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Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by mikeash »

sliverstorm wrote: post #164
jerf wrote: post #122

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"server boxes are far faster, cheaper and greener. Worse, it's an un-upgradable device to buy and throw away." How many of these devices would you have to buy and throw away to match the environmental material footprint of even one 1U rack-mount server? They're tiny . Orders of magnitude matter. (Similar effect: However "disposable" USB flash drives may superficially seem, compared to the floppies they replaced they…

Floppies are plastic and vinyl. Flash drives require an entire foundry worth of heavy metals and exotic compounds. I doubt it is the clear win you think.

The flash drive is a teeny portion of the entire foundry, though. And plastic is hardly benign to make.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by robertfw »

ultrafez wrote: post #272
vidarh wrote: post #226

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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 de…

It's not really an excuse to waste more resources though. Saying "this only wastes a tiny amount of resources compared to this other thing" isn't justification to waste it anyway.

agreed. baby steps!

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Post by ctdonath »

eitally wrote: post #258
_b8r0 wrote: post #233

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I was a little sad when I took mine apart to find that the chip was epoxied. I was hoping it would be something easily reprogrammable that I could give to my girlfriend to use at school (she teaches 3,4,5 year olds, so having a box that makes a noise when you open it is something that gets their attention).

After having received one from a vendor (Vidyo), I was looking into creating auto-playing video cards for my own company. It seems http://www.bigdawgspromo.com/ is one of the leading vendors, but their per-piece pricing is pretty hefty. Pretty neat stuff, and they are re-programmable.

Thanks for that link. For a long time I've toyed with the idea of a dedicated video card (as in business/greeting style); brings video to the self-containment of a book: immutable physical instance of content, including the reader/viewer. Still a bit aways from what I had in mind (think: little larger than a credit card, cheap) but well on its way.

Re: Intel Compute Stick

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Post by Roodgorf »

tankenmate wrote: post #235
_nedR wrote: post #159

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Ah. Thanks for the link. The 149$ version comes with Windows 8.1 Preloaded. The linux version is 89$.

The Linux version has only 1GB RAM and only 8GB onboard flash.

Sure, but Linux can also generally run much more efficiently than Windows. I think having Linux on the cheap version could conceivably be both a cut in licensing fees and also a way to make economy hardware specs viable.

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Post by maximilianburke »

digi_owl wrote: post #267
nailer wrote: post #244

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Really? PS4 and Xbone are AMD, and selling like truckloads.

Yes, it is an odd development. But then what is now AMD's GPU division, ATI, used to be THE supplier of console gaming GPUs. Sure, there are issues with the ARM world. But i kinda prefer the vibrant market there over the 2 1/2 horse race that is x86.

For Xbox 360 and WiiU, the PS3 had an nVidia GPU

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Post by rsync »

boyaka wrote: post #170
_nedR wrote: post #145

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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…

I got my Dad a NUC for Christmas...He hasn't really been using it yet. I think this might have been a more interesting and simple gift, wish it came out in time. I did get to play with the NUC because I wanted to have it all configured and ready to use. It was interesting to see how they got all of the components packed in and I was impressed by the performance. Main issue I had was graphics support, because I wanted…

"I got my Dad a NUC for Christmas...He hasn't really been using it yet."

I never understood why he did that.

It was a good NUC and he needed a good NUC. If he had used it or even honed it, or took it out of his pocket and looked at it -- that's all he had to do.

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Post by wilhil »

greggman wrote: post #192
_nedR wrote: post #145

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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…

I was forced to use NUCs for a project. They were under powered for me. All I needed to do was draw 5 fullscreen quads at 1920x1080 but all they could handle was 4 fullscreen quads at 1280x720. I'm sure they're great for some things so YMMV

To be fair, that is a big requirement... Loads of mid to high end graphics cards from just a few years backfail at dual QHD screen.

I power 2x 1920x1080 screens off of a NUC and am very happy.

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Post by Someone »

Alupis wrote: post #278
_nedR wrote: post #145

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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…

When I was in the market for a small low-power home server, I actually found the NUC's to be overpriced and under-performing. There's no i7 option, and they will run you about the same base price as an Gigabyte Brix which does offer i7 and/or i5's with more powerful graphics (and AMD APU options for very nice graphics if required). My home server did not require much graphics of course, but the i7 quad core is very m…

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview... has i7 "coming Q2 2015. Prodict details coming soon" Number of cores? That page doesn't say.

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Post by wuliwong »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #263
baldfat wrote: post #261

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> The Chromecast was a no-go I find that the Chromecast is the perfect tech item. It does a few things and does them extremely well. Part of the reason why it out sold and is out used more then any other media player.

I love my Chromecast but I think the major reason it has done well is the price. $30 is still fantastic.

It is an interesting comparison. You could buy 5 Chromecasts for the price of one of these Intel sticks, so it seems not a fair comparison. BUT, chances are you really are going to only use one or the other, so in that way it is necessary to decide.

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Post by lnanek2 »

damian2000 wrote: post #72

My 2c ... I see a problem with it not being able to fit into the HDMI ports on my TV ... due to the design of the TV there is only room for a compact HDMI cable (the port is located in a small recessed section). In this case I'd need to connect it with an HDMI extension cable, and would end up having to mount the dongle itself somewhere. Its probably better to buy an ultra compact PC such as an Intel NUC or Gigabyte…

Articles online say this will ship with an HDMI extender, which is pretty standard, honestly. Every one of these HDMI dongle computers I've bought like Chromecast came with one.
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