I'm anxiously awaiting for Intel to team up with Justin Timberlake and offer us Compute in a Box.
Intel Compute Stick
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Re: Intel Compute Stick
#62Hardware 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,…
Microsoft made licenses for their OS's free for anything under 9 inches.
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#63As 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?
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#64$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...
That actually seems expensive for a device without a screen or input devices. I wish that Chromecast and Apple TV supported an open standard for streaming rather than everyone using their own proprietary standards.
AFAIK Chromecast uses DLNA underneath (which is mostly RTSP + mDNS discovery?).
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#65Very cool, but... I think the future is our compute power in our "phones" that work with ambient peripherals (keyboards, monitors).
Could we see people move from a phone to carrying two devices? One which is quite personal (phone, social, camera, etc) and one which is a little more generic (general computing device). I'm thinking about how most people would be reluctant to let their phone out of their sight, while they could also use a general stick that allowed tasks, work, etc.
Re: Intel Compute Stick
#66Hardware 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.
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 processor it has.
Closest you'll find is Soekris, ALIX or APU for a routing platform. A Beaglebone black makes a nice little box for lightweight serving on its own.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
That actually seems expensive for a device without a screen or input devices. I wish that Chromecast and Apple TV supported an open standard for streaming rather than everyone using their own proprietary standards.
AFAIK Chromecast uses DLNA underneath (which is mostly RTSP + mDNS discovery?).
It hardly matters what they use when you need a client certificate to be able to connect.
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#68I really hope they get a 90 degree adapter for the HDMI.
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#69Consider the use case suggested by the image on the copy i.e; on-screen projection of slides in a business meeting. Can this use case be met with a tablet/smart phone using a VGA adapter?
Re: Intel Compute Stick
#70Hardware 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,…
Microsoft made licenses for their OS's free for anything under 9 inches.
Not sure it applies to this, since it doesn't have a screen. Windows is used in a lot of embedded applications, and I think we still charge for that (disclaimer: unknowledgeable Microsoft employee).