{"id":1356,"date":"2015-01-10T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2015-01-10T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T16:34:19","slug":"intels-149-compute-stick-turns-your-tv-into-a-windows-8-1-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s $149 Compute Stick Turns Your TV into a Windows 8.1 Device"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Turn an HDMI display into a Windows 8.1 PC<\/h3>\n<p>Intel already used the Consumer Electronics Show as a platform to introduce its newest 5th Generation Core micro-architecture (14nm Broadwell), but that\u2019s not all it wanted to show off. On a somewhat smaller scale,\u00a0<strong>Intel today introduced its Compute Stick, a $149 dongle that turns your HDMI display into a low-power Windows 8.1 PC<\/strong>. And though it may seem similar to media streaming devices like Amazon\u2019s Fire TV stick, you can do more with Intel\u2019s device.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/compute-stick\/intel-compute-stick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Compute Stick<\/a>\u00a0is powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F Bay Trail quad-core processor, at least for now \u2014 a future version could come with a Core M CPU inside. There are two versions \u2014 one that comes preinstalled with Windows 8.1 and includes 2GB of RAM and 32GB of flash storage, and a Linux variant with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. The Linux version runs $89.<\/p>\n<p>Both come with a microSD card slot to add more storage space, and both also sport a full-size USB port, micro USB, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11n Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s enough power here to for light productivity work, surfing the web, streaming media, and more. Whether or not it proves popular we\u2019ll have to wait and see \u2014 it\u2019s scheduled to be available in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn an HDMI display into a Windows 8.1 PC Intel already used the Consumer Electronics Show as a platform to introduce its newest 5th Generation Core micro-architecture (14nm Broadwell), but that\u2019s not all it wanted to show off. On a somewhat smaller scale,\u00a0Intel today introduced its Compute Stick, a $149 dongle that turns your HDMI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}