Asus Chromebit CS10 Brings Chrome OS To Any Monitor Or TV

[Lucian Armasu]

Asus announced the Chromebit CS10, which is an $85 Chrome OS device with a quad-core Cortex-A17 CPU, Mali-T764 GPU, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage, dual-band 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO Wi-Fi, and an HDMI and USB 2.0 port.

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[dstarr3]

It's amazing that these little finger-sized computer sticks are more powerful than the computer I replaced, like, three years ago.

 

[randomstar]

compare to intel compute stick? seeing similar devices for not much more with BT, x86 quad core, 32 gb storage and SD slot, etc , with windows 8/10 full os and office365..

 

[fixxxer113]

It's amazing that these little finger-sized computer sticks are more powerful than the computer I replaced, like, three years ago.

Then you didn't have a very good computer 😛

 

[ZolaIII]

It's on pair with Intel compute stick in performance (real usage like Web browsing). It's still better solution for Linux and Android & it can serve very well as Multimedia center thanks to very well support in Kodi. It can decently handle Android games. Pricing could have been & lower but still you get a lot bang for the bucks that is if you don't use it with Chrome OS.

 

[amk-aka-Phantom]

It's on pair with Intel compute stick in performance (real usage like Web browsing). It's still better solution for Linux and Android

Why is it a better solution than the Compute Stick, which uses an x86 chip and therefore allows you to install all the main Linux distros and not just ones that have ARM builds?

Then you didn't have a very good computer 😛

Word. Even an Atom netbook is more powerful than this.

 

[ZolaIII]

It's on pair with Intel compute stick in performance (real usage like Web browsing). It's still better solution for Linux and Android

Why is it a better solution than the Compute Stick, which uses an x86 chip and therefore allows you to install all the main Linux distros and not just ones that have ARM builds?

Then you didn't have a very good computer 😛

Word. Even an Atom netbook is more powerful than this.

Well you will have only one or two Ubuntu builds with this rock chip to start with but for regular user that's enough. It's much more capable/supported for video decoding. Even open drivers for MALI are bad it's still better GPU (T760 MP4). On Android it wins in every way. On stick it will overheat & throttle much less as it's more efficient.

At the end it's not slower than Atom at least for what it's intended to be used.
http://www.omgchrome.com/asus-c201-chromebook-rockchip-benchmark-processor-benchmarks/
& this whose before native NaCl suport for ARMv7.

 

[dstarr3]

It's amazing that these little finger-sized computer sticks are more powerful than the computer I replaced, like, three years ago.

Then you didn't have a very good computer 😛

I did not. lol

 

[bliq]

Why is it a better solution than the Compute Stick, which uses an x86 chip and therefore allows you to install all the main Linux distros and not just ones that have ARM builds?

What makes it better is that if ChromeOS meets your needs, its far lighter and will be more performant than full blown windows or linux. The key phrase being "if ChromeOS meets your needs", which applies to probably 95% of all computing needs and hence users. I've deployed ChromeOS pretty widey among my family and even for my needs, as a systems engineer for a cloud computing company, ChromeOS is sufficient for probably 80-90% of what I do (though I use a MBP for that last 20% due to not wanting to carry multiple devices).

 

[H2Yu]

Would be a good idea for old TV upgrades, at least, with YouTube in large screens is real wonderful!