Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:17AM from the why-not-all-the-fingers dept.

angry tapir (1463043) writes Intel is shrinking PCs to thumb-sized "compute sticks" that will be out next year. The stick will plug into the back of a smart TV or monitor "and bring intelligence to that," said Kirk Skaugen, senior vice president and general manager of the PC Client Group at Intel, during the Intel investor conference in Santa Clara, California. They might be a bit late to the party, but since Skaugen mentioned both Chromecast and Amazon's Fire TV Stick, hopefully that means Intel has some more interesting and general-purpose plans.

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Re:more power by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-20 10:36 · Score: 3, Informative

Get a core i5 NUC..
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
I always liked 'full sized' PC's myself, but the NUC can't be beat for some things, and is more than enough for 90% of all 'normal' computer users.
Plus..
When someone is all cranky about having computer issues it is so nice to just walk over to them, pull out this little thing, swap it and just bring their pc back to shop to re-image/repair.