The Desktop or Laptop processing power lost its significance with the advent of networking. Now network was your Personal Computer, and you had huge resources in your hand. System integrators have been pondering on the strategy to replace the desktop / laptop in the workplace.
The emergences of ideas like BYOD and Remote Desktop too have made a difference to the way the IT purchase and hire departments think. While they are deep in this debate the semiconductor industry have delivered the inevitable device; the computer on a stick.
Computer on a Stick
The evolution of the tablet format was inevitable. We have been witnessing the Moore’s Law in the field of computing for a long time. There seemed to be a brief hiccup after the Pentium chip. The lead has now been taken up by ARM processors and SOC (System on a Chip). The Laptop now packed a punch as far as processing speed was concerned without being afraid of losing its power backup. Cloud computing removed the dependence of processing power in the end user’s device. Users downsized their laptop to what was called Netbooks; this device has now graduated to the Chrome book. However, the constraint to the limitation on reduction in size of the end users device was mainly the display device and the power pack. It was inevitable that the industry will settle for the tablet PC. Well, its fine but if you still needed to use applications that need to be installed on your device what do you do.
The way forward was to make two assumptions. The first one was that the display and a set of keyboard and mouse are something that you would be having at home and office by default. The second one is that the power to your personal computing device will come thru the micro USB port. This made the designers remove the two constraints in reducing the size of the PC. What evolved is the stick PC. It is a device that looks slightly bigger than an internet dongle that has an HDMI port to stick it into a TV or Monitor. Let us check out the Intel compute stick, the device is powered by Quad CPUs and 2 GB RAM and an internal storage up to 32 GB. There is a provision for using Micro SD cards to add extra storage. The Keyboard and mouse connects through Bluetooth. There is a Wi-Fi chip inside to deal with networking. Voila! You have a computer on a stick that can run using Windows or Linux. The best part is that you can carry it on your car keys and use it anywhere as long as you have a display device available.
Usher in the New Age of Staying Connected
Don’t we hate it when we miss our computers, well our smart phones do work quite well for us but sometimes you just miss the power and the big screen display! And, now that we are so accustomed to handheld computing devices you ask how it is going to be possible. Well, we have an answer for you.
More Power to Those On-the-Go
You are always on the go; you work, you party and you travel. You like being connected, updating your social media status, you are the one to click pictures, view them and admire them, you shop online, write reviews, read reviews, stream videos, indulge in a little gaming on the side?
A Quad-core Stick PC - Does Technology Know Any Bounds!
Earlier developed computers were basically just simple models that can be used to do mathematical calculations. This was later found that various more operations can be performed by providing the computers with programming capability that increased the application prospects of computers manifold along the years.
