For the past few years Chinese companies have been cranking out tiny sticks that you can plug into
a TV to run Android apps. They look sort of like USB flash drives, but they have an HDMI connector where
you’d normally find the USB connector, and they’re a bit chunky for a flash drive.
Under the hood, these little guys have the guts of an Android phone or tablet which means they
typically have ARM-based processors. But now at least one company is manufacturing a version with an Intel
Atom Bay Trail processor.
That means it should be able to support Windows 8.1 as well as Android, Ubuntu, or other operating
systems.
A vendor on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba is selling the Meegopad Intel Quad Core donglefor
$70 per piece or less… but you need to order at least 500 units to place an order.
Update: You can now order an individual unit from AliExpress for $110, but you’ll have to tack on
another $15 for shipping to the United States.
In other words, that’s the wholesale price. The retail price will likely be a bit higher — but it shouldn’t
be long before we start to see devices like this show up in retail channels.
I thought the Zotac ZBOX PI320 pico I’m testingthis week was tiny for a desktop Windows computer
(because it is), but these new sticks could change what we think of as a Windows PC
For the past few years Chinese companies have been cranking out tiny sticks that you can plug into
a TV to run Android apps. They look sort of like USB flash drives, but they have an HDMI connector where
you’d normally find the USB connector, and they’re a bit chunky for a flash drive.
Under the hood, these little guys have the guts of an Android phone or tablet which means they
typically have ARM-based processors. But now at least one company is manufacturing a version with an Intel
Atom Bay Trail processor.
That means it should be able to support Windows 8.1 as well as Android, Ubuntu, or other operating
systems.
A vendor on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba is selling the Meegopad Intel Quad Core donglefor
$70 per piece or less… but you need to order at least 500 units to place an order.
Update: You can now order an individual unit from AliExpress for $110, but you’ll have to tack on
another $15 for shipping to the United States.
In other words, that’s the wholesale price. The retail price will likely be a bit higher — but it shouldn’t
be long before we start to see devices like this show up in retail channels.
I thought the Zotac ZBOX PI320 pico I’m testingthis week was tiny for a desktop Windows computer
(because it is), but these new sticks could change what we think of as a Windows PC
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For the past few years Chinese companies have been cranking out tiny sticks that you can plug into
a TV to run Android apps. They look sort of like USB flash drives, but they have an HDMI connector where
you’d normally find the USB connector, and they’re a bit chunky for a flash drive.
Under the hood, these little guys have the guts of an Android phone or tablet which means they
typically have ARM-based processors. But now at least one company is manufacturing a version with an Intel
Atom Bay Trail processor.
That means it should be able to support Windows 8.1 as well as Android, Ubuntu, or other operating
systems.
A vendor on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba is selling the Meegopad Intel Quad Core donglefor
$70 per piece or less… but you need to order at least 500 units to place an order.
Update: You can now order an individual unit from AliExpress for $110, but you’ll have to tack on
another $15 for shipping to the United States.
In other words, that’s the wholesale price. The retail price will likely be a bit higher — but it shouldn’t
be long before we start to see devices like this show up in retail channels.
I thought the Zotac ZBOX PI320 pico I’m testingthis week was tiny for a desktop Windows computer
(because it is), but these new sticks could change what we think of as a Windows PC
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