How Stick PCs will Change the Future?

You are on a vacation with your family out in a secluded place. You are sitting on the beach relaxing, and suddenly you get a call from your boss who tells you that you need to finish some transcripts urgently because of an emergency situation back home.  You don’t have your laptop with you and no matter how powerful your Smartphone is; it still is a phone. If only you had your trusty desktop with you right now. What do you do? You go back to hotel room, take out the small pen drive sized device from your bags small pocket, plug it into the HD TV in your room and voila you have your desktop in front of you. This is what having a stick PC will feel like. 

The latest technology in the market right now is the device called sticks PC. These small pen drive sized devices pack what your standard desktop has into 11 cms of tech that you can carry anywhere in the back pocket of your shorts anywhere you go. Most of these devices weigh less than 40 grams and are not even 12 cm long. Stick PCs have been in the market for a while but normally went unnoticed because of the shabby hardware they have and the buggy Android patches that usually run on them. But recent times have changed it with many tech giants taking an interest in this technology with loads of potential. 

One should not go to the size of these windows stick PCs as they as pack enough punch to help you do all your day to day tasks with ease. Most of these devices are powered by Intel Atom Quad core processors and 2 Gb of Ram which is more than sufficient to help you edit your documents, browse the internet and even perform multimedia tasks on the go. They also come with an onboard storage of up to 32 Gb that can be extended via Micro Sd Cards and all the latest connectivity options like WiFi b/g/n. All you have to do is connect these devices to any HDMI enabled display you have, and it’ll turn them into fully functional personal computers.

Intel, among many other big companies, is set to launch its sticks pcs running both Linux and Windows called the Compute stick. These Intel Linux and Intel Compute Stick for Windows are soon set to hit the market with many other windows stick PCs from various companies in this year.

The Future of Computers-Stick PCs

People in the geekdom have been talking about the death of the “personal computers since a long time. The sales of the personal computers have been declining slowly even when they are becoming faster, and more powerful while the sales of compact devices like smart phones, laptops and tablets has been increasing. The future of tech looks to be heading in a direction where everything is not only getting more powerful but also more compact. PCs are called personal computers for a reason. 

They are stable, powerful and “personal”.  Everybody has one. But the future of PCs looks bleak. At least the future of PCs as we know them. A new kind of PCs has been making ripples in the ever-changing and growing computer market. The next generation of Personal computers, the stick PCs or better known as PC on a stick. These computer sticks are not small pen drive sized devices with a Personal Computer fixed inside them. These mini PCs on a stick are not only small but also have enough power to help you do your day to day work like internet browsing and editing documents, as well as heavy multimedia tasks such as image and audio editing.

 

These slightly larger than USB memory stick devices can be plugged into any HDMI display to turn your PC on a stick into a fully functional PC. Most of these devices come with a GB or 2 of RAM, alongside a quad core processor and have inbuilt storage of up to 32 GB which can be extended using micro SD cards. Not only this but most of these devices also have all necessary connectivity options including Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. Various tech giants are soon going to enter the stick PC market with a number of offerings that will run a variety of operating systems ranging from Windows 8 to Linux and Android. Intel is set to lead the bandwagon with its Windows 8 stick PC that is all set to launch soon.