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Google just introduced a whole new kind of Chrome OS computer—a dongle that plugs into any HDMI-equipped display. It’s called a Chromebit, and it isn’t your run-of-the-mill streaming stick. For under $100, you’re looking at a full computer that plugs right into your TV.
How is that possible? Well, it’s not exactly a new idea. Intel recently announced the Intel Compute Stick, a $150 HDMI dongle that does the same thing but with full Windows 8.1 on board. And Chinese companies have been selling Android HDMI dongle-computers for nearly a year, based on the Rockchip RK3288 processor. So now that Google’s rolling out Rockchip-based Chromebooks too, a dongle-PC was the logical next step.
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This does look like a nice small PC on a stick for $100 to use to browse the web, watch video, listen to music, and do other daily tasks.
I bet, someday these tiny PCs will be a HDMI plug instead of a small stick like how some USB flash drives, and Wi-Fi dongles are just a tiny USB plug with a small amount of plastic sticking out, so you can more easily plug and on plug them from a USB port.