Sure, you can turn your dumb old TV into a ‘smart’ TV with set-top boxes and streaming sticks, but can it run Crysis? Sure you can now, with this, Intel’s new Compute Stick. Well, maybe not Crysis, but you get the idea.
Intel has crammed in a quad-core Atom CPU, 32GB of storage and 2GB of RAM, along with a USB port, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 support and a mini-USB connector for power into a portable device not much larger than a USB dongle. That’s already enough power to run Windows 8.1 apps on your TV.
But Intel is also saying that it may eventually launch a much zippier Core M version. The Windows version will run $149, and if that seems a bit much, a 1GB RAM/8GB memory Linux version is priced at $89. Both will arrive in March.