ASUS Chromebit and Intel Compute Stick to compete in OS on-a-stick niche
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 3:42PM 
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
PC hardware and operating systems have gotten so lean now and cloud computing has become so powerful that we will soon have entire PCs the size of a thumbdrive. With the ability to turn any display into a basic yet Internet connected PC, devices like ASUS Chromebit (above) and the upcoming Intel Compute Stick are squaring off in a race to put Chrome and Windows on as many non-PC devices as possible.
The ASUS Chromebit will retail for around US $100 and runs Chrome OS on any display with an HDMI port. Same with the larger Intel Compute Stick which will bring Windows to TVs and displays. Google and Microsoft are already duking it out in the low-end notebook and tablet market. Chromebooks may have dominated this segment for a few years and, as a result, have made serious inroads into the education market. But Microsoft is now offering various notebooks through its OEMs that run Office 365 apps with Windows 8.1 with Bing, which is a basic and non upgradeable version of Windows.
Reader Comments (1)
The Chromebit is ok but the specs are rubbish compared to the Intel Compute Stick (http://www.stickpcstore.com/stick-pcs/intel-compute-stick-windows-8-1-quad-core-2gb-ram-32gb-storage.html)... for example 16GB eMMC storage compared to 32GB in the Compute Stick (and the possibility of expanding to 128GB)!!!