Want to convert your TV into a laptop with Chrome OS with a candy-sized stick ? Seems impossible!!! But it’s pretty simple after this new $100 device in market, all you have to do is attach Chromebit to any display with a HDMI port, and voila, you’ve turned it into a computer.
Asus Chromebit puts Google’s Chrome OS on a stick which will fit in your pocket. Google unveils a new type of device made by Asus, Chromebit which contains a fully featured PC in its candy size which uses the TV as its display, and wirelessly connects to a keyboard and mouse using Bluetooth.
This tiny little package contains a Rockchip 3288 Soc, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of e-MMC memory, a USB 2.0 port, 2×2 dual-band WiFi 802.11 ac support, Bluetooth 4.0, a Smart Ready controller and an ARM Mali 760 quad-core GPU.It’ll be available in either silver, blue or orange and will be out later this summer.
The first Version is developed by Asus but Caesar sengupta, the vice president of product management for Google also said that other companies will make their own version of Chromebit.
Think of the different use cases,” Sengupta said. “Think of an Internet cafe, where you have a monitor, you have a keyboard, and mouse, you’re stuck with an old desktop. It’s probably never been updated, pretty insecure. Think of a school lab, all the peripherals, but stuck to a desktop. Now you can replace that.”
The Possibilities of this device future is endless as you can use it in your home, schools,Internet cafe and any remote location without carrying your laptop to those places. Also provide the computing power for video screens in retail stores, airports and other locations is a vast application of this new device.
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