**The Ultimate Mini-Boss - Intel's Compute Stick - Available for Pre-Order Now! **

[littlepuppy]

These look great... personally will steer it till a more feature rich / slighty more powerful one appears, I think they will be fun but lacking overall as it stands.... but a great direction to go in..

 

[Gibbo]

I was amazed I could play quake 3 online at 1080P smoothly, impressive bits of kit.

 

[oweneades]

IT has a usb power point so your tv could power it or you can plug it into the adapter to the mains.

USED one it can just about play quake at 1440p

Doesn't handle counterstrike source very well but should steam stream nicely.

Will be definitely adding one to my TV downstairs

Considering I can run BF2 on my Toshiba Encore (same basic SoC) without and issue I would be suprised if it couldn't run Quake TBH.

 

[pdaboy]

Nice idea. Shame it doesnt have an ethernet port for lag free steam streaming.

 

[lamboman]

Spotted these in the store moments before seeing this thread, clever stuff!

The biggest question jumping into my fuzzy head right now is, who are Intel aiming this product at?
Those simply wanting internet access and basic office packages in a space saving, large USB stick size?

As quite a few others have said, those who want a more powerful alternative to a Chromecast, but also businesses who only require minimal power for office work, browsing etc, who previously would have bought a cheap PC bundle and would like new computers but want to recycle all the useful parts (peripherals and display).

The alternative to this a few years back would have been a display with something like those compact Acer Atom machines mounted on the back on the desk.

 

[233]

think I've just found my new plex box for my tv,

fantastic looking bit of kit

 

[chippy08]

Will let others buy first just incase its not too good.

 

[snakefood]

Gotta admit, this does look pretty sweet any scope on a release date at all?

 

[Simon Belmont]

Oh I want one of these

 

[TALON1973]

Will keep an eye on this . Looks very interesting

 

[MatsyLR]

Wonder how these will perform as a kodi box? if you cant use them as such
Surely you could just load kodoubuntu onto the linus one and go to town?
As long as u have your stuff networked should work fine.

 

[TheLegendOfMart]

You can use Openelec as well I think.

The quad core atom in this can play 1080p Bluray remuxes fine (full bluray without menus) as well as rips, they can play some 4K but its hit and miss depending on complexity and they can only play back 720p HEVC/H.265 unreliably.

They are a decent alternative to your Fire TVs and other Android media players with the added bonus of being able to run full windows apps.

 

[waspy88]

I might be able to get rid of my mac mini..

Assume this does 1080p mkv with ease

 

[Glaucus]

About time someone big made these.
Now MS just need to jumps back on board and get windows media centre back into development.

 

[-Mike-]

Saw these on hexus. I fancy one for steam streaming too!

 

[dacads]

Didn't realise OCUK were selling these, I made a thread in SFF will update it with thee purchase links

For me it's an attractive solution for streaming sports, movies etc

 

[OracIe]

These look potentially very handy, price is excellent too - considering a windows update license is £99.99!

 

[JasonM]

Over time these will become more powerful with more storage and memory. 10 years from now where someone would use a budget PC, they will just purchase these off the shelf.

In the end the PC market will only be servers, workstations or higher end gaming computers.

 

[Protoype]

I'm a bit out of the loop here but can the windows version be formatted for linux? as it seems odd that the linux version has lower spec.

 

[RJC]

Looks interesting, might invest in the Windows one when it get launched.