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since when is this full-sized tower more attractive than this little HDMI stick they're both computers and the impossible standards set by the media all computers are beautiful and you're going to hurt the little computes text feelings it's a computer too and if you don't think so you can keep your scummy hands off of it non aggressively hit the like button down below if you'd like us to check out a video on a portable IPS monitor in the future freshbooks is the super simple invoicing solution that lets you get organized save time and get paid faster click now to learn more the definition of the Intel compute stick is actually rather simple it's an Intel based computer on a stick naturally due to its size it's not all that powerful but there are also two versions of it one of which was available now and the other of which is coming later depending on which model you get the stick will have some pretty major changes the first six unique items are Windows 8.1 with big put what they share is an intel atom z3580 phix an integrated single stream 802 11 BGN wireless connection Bluetooth 4.0 a microSD card slot and one USB 2.0 jack and the obviously required since it's an HDMI stick HDMI 1.4 a connector it's considerably bigger than your average USB stick it's more like four of them kind of stacked in a little square at one hundred three point four millimeters by thirty seven point six millimeters by 12.5 millimeters and it's powered through its micro USB jack which can be plugged into essentially whatever can push 5 volts in 2 amps over USB so a nice battery bank or what until expects you use the included wall wart with travel adapters why does it come natively with travel adapters well that leads us into usability until wants you to be able to take and use this thing virtually anywhere that you can use a computer bring it with you to on your travels and have a power adapter for whatever plug you really need to use bring it with you so that you can have a presentation and you don't have to have the classic fight of trying to figure out their crazy freaking computer plug it into the TV in your hotel room and then you don't have to deal with whatever is on their TV and you can watch or listen or do whatever the heck you want until it's a very business ii company and this is a very business ii product but that doesn't mean that it has to be I mean sure this thing is a very super easy solution for digital signage or a really affordable way to get workers hooked up to computers when they just need to do something simple like using the Microsoft Office suite maybe some other simple ish programs but for the home user that is looking for something maybe more advanced than the experience that a chromecast or Roku stick this could do the trick no it won't have the inherit ease of use that casting has but you can do more things with it so if that works for you then great in terms of gaming I wouldn't expect much the Wi-Fi connectivity is a little bit lacking with a single stream if you're going to be game streaming and the performance is a little lacking for playing games directly off the device so unless you stick to very basic games in both cases you're not going to have that great of a time there's loads of uses for this thing emergency computer you could keep it in your car or in your backpack and if your laptop and phone and whatever else dies you could plug this into any screen pretty much anywhere TV screen hotel room monitor in a library I don't know if that's legal don't hold me to that one you can plug it into pretty much anything and have your own computer wherever you really need to go that can connect to Wi-Fi networks and do a whole bunch of other really cool stuff or it can be a travel thing so it's not a like fallback it could be like I said going into hotel rooms playing it into TVs using it for presentations it could be use for school you can go into libraries and plug it into that monitor there so you can use the library's resources use their printers do all that kind of stuff but then you don't have to use a school computer you can actually use your own it's an interesting device in an interesting spot with value competitors like the chromecast and performance and competitors like the Nvidia shield it definitely has its work cut out for it and its value will be maybe a little bit hard to see because there is those really strong competitors but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its place in the market a whole windows 8.1 machine on a stick is super impressive what do you guys think thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed to hit that like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our affiliate code to shop on amazon.com buying a cool t-shirt that isn't my brother's fire hall t-shirt and direct monthly contribution through the community forum would help a ton as well now that you're done doing all of that you're probably wondering 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