Microsoft’s Soft Reveal of Its New PC Dongle


MicrosoftPcDongle031915The trend of bringing your PC to your living room is a thriving one. There's the Steam Box, which brings gaming, streaming, and media entertainment to your television. Then there's simple HDMI dongles like the Google Chromecast, Roku, and Mozilla Stick, that do the same thing just by plugging into the back of your HDTV. It's only natural for Microsoft to unveil an option, except this gadget does so much more, and it has Intel inside.

MicrosoftPcDongle031915-1It's an HDMI stick, yes. About the size of a regular USB flash drive, the 'dongle-PC' takes portability to an entirely new place by containing all the components of a Windows 8.1 computer inside of it. Because we only know general details, photos show it's made by Lucoms Daewoo, has an HDMI connector for a monitor, both a USB port for connectivity (mouse and keyboard), and microUSB for power, and finally a micro SD card slot for up to 64GB of storage. Internally, it is powered by an Intel processor, with 16GB and 32GB options for storage, and most likely 1GB or 2GB of RAM (to support the weight of Windows 8.1 requirements) (Slash Gear).

MicrosoftPcDongle031915-2This is a first for Microsoft, who says this dongle-PC will be “a future competitor in the PC market”. Pricing is unknown, and Korean availability looks like sometime this May, while other countries are still up in the air. If you're wondering about the almighty Windows 10 release, the dongle will most certainly be upgradeable when it's available.

Topics: Technology News Intel Microsoft Mini / Nano PCs

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