit of a shame. I wonder what corporate forces are in action here..
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#250So any comments on how is this better than a Raspberry Pi for example? You could all this using an arduino or a pi isn't it?