It wasn’t long ago that we junked our home desktop PC and settled for the Laptop. New users have already bypassed the Laptop and headed straight for the Tablet. The new user suddenly has a very new genre of applications, some of which are platform dependent, but the successful applications always come out with multi-platform versions. The economics and the geography of the personal computer software have such drastic changes that the companies who were integrating the hardware looking at the future were totally thrown off the tracks. Take the netbook, it seemed such a wonderful device when it was conceived, but it looks so irrelevant today. The laptop survived on the corporate user’s workspace though mainly because of the inability to move out of legacy applications. However, it still worked as a device to login to their cloud computers. The other reason the netbook or the tablet didn’t much make inroads into the corporate or the adult users computing needs is that they were still slave to popular legacy operating systems and applications that were installed on their own device and not something on the web.
Well now in the year 2015 we have a new kid on the block, called the Intel Compute Stick loaded with Windows 8, which will win the last frontier in this war against the desktops and laptops. The new kid is the Stick PC. Yes, it’s a PC packed into a stick the size of a pack of chewing gum. Just stick it into the HDMI port of your TV or Monitor and voila! You have a PC in your hands. Cool, but where are the keyboard and the mouse? Oh, they can be connected over Bluetooth. And how about disk space? Well, there can be up to 32 GB of flash memory, and if you think you need more there is a slot for the micro SD card. Of course, you have Wi-Fi and USB ports too, to connect to the net. What more do you need? Operating System? Sure! No worries the Intel Compute Stick Windows 8 comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1 at the cost of $149 with a 2GB RAM and 32 GB storage.
The Intel Linux Compute Stick comes with lesser storage at $89 a piece. We are soon going to see people carrying their Personal Computers on their car keys.
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