Quad-core Bay Trail chips have enough pep for light desktop work, HTPC duties, and even casual gaming, so having one squeezed into something roughly the size of a Chromecast is pretty appealing. Similar ARM-based Android sticks do exist, of course, but they can't run Windows.
I am unsure about pricing. Does the article mean that they are 70 USD each or does $1-70 mean something in how the Chinese write numbers? If these are legit I would bet I could get a decent return on buying a single lot for 35,000.00 USD.
Did anyone else notice that the first micro USB port has the DC power symbol next to it? So this device can also run off something like a cell phone charger and isnt limited to a full sized port?
One of these plugged into all the televisions in the house to stream movies from my home server/gaming system would be nice. Could probably handle game streaming, too.
Did anyone else notice that the first micro USB port has the DC power symbol next to it? So this device can also run off something like a cell phone charger and isnt limited to a full sized port?
Yeah, the tablets with a screen can run off one, so not too sure what the big USB port is for to be honest unless it is to be plugged into a tv or something.
Yeah, the tablets with a screen can run off one, so not too sure what the big USB port is for to be honest unless it is to be plugged into a tv or something.
Um...
That is a HDMI port. It plugs directly into your TV like most android HDMI sticks.
Then there is a standard USB port along with a micro usb port. There is also a mirco usb port for power, which can ether be plugged into a adapter or your TV's usb port. There also looks to be a SD card slot.
Honestly this device can be really awesome.
I have a dell venue 8 pro, so I already know what the chipset can provide. IMO this device would make one hell of a HTPC. With windows and no doubt full ability to passthrough DD/DTS, I really want one.
Hoping this will cost around $100 once it hits more of a consumer level, as I would have no problem paying that.
In addition to being available with different CPU-and-memory combos, the device comes with 16GB or 32GB of internal flash storage. Otherwise, all the versions have identical specs: one HDMI output (male), one Micro SD slot, dual Micro USB 2.0 ports, and both 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0. I see what looks like a full-sized USB port on one edge, but it's not mentioned on the official product page. That page does, however, indicate that the system can run Android, Windows 8.1, and Linux.
Awesome! I replaced a dead 775 motherboard+e5700 in my girlfriend's son's computer with an Asrock Q1900M, and it's a pretty nice little setup. I mostly just bought it out of curiosity, but shoved a GTX 460 in it for his light gaming, and it's really not too bad at all. Similar power (less GPU, of course) in this very small form factor will be massively useful around our house.
That would indeed be really amazing. They list you can do casual gaming on the device itself considering this baytrail will most likely be throttled versus the normal version so it would give even less than half the performance of mullins. And I doubt that any game would run 1080P on a gpu 1/3th the strength of that in a Beema SoC. You have to play very casual games like bejeweled to actually have a good time playing. But perhaps Left 4 dead 2 will run on 720p at 30fps
Great for streaming to a TV though but I'm not sure how well it would handle the decompression I guess well because most my old rigs do good.
If I understand things correctly, I can purchase this, hook it up to a monitor via its built-in USB hub, connect the HDMI cable and basically have an all-in-one monitor?
Hm, it should run every console emulator up to ps1 at full speed, but probably choke on ps2 right? I'm having a hard time trying to decide the smallest device I can hook up to a TV that runs all emulators including PS2. An Intel NUC might not even be able to do it.
Hm, it should run every console emulator up to ps1 at full speed, but probably choke on ps2 right? I'm having a hard time trying to decide the smallest device I can hook up to a TV that runs all emulators including PS2. An Intel NUC might not even be able to do it.
An Intel m-itx board with a decent quad would do the trick...there are a few cases that allow you to mount it to the back of a monitor using VESA mounts or whatever. I think that's about as small as you can go for what you need at this point in time.
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