{"id":151223,"date":"2016-01-07T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=151223"},"modified":"2016-01-07T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T06:06:48","slug":"new-improved-intel-compute-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/151223-new-improved-intel-compute-sticks.html","title":{"rendered":"New, improved Intel Compute Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has unveiled its latest Compute Sticks &#8211; which feature better hardware than their predecessors, but also come with a higher price tag.<\/p>\n<p>The new Compute Sticks have Core M3 and M5 chips\u00a0&#8211; Intel&#8217;s\u00a0sixth generation Skylake chip architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Compute Sticks sport 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and USB 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>The Sticks also offers a matte plastic casing, and will ship with Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Compute Stick with an Intel Core M3 processor will be priced at $399 (R6,300). The Core M5 model will be priced at $499 (R7,900).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-151227\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Intel-Compute-Stick-1.jpg\" alt=\"Intel Compute Stick\" width=\"630\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Intel-Compute-Stick-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Intel-Compute-Stick-1-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Intel-Compute-Stick-1-640x372.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More affordable Compute Stick model<\/h3>\n<p>Intel also unveiled a more affordable Compute Stick, which features a Cherry Trail Intel Atom processor.<\/p>\n<p>It sports 802.11ac Wi-Fi, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and ships with Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Intel Compute Stick with an Atom x5-z8400 processor is available for $159 (R2,500).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on gadgets<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/150889-an-alarm-clock-which-wakes-you-up-with-smell.html\">An alarm clock which wakes you up with smell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/150783-polar-balance-a-complete-weight-management-system.html\">Polar Balance \u2013 a complete weight management system<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/150777-samsung-unveils-new-2tb-portable-ssd-t3.html\">Samsung unveils new 2TB Portable SSD T3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Intel Compute Sticks feature Core M chips, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and USB 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":151225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,34729,34899,131,34901],"class_list":["post-151223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-ces2016","tag-compute-stick","tag-intel","tag-intel-compute-stick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151287,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151223\/revisions\/151287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}