This PC-On-A-Stick Costs $74 USD

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Looking for a USB-shaped PC? One has already hit the market while a beefier, more costly offering is on the way.

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  • guardianangel42
    Of all the products I've ever read about on Tom's and elsewhere, this is one that I would absolutely NEED to see a benchmark for.
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  • technicalbass
    It's really quite incredible how far we have come in terms of scaling pc components further and further down in size. That amount of processing power was just starting to immerge on a consumer level in full size desktops just over 10 years ago. Now all of that in a device the size of your finger? Intense!
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  • lahawzel
    Let's hope availability of this is better than what Raspberry Pi managed. Some people were in queue for months.
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  • husker
    Keyboards, video displays, and power supplies (in some fashion) have been around for decades - long before the PC. Who would have thought 50 years ago that these would be the bulky items and the the computer itself would shrink in size to next to nothing.
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  • crewton
    That is amazing.
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  • GI_JONES
    The question we all want answered.... Can it play Crysis?
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  • razor512
    seems pretty good, hopefully it does not have the driver issues of the raspberry pi where the hardware acceleration is crippled and there is not enough RAM to run many applications that would otherwise run great on the low power device.

    A good use of a device like this will be as a media center system, especially if there is hardware acceleration for multiple formats. (probably make a custom case for it that can fit the drive and controller board from a 2.5 inch external hard drive, and the PC on a stick system's internals and turn it into a decent media center system)
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  • memadmax
    I wish... M$ would frickin shrink their OS to do crap like this....
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  • Shaun o
    This is only the first run of these devices, but if they take off in a big way we can expect they will just get better as the years go by. Crysis anyone !
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  • ddan49
    BF3 benchmarks or nothing. I wanna see how this compares to the Rasberry Pi, too.
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