Lenovo isn't the first to come out with this small-form-factor-type of compute stick --- Asus recently unveiled its Asus Google Chromebit dongle, while Intel released its Compute Stick earlier in ...

The story starts with a friend giving me an Intel Compute Stick. But the problems I had were not specific to that hardware, but rather how modern Linux distributions manage their start-up process.

It reminds us a bit of the "stick PCs" we used to have before. We don't really see those much these days, but a popular example was the Intel Compute Stick, which was discontinued in 2020.

enabling the broadest range of designs from the smallest Intel Compute Stick and All-in-One desktops to 2 in 1s, notebooks and the first-ever Intel Xeon processor for mobile workstations".

Last July, I took note when Intel released the Neural Compute Stick. It looked like an oversized USB stick, and acted as an accelerator for local AI applications, especially machine vision.