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the era of the stick computer is here in fact we're already into the second generation of these things because I have right here the second generation of Intel's compute stick this is a tiny Intel Atom powered full desktop PC and something that's about the size of a chunky USB key it kind of looks a little bit like a Roku stick or a firetv stick but it actually runs Windows 10 got an Intel Atom processor got 2 gigs of RAM it has the 32 gig solid-state storage space not a ton of space but enough for the operating system and a few other files and the idea is you just plug this into the back of let's say a television or a computer monitor you have sitting around and you can turn any screen into a Windows 10 desktop computer of course it's not quite as easy as all that you can't just plug and play first of all it might be hard to get the HDMI port in there's not a lot of clearance back there usually so it comes with an HDMI extender so you plug that in like this and then of course you need power put this in over here and then you end up with the cable and the wire you got to plug it in so you end up with something that's a little more jumbly looking but still you know fairly small as far as desktops go its model here is actually a tiny bit larger than the original version I have that right here and as you can see it's a little bit longer and that's because one of the major major major improvements in this version is they put two USB ports in it instead of just one one USB 3 and one USB 2 it's got a micro SD card slot in there in case you want to expand the storage which is useful if you want to download a bunch of apps or even you know simple games or movies and they also improve the Wi-Fi in this - 802 11 AC which would be good for you know streaming HD movies streaming HD video even playing some very very basic games I wouldn't count on it for too much more than that it's sort of a travel computer maybe you take with you when you're going on vacation plug it into a TV somewhere or if your business travels or put your secure powerpoints on here go to somebody's office plug it in play your stuff and then take the entire computer with you especially because suggested retail price on this guy at 159 dollars that is the second generation Intel compute stick you