E-tailers begin taking pre-orders for the Intel Compute Stick
ARM had the whole PC-on-a-stick market to itself not that long ago, but that changed in October when a Chinese company began selling what was an otherwise ordinary looking HDMI dongle, save for one glaring oddity: the iconic "Intel Inside" logo. Soon Intel itself joined in the fun, announcing the Bay Trail-powered Compute Stick at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in January. That device now has a release date.
It is up for pre-order from Newegg and Amazon — and possibly a few other e-tailers — with the former listing the release date as April 24, 2015. However, the vendor selling it on Amazon won't have it in stock until May 5.
The palm-sized device will be available in both Windows and Linux flavors, both of which will come with an Intel Atom Z3735F processor (Core M version in the cards), HDMI output, full-size USB 2.0 port, microSD card reader, microUSB port (for power), Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, and Bluetooth 4.0.
Back in January we were told that the $149 Windows 8.1 with Bing-running model would ship with 2GB of RAM and 32GB inbuilt storage, while its Ubuntu-running brother would be limited to half that memory and storage. The Newegg listings, however, show the same amount of RAM and Flash storage for both variants. This is in all likelihood an error because the specs listed on other sites are in line with the original announcement.
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