I have one that's sole purpose is to plug in to an old flatscreen at christmas time that gets put in front of the fireplace to play christmas fireplace scene on loop.
It really depends on what you are getting or looking for If you are into retro tech "new in box" things can be way more desireable than used things What Wade (Dankpods) is usually buying is stuff that wasn't gonna be good in the first place ("Can you believe nobody bought this?")
@singeslayer8367 The problem with NIB retro tech is that usually means it's also untested (particularly if it's sealed). And stuff like leaky capacitors and exploded batteries can happen even with a device just sitting in a box for decades.
I once sold an old phone to CEX. It had spent its entire life in a case with a screen protector on. I sold it in the original box, with all the official accessories it came with. They claimed to have found a scratch on it during testing and gave it a B grade. The next day, I walked past the store, glanced in the window, and saw my exact model of phone listed as an A grade. It was one of the less common models, so I very much doubt they had acquired another device with that exact spec in less than 24 hours.
Had one thinking it was a gaming PC but small. Naive me couldn't figure out why War Thunder couldn't run at movie graphics like my friends PC with a GTX 1080ti at the time
Lmao, sorry for laughing but i really chuckled, i remember when i was a kid and believed stuff like "download more ram". Those old scams made me learn how to install Windows, so when i inevitably screwed up the PC, i could fix it too, at least.
@vavra222Yeah no looking back it's funny to see my own confusion. That lead to me learning on my own about computers and now I've basically become the IT of my family.
Let me tell you, as someone who deployed some of these when I was working in I.T. in 2015, they are absolutely horrendous. We opted for Windows 8 because it performed better over Windows 10 at the time. All we were using them for was basically a way of putting some digital signage on some TV's around a university campus. This even proved too much for them with the things often crashing and rebooting. By default, they had macafee installed on the win 8 versions we had, which I promptly uninstalled because the things were just too weak to handle it.
OMFG I was just looking at these the other day and wondering if they'd be any use for anything... then this pops up. Finger on the pulse bruv. Nicely done. 👌
@ICanDoThatToo2 Yes... even some "Stick" Computers aren't gone, but everyone has only those lame N100 atom cpus on them or sometimes even worse... The thing is, those CPUs aren't powerful enough to be used a "normal" pc and that is the real problem in the end! A system on a stick with an arm cpu like for modern smartphone would be far more powerful with less energy loss.
Congratulations on buying what might very well be my compute stick which I traded into CEX not long ago. Mine was a 2015 model traded in box with that exact specification. I keep everything in the box when I own something 😅 I traded it because 2GB was a struggle it wasn't too bad for basic emulation.
@RetroSegaDev "server based mental health conversational agent" I feel sorry for whoever had to foot the bill for that nonsense. That sounds like a joke then I realise youre serious, the absolute state of modern university culture, lord save us.
@ShinzosRevenge Useful psychological data on how people interact with a program designed for therapy isn't something I'd call a joke. There's plenty of useful and interesting data to extract from that even outside of whatever the original intent of his study was.
Aside from the compute stick, That early windows 10 install looked so nice! (aside from that jam packed start menu). You were even allowed to open the web browser without going through about 30 different screens trying to make you sign in!
Brought me back to installing the first release of win 10. I wasn't a fan initially, but after a few updates they corrected some of the UI elements I didn't like. It's like installing base XP or 98, it's nothing like the OS after all the years of updates.
I just recently acquired 3 of these for my own tinkering, my BC-250 just walked in the door and I've been playing Steam on my Geekom A9 Max for the last couple of weeks. Thanks for covering electronics that I like and finding me new stuff to play with!
Honestly those Atom chips seemed impossibly efficient back then. I remember buying some el-cheapo tablet with an Atom in 2015 and being blown away by its capabilities... despite being so cheap and low power.
I remember in, like, 2015 Dell released a tablet with a quad-core atom processor. It was legitimately quite nice, but it was priced a bit high for an Android tablet at the time even though the specifications and build quality warranted the price, so people just didn't buy it. A shame. Once atom processors got to quad core on an OS that actually did multi-threading properly, they really did perform quite acceptably and their power consumption was only slightly higher than ARM processors, so they really were impressive for the time.
Same here, for some reason I didn't think it would be incredibly limited by it's size because it was from Intel, as if they magically couldn't release a slow, low power CPU, haha.
I remember when these things came out and I thought they were the future. I was all in on the idea that people would carry around a little computer and just plug it in where they want to work. That vision was clearly not meant to be, at all, but i think the product could still exist in 2025 with a N100, 8gb ram, and some NVME flash, preferrably not EMMC
N100 is actually decent. I have been using an N4000 for years now and am looking at N100 as a replacement. N4000 was honestly great though...it runs GTA 4, Borderlands 2, Fallout NV, etc. Has recent enough hardware video decoding. And is still considered low power after all these years at 6W. It is an HP Chromebook 14 converted to Windows 11, which is installed on a NVMe to WIFI M.2 adapter. I got the laptop for $70 about 7-8 years ago. I also did the matte to gloss display mod that used to be common. It even looks modern...very slim, Mac rip off styling. Nice keyboard and track pad. One of the best PC hardware purchases ever, imo. It even has 2 x USB C ports that both do charging, 65w charging out, and video out. Along with a 3.1 USB A. I have a USB C display and it can power the display and video out over a single USB C cable.
Can you please include Left 4 Dead 2 in your benchmarks, it's one of my favourite Valve games and i think it should run pretty well on a system like that.
We bought a lot of these. All were used for showing dashboards in the office that required some old Internet Explorer plugin. These were perfect for the job and ran for years without problems.
I actually have the exact same compute stick. I personally use it as a home phone call recorder with an adapter that sends all its data to a NAS, but outside of that, the compute stick is really good for one major thing: remote work. You take the stick with you, use Steam Link, PC Link, Android Link-pretty much anything where the processing is done on another computer-and this thing is nearly perfect because all it has to do is render the image and send commands back and forth. If that’s all you use it for, outside of bulletin board displays, digital signage, picture frames, and similar uses, it works great. Especially when you put Windows Lite or Windows Ultra Lite on it and add something like NetLimiter to block all the Windows callbacks, the device becomes surprisingly competent. You might even be able to convert it into a low-level Android stick. So these things are excellent for remote power and thin-network workstations, and not much else.
The reason the wifi is so terrible is becasue it doesn't run on a PCIe bus. The Atom Z3735 series architecturally is closer to an ARM SOC so it uses the same style I2C connection to it's peripherals. Except that in ARM SOCs the radios are built in. This x86 SOC needs to communicate over the I2C bus to its wifi hardware. And it's bluetooth hardware, you can cut the wifi performance in half roughly by using bluetooth at the same time.
I have the original win GPD with the Atom x8700 and just 4GB ram. With a lightweight Win11 it's surprisingly usable and crucially good enough for use remote gaming or for cloud gaming. The TDP is just a few watts which is bonkers
I would LOVE to see you test out a more modern stick PC like the Minisforum S100. I would love it so much I'd actually be willing to buy one and send it to you to test it out and compare it to the Compute Stick
back in 2015 i had the lenovo one. (still have it) i carried with in a small case with a tiny Bluetooth handheld keyboard and track pad, also a 2tb HDD with movies on it. i used it while in the navy and would connect it to various tv's to play my movies in any workshop.
I remember when I updated from 8.1 to 10 on release day and it was so nice, games even ran better. Now that same laptop struggles to do basic things on current w10
I bought one of these when they were new for basic web browsing and using Google Docs & Sheets on a TV. Even back then, it was unpleasantly slow for the most basic tasks. It quickly fell out of use as we introduced tablets into the home. It has sat in a drawer, unused, for many years. You now have me thinking about what I might use it for today. Perhaps for some retro gaming or as a client to remote into powerful desktop computers and display them on a big screen from the couch.
I had one of these running World Community Grid for a while basically just for fun. It was able to complete protein fold tasks but each job took like 3 days to complete.
got mine back in 2015 i still have it and its running 24/7.... installed linux on it and its running on my Bedroom TV to watch RUclips and Movies....... still works flawless
I fondly recall compute-sticks. I have a Lenovo one that I bought new, though I haven't used it in ages. Was able to run early builds of KSP on it, and it was no slouch in watching YT vids thanks to its hardware decoders still being supported.
Interesting stuff! I have been on the lookout for one of these myself, but as you said they're being sold for way too much usually. BTW (hehe), practically all Arch flavours have a 32-bit EFI thingy on the image, so you should be able to boot about all of them (like Manjaro, CachyOS and EndeavourOS). I wouldn't expect big boosts from a more 'lightweight' distro though.
i've thought about grabbing one of these with a lightweight linux system to act as a steam link for my big monitor in the living room, media pc, and light gaming with much older titles...then i remember i have a tiny little lenovo sff that easily does that and has much more oomph to do the local gaming.
I used to work in an office that had a TON of security, antivirus, asset tracking, app management, statistic reporting, etc... software as mandatory to run at startup on each PC. I would have HATED setting it up and supporting it if someone got tricky and wanted to have one of these setup as a digital signage screen or as a kiosk. It was bad enough when executives went against my advice and custom ordered tiny laptops with low powered cpus...
i got one of each model of the compute sticks, the higher end one is ok enough and uses the same processor as the gpd win 2 (at least one model of them) and can do some more modern gaming than the others as well as decent emulation, cool devices.
I have 3 of these from an old job were they were used for meeting rooms. I run them on the various flat screen TVs and I run ChromeOS Flex on them, which runs very well.
Another great video! Way back when Windows 10 was still new, we bought a Linx 7" tablet which also had the Atom Z3735 processor (the 'G' variant with just 1GB RAM). It cost an insanely cheap £55 (or there abouts). It came with Windows 8 which of course we promptly upgraded to Window 10 and it ran surprisingly well provided you didn't open too much at once. We used it a fair amount, mainly for content consumption or when out and about.
I have one that's sole purpose is to plug in to an old flatscreen at christmas time that gets put in front of the fireplace to play christmas fireplace scene on loop.
this amuses me greatly thank you
You could probably replace it with a USB stick, but if it already works then there's no reason to change things.
I mean .. it's cheaper than building an actual fireplace is it :)
Great idea!
Amazon fire stick and RUclips 😂
Truly a fire tv stick
I watch enough dankpods to know getting old tech brand new is never a good sign
This was probably the best experience you could get out of one, because it hadn’t had chance to degrade
It really depends on what you are getting or looking for
If you are into retro tech "new in box" things can be way more desireable than used things
What Wade (Dankpods) is usually buying is stuff that wasn't gonna be good in the first place ("Can you believe nobody bought this?")
Can you believe nobody bought this?
@singeslayer8367 The problem with NIB retro tech is that usually means it's also untested (particularly if it's sealed). And stuff like leaky capacitors and exploded batteries can happen even with a device just sitting in a box for decades.
Tbh I've watched probably like 100 similar* channels over the years and EVERY computer (or random GAMING thing) is a pain
I once sold an old phone to CEX. It had spent its entire life in a case with a screen protector on. I sold it in the original box, with all the official accessories it came with. They claimed to have found a scratch on it during testing and gave it a B grade.
The next day, I walked past the store, glanced in the window, and saw my exact model of phone listed as an A grade. It was one of the less common models, so I very much doubt they had acquired another device with that exact spec in less than 24 hours.
it was a B for buying and an A for selling :P
Would have went into the store and complained
@Randomness82 they have to get their profit margin in somehow ....
Dot from a UV activated pen next time... and shine the light through the window 😉
Had one thinking it was a gaming PC but small. Naive me couldn't figure out why War Thunder couldn't run at movie graphics like my friends PC with a GTX 1080ti at the time
Lmao, sorry for laughing but i really chuckled, i remember when i was a kid and believed stuff like "download more ram".
Those old scams made me learn how to install Windows, so when i inevitably screwed up the PC, i could fix it too, at least.
@vavra222Yeah no looking back it's funny to see my own confusion. That lead to me learning on my own about computers and now I've basically become the IT of my family.
@isjsjwifkdna9611 Yep, even though being the family IT guy is kind of annoying, at least i know my parents and grandparents wont get scammed.
Did you feel scammed?
@vavra222 I know its not accurate, but i like saying SWAP is basically downloadable memory. Even if it really isnt
Thanks man, a full decade since this thing was released, making me feel older than i already feel.
2015 was only 4 years ago, trust me!
Love how he throws the McAfee coupon away. 😂
Green Ham Gaming is a flashback 🥹
*Tomato store music intensifies*
Let me tell you, as someone who deployed some of these when I was working in I.T. in 2015, they are absolutely horrendous. We opted for Windows 8 because it performed better over Windows 10 at the time. All we were using them for was basically a way of putting some digital signage on some TV's around a university campus. This even proved too much for them with the things often crashing and rebooting. By default, they had macafee installed on the win 8 versions we had, which I promptly uninstalled because the things were just too weak to handle it.
What signage?
That ain't no budget build, that a budget stick
These videos are genuinely interesting and really well made.
OMFG I was just looking at these the other day and wondering if they'd be any use for anything... then this pops up.
Finger on the pulse bruv. Nicely done. 👌
the tea touching the R9 Nano box hurt
Ahh, my favourite show started
Wish intel brought back this, and giving it intel atom with alder lake architecture
i would 100% love a brand new one to control all my astrophotography gear.
Perfect device for Snapdragon chips to work their way into
@Javadamutti could absolutely see this happening. Hope to see stuff like that in the future
I guess these were too small. That market is now filled by the "mini PC" form factor, and they range from Atom all the way to Ryzen with GPU.
@ICanDoThatToo2 Yes... even some "Stick" Computers aren't gone, but everyone has only those lame N100 atom cpus on them or sometimes even worse... The thing is, those CPUs aren't powerful enough to be used a "normal" pc and that is the real problem in the end!
A system on a stick with an arm cpu like for modern smartphone would be far more powerful with less energy loss.
Congratulations on buying what might very well be my compute stick which I traded into CEX not long ago. Mine was a 2015 model traded in box with that exact specification. I keep everything in the box when I own something 😅 I traded it because 2GB was a struggle it wasn't too bad for basic emulation.
Mine was used for my PhD to test a JSP server based mental health conversational agent with older adults.
I think mine was in better nick having seen it close up now!
I would love to know what CEX gave you for it.
@RetroSegaDev "server based mental health conversational agent" I feel sorry for whoever had to foot the bill for that nonsense.
That sounds like a joke then I realise youre serious, the absolute state of modern university culture, lord save us.
@ShinzosRevenge Useful psychological data on how people interact with a program designed for therapy isn't something I'd call a joke. There's plenty of useful and interesting data to extract from that even outside of whatever the original intent of his study was.
I remember when having shadows in a game was a luxury
Gotta love these things even though they aren't good for much.
Aside from the compute stick, That early windows 10 install looked so nice! (aside from that jam packed start menu). You were even allowed to open the web browser without going through about 30 different screens trying to make you sign in!
Brought me back to installing the first release of win 10. I wasn't a fan initially, but after a few updates they corrected some of the UI elements I didn't like.
It's like installing base XP or 98, it's nothing like the OS after all the years of updates.
Should include morrowind and hl1 in the test suite
I just recently acquired 3 of these for my own tinkering, my BC-250 just walked in the door and I've been playing Steam on my Geekom A9 Max for the last couple of weeks. Thanks for covering electronics that I like and finding me new stuff to play with!
I just come here for the british dude's ramblings , they are very entertaining
Four cores at 1.6 gigahertz! It might be faster than a Pentium D!
Actually the CPU-Z performance he showcases is half than a Phenom 9600 (60 singlecore 230 multi) but at probably less than 5 % of the power.
But is it more powerful than a Core 2 Quad Q9550S?
Oh no he SPILLED THE TEA on tables 3:45
o no he made a mess
"Oh no, our table, it's boken"
He was too calm about it. I imagine he flipped and just cut it out haha.
Not the first time, just like he left the videocards sagging the poor PCI-E ports on the motherboard hahahaha
Honestly those Atom chips seemed impossibly efficient back then. I remember buying some el-cheapo tablet with an Atom in 2015 and being blown away by its capabilities... despite being so cheap and low power.
And then nowadays you have the Intel N100 with its TDP of 6W.
I used a tablet with an atom x5-Z8350 to play Minecraft bedrock while on holiday
the legend of Teclast
I remember in, like, 2015 Dell released a tablet with a quad-core atom processor. It was legitimately quite nice, but it was priced a bit high for an Android tablet at the time even though the specifications and build quality warranted the price, so people just didn't buy it. A shame.
Once atom processors got to quad core on an OS that actually did multi-threading properly, they really did perform quite acceptably and their power consumption was only slightly higher than ARM processors, so they really were impressive for the time.
The guard T-posing to assert dominance at 24.48
BB always saves me from the overwhelming infinity scroll of 2025
28:42 Fred the sausage mentioned
This is why i subbed to this channel for videos like this
I love how the usb hub is as big as the compute stick itself
i remember iowspecgamer's old intro of "in this video we're going to be getting gta v to run on the intel compute stick" x3
Remember these and always wondered about'em. Thanks for this.
Really wanted one of these back in the day
Same here, for some reason I didn't think it would be incredibly limited by it's size because it was from Intel, as if they magically couldn't release a slow, low power CPU, haha.
"Before the mini-pc craze this was your option" NUC was also an option at this time.
I found one in the thrash on my way to the doctor recently and it works so i have one now
i remember being excited about these for about a few days when they first came out and then I forgot completely they ever existed
I remember when these things came out and I thought they were the future. I was all in on the idea that people would carry around a little computer and just plug it in where they want to work. That vision was clearly not meant to be, at all, but i think the product could still exist in 2025 with a N100, 8gb ram, and some NVME flash, preferrably not EMMC
It would be cool if HDMI could provide power and it would simply be "plug and play".
I used 2 of these to run some big screen monitors to display alerts fro our NOC. Worked great.
I had one of these running folding@home during covid for over a year, still works today.
16:00 The waving of the stick over the water feature gave me anxiety.
Should try a Intel N100 stick next, apparently its the most powerful compute stick on the market
Yess
The N100 really shines on low powered servers.
N100 and N150 are really excellent chips
N100 is actually decent. I have been using an N4000 for years now and am looking at N100 as a replacement. N4000 was honestly great though...it runs GTA 4, Borderlands 2, Fallout NV, etc. Has recent enough hardware video decoding. And is still considered low power after all these years at 6W. It is an HP Chromebook 14 converted to Windows 11, which is installed on a NVMe to WIFI M.2 adapter. I got the laptop for $70 about 7-8 years ago. I also did the matte to gloss display mod that used to be common. It even looks modern...very slim, Mac rip off styling. Nice keyboard and track pad. One of the best PC hardware purchases ever, imo. It even has 2 x USB C ports that both do charging, 65w charging out, and video out. Along with a 3.1 USB A. I have a USB C display and it can power the display and video out over a single USB C cable.
Also...SCRCPY...any PC that can run that is more than useful. And N100 would be perfect for such a thing.
I wanted one of these so bad back when they first came out I thought it was the coolest thing ever
I love it so much when I open youtube and on the top of the page I see a Budget Builds video
Please never stop
I feel like those were used for restaurants to show a static image of the menu in its whole life until the TV has auful burn in and damaged backlight
Can you please include Left 4 Dead 2 in your benchmarks, it's one of my favourite Valve games and i think it should run pretty well on a system like that.
i remember these in like 2017 good lord it doesnt feel that long ago
most certainly probably get this a lot but you have a very comforting voice :)
thank you for the great video as always!
We bought a lot of these. All were used for showing dashboards in the office that required some old Internet Explorer plugin. These were perfect for the job and ran for years without problems.
To its credit these were neat for their time.
I’ve been in A&E for 7 hours now, thank you for uploading this video and making it more bearable.
Snapdragon x elite on one of these would be awesome. Along with some Bluetooth
I actually have the exact same compute stick. I personally use it as a home phone call recorder with an adapter that sends all its data to a NAS, but outside of that, the compute stick is really good for one major thing: remote work. You take the stick with you, use Steam Link, PC Link, Android Link-pretty much anything where the processing is done on another computer-and this thing is nearly perfect because all it has to do is render the image and send commands back and forth. If that’s all you use it for, outside of bulletin board displays, digital signage, picture frames, and similar uses, it works great. Especially when you put Windows Lite or Windows Ultra Lite on it and add something like NetLimiter to block all the Windows callbacks, the device becomes surprisingly competent. You might even be able to convert it into a low-level Android stick. So these things are excellent for remote power and thin-network workstations, and not much else.
The reason the wifi is so terrible is becasue it doesn't run on a PCIe bus. The Atom Z3735 series architecturally is closer to an ARM SOC so it uses the same style I2C connection to it's peripherals. Except that in ARM SOCs the radios are built in. This x86 SOC needs to communicate over the I2C bus to its wifi hardware. And it's bluetooth hardware, you can cut the wifi performance in half roughly by using bluetooth at the same time.
I have the original win GPD with the Atom x8700 and just 4GB ram. With a lightweight Win11 it's surprisingly usable and crucially good enough for use remote gaming or for cloud gaming. The TDP is just a few watts which is bonkers
i remember schools using the lowest spec models for digital signage
I should know this is like a jumbo fire stick
I really miss having CEX in the states. Was one of my fav stores.
we used these with a screen cloud setup to do menu's in business's back in the day. They could run off the usb port on a tv.
I would LOVE to see you test out a more modern stick PC like the Minisforum S100. I would love it so much I'd actually be willing to buy one and send it to you to test it out and compare it to the Compute Stick
I used Lenovo's model for YEARS as a media PC, to just stream video from my desktop lol
9:47 I had a couple of these until fairly recently. There’s a bug which means that if Bluetooth is enabled the WiFi acts up.
I have one that was given to me as a freebie from intel when I did some work with them
Honestly I would have liked to have heard the ramble about the Insider Previews and Windows 10
back in 2015 i had the lenovo one. (still have it)
i carried with in a small case with a tiny Bluetooth handheld keyboard and track pad, also a 2tb HDD with movies on it.
i used it while in the navy and would connect it to various tv's to play my movies in any workshop.
I have had one running basically 24/7 since 2016 or so, and it has been rock solid.
The part where you've been interrupted by the dog killed me HAHAHAHAHH😂😅
I remember when I updated from 8.1 to 10 on release day and it was so nice, games even ran better. Now that same laptop struggles to do basic things on current w10
I have 2 siting in a drawer used them just for kodi, was just going to chuck them
I bought one of these when they were new for basic web browsing and using Google Docs & Sheets on a TV. Even back then, it was unpleasantly slow for the most basic tasks. It quickly fell out of use as we introduced tablets into the home. It has sat in a drawer, unused, for many years. You now have me thinking about what I might use it for today. Perhaps for some retro gaming or as a client to remote into powerful desktop computers and display them on a big screen from the couch.
Are you me? I was looking for these for a while for the same reasons, haha
I know a guy in the US who has like dozens of these new in the box XD
Reminds me of my old tablet that ran a atom z3580
i was searching not long ago if there are new "stick PC's" and sadly no, i would like to see something like that with a N250
I had one of these running World Community Grid for a while basically just for fun. It was able to complete protein fold tasks but each job took like 3 days to complete.
wow dude i really envy your purchases. I have been trying to find a new one a reasonable price.
Having the bootloader locked is just beyond ridiculous.
You should also check out the compute card as well.
shout out greenham! bless his heart.
got mine back in 2015 i still have it and its running 24/7.... installed linux on it and its running on my Bedroom TV to watch RUclips and Movies....... still works flawless
I fondly recall compute-sticks. I have a Lenovo one that I bought new, though I haven't used it in ages.
Was able to run early builds of KSP on it, and it was no slouch in watching YT vids thanks to its hardware decoders still being supported.
I used to daily windows 11 on a 4th gen i7 through a m.2 ssd on a cheapo pcie adapter card using the clover bootloader, good times
I've one of those tablets with the same CPU in it and been using it with moonlight to stream my desktop remotely, works lovely for that
Interesting stuff! I have been on the lookout for one of these myself, but as you said they're being sold for way too much usually. BTW (hehe), practically all Arch flavours have a 32-bit EFI thingy on the image, so you should be able to boot about all of them (like Manjaro, CachyOS and EndeavourOS). I wouldn't expect big boosts from a more 'lightweight' distro though.
I used to have one of these. I loved it!
this is reminding me so hard that GreenHamGaming existed, huge flashback
Was that Transport Tycoon music?
Cool way to test different linux distros :)
For the GPU Drivers did you try 15.33.53.5161 from October 2020 since that is newest drivers for 3rd Gen and Bay Trail
I am looking at this knowing that if i watch it i end up buying it lofl
i've thought about grabbing one of these with a lightweight linux system to act as a steam link for my big monitor in the living room, media pc, and light gaming with much older titles...then i remember i have a tiny little lenovo sff that easily does that and has much more oomph to do the local gaming.
I just LOVE the ps1 style 3d rendering of the computer stick
Will be nice if new version is exist of this
Man, imagine installing that McAfee AV that came with it. With those specs, it would be a fun time I'm sure.
I used to work in an office that had a TON of security, antivirus, asset tracking, app management, statistic reporting, etc... software as mandatory to run at startup on each PC. I would have HATED setting it up and supporting it if someone got tricky and wanted to have one of these setup as a digital signage screen or as a kiosk. It was bad enough when executives went against my advice and custom ordered tiny laptops with low powered cpus...
I still have one of these! Although I have the inferior Ubuntu version with lesser specs.
Found my own Computestick about 2 weeks ago. It's the latest one with a Core m5. I was surprised it can run Widows 11 without any tricks.
i got one of each model of the compute sticks, the higher end one is ok enough and uses the same processor as the gpd win 2 (at least one model of them) and can do some more modern gaming than the others as well as decent emulation, cool devices.
I have 3 of these from an old job were they were used for meeting rooms. I run them on the various flat screen TVs and I run ChromeOS Flex on them, which runs very well.
Babe wake up Budget Builds uploaded
I have one of these and not even when they came out did they play video well. I ended up pretty much never using it
Another great video! Way back when Windows 10 was still new, we bought a Linx 7" tablet which also had the Atom Z3735 processor (the 'G' variant with just 1GB RAM). It cost an insanely cheap £55 (or there abouts). It came with Windows 8 which of course we promptly upgraded to Window 10 and it ran surprisingly well provided you didn't open too much at once. We used it a fair amount, mainly for content consumption or when out and about.
What I need is a compute stick with another HDMI port. My mother likes to play Solitaire, and watch a movie on a second monitor.