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Thinking again:

Who wants a cheap HDMI stick that can turn any TV into a full Windows computer? Everybody, right? That’s what we thought. Oh god were we wrong. When Intel announced the $150 Compute Stick at CES, we figured it could become the ultimate miniature PC for all kinds of people. Too bad it’s terrible.

Theoretically, there are loads of things you could do with a computer this tiny. You could work from it, of course, or browse the web from your couch. Watch Hulu without a subscription. Stream games from another computer. My editor Sean Hollister was excited to load Steam on it, plug in an Xbox 360 wireless adapter, and play lightweight games like Nidhogg with buddies on a big screen without lugging a console around. I was dubiously optimistic I could turn the Stick into a Kodi media streamer, accessing videos from my desktop PC over my home network.

Do some of these things work? Sure. But using this under-equipped PC is a giant pain in the ass—to the point that it’s probably not worth it.
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The Intel Compute Stick, above everything else, is a failure of expectations. Intel’s website claims that “it’s ready to get to work or have some fun, right out of the box.” Not so much. The Amazon Fire TV is ready to have some fun right out of the box. Google’s Chromecast dongle is ready to go right out of the box. The Compute Stick is not. To get started, it needs things that aren’t in its box—namely a mouse and keyboard.


Intellectually, I knew going in that the Compute Stick wouldn’t come with input devices, but I didn’t quite grasp what that meant. Setting up the Compute Stick for the first time was a painful crash course in reality. When it tried to walk me through the Windows setup process (fun!) I rooted through my office for a spare mouse. Soon it needed me to type something, so I dug up a keyboard too. That’s when it suddenly dawned on me that I needed to have two USB devices plugged into a single port—and that I was screwed.

Okay, there are some other options. I could (and did) buy a USB hub....
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TeeEm TeeEm

TeeEm

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There is always some Wanker who is ready to complain and winge just like in the above post from CES because they didn't read the specifications which incidently are written on the bottom of the box.
The set up took me very little time which included my own personal settings on Windows 10. It worked perfectly from the start.
What do people expect for something costing UNDER $190 :? A 40" screen ? Well believe it or not it works very well on our 40" Sony TV. ( BTW. Retail Windows 10 OS only, on a Flash Drive is $169 )
Maybe a Quad Core Processor 2 Gig DDR-3 Ram Wireless LAN/Bluetooth 802.11b/g/n, BT4.0 with a power supply and a FULL VERSION OF WINDOWS 10 ................ OH ! .... Well what do you know, it's got those !
You'd have a bugger of a job fitting a keyboard and mouse in it's bloody box. It always amazes me how many people look for the negatives in anything, just look on WP for example. :poke

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