A computer stick is a single-board, palm-sized computer that resembles a media streaming stick (such as the Amazon Fire TV Stick or Roku Streaming Stick). They are sometimes referred to as compute ...

Intel's new Compute Stick isn't that hard to grasp: It's a computer... on a stick! Using one of its Atom processors, Intel managed to cram everything a fully functional PC needs in something the size ...

Who wants a cheap HDMI stick that can turn any TV into a full Windows computer? Everybody, right? That’s what we thought. Oh god were we wrong. When Intel announced the $150 Compute Stick at CES, we ...

Plug it into any HDMI port equipped screen and convert that device into a fully functional PC! The Intel Compute Stick looks like a long media streaming dongle or rather a large thumb drive that plugs ...

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You can run most of the applications that you are using as these Stick PCs are available with Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Ubuntu 14 and also comes with more traditional OS such as Android and Linux. The ...

I had high hopes for Intel's original Compute Stick, but it ended up being a massive disappointment. Sure, it was cool to have a fully functional computer the size of a few thumb drives. But it was ...

Our appreciation of mini desktop PCs is well-documented at this point. In the age of the smartphone and the two-pound laptop, the desktop PC is perhaps the least exciting of computing devices, but ...

A PC you can fit into the palm of your hand? That's been a pipe dream for most computer manufacturers. But it looks like Intel is setting up to change the technology landscape with its Compute Stick ...