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alxlwson

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So, I don't need much. I travel quite a bit for work and have an extremely demanding physically and mentally taxing job. When I'm out of town, I really just require about 20 minutes of Pr0nHub and the rest of the night is whatever is on T.V. or some light gaming. I find that Rise of Nations (an old favorite) helps to relax. So does Diablo 2.
I have no doubt that D2 will run nicely at 1080p on a compute stick or a brick. However, RoN has a little extra tax to it. Name me a super cheap and super portable device to plug into hotel TV's.

Thanks :)
 
Using a Raspberry Pi 3 could net you some good low end gaming. Or you could go for one of the MiniPCs with Intel CPUs in them. They're not crazy expensive & might cost around the same as a compute stick for better performance.
 
My only Grip about the Computerstick it could break very easily a Mini PC might be better for you cause it's just that Mini PC or a Intel Nuc. You might have better response with applications using something with a little more power.
 
You could get a gaming laptop. I've got an MSI Ghost Pro and it's awesome. It's thin as hell and with the NVIDIA 970M, it performs great.
 
alxlwson said:
So, I don't need much. I travel quite a bit for work and have an extremely demanding physically and mentally taxing job. When I'm out of town, I really just require about 20 minutes of Pr0nHub and the rest of the night is whatever is on T.V. or some light gaming. I find that Rise of Nations (an old favorite) helps to relax. So does Diablo 2.
I have no doubt that D2 will run nicely at 1080p on a compute stick or a brick. However, RoN has a little extra tax to it. Name me a super cheap and super portable device to plug into hotel TV's.

Thanks :)
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Yippee38 said:
You could get a gaming laptop. I've got an MSI Ghost Pro and it's awesome. It's thin as hell and with the NVIDIA 970M, it performs great.
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There's a few video's on Pr0nTube ... I mean YouTube about this.

The compute sticks have a hard time keeping up with just streaming Steam (it's not even processing the game) let alone actually natively gaming on it. You might get away with Flash games or stuff from the 90's, but that's it.
 
bigdogchris said:
There's a few video's on Pr0nTube ... I mean YouTube about this.

The compute sticks have a hard time keeping up with just streaming Steam (it's not even processing the game) let alone actually natively gaming on it. You might get away with Flash games or stuff from the 90's, but that's it.
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So NUC it is?
 
Thanks, everyone. I want to reiterate that I need the cheapest and most portable solution for playing Diablo 2 and Rise of Nations. 1080p and 720p as this will be only used when I'm on the road for work. I can't carry another laptop with me, as I already carry three of them, none of which are my own.
 
alxlwson said:
Thanks, everyone. I want to reiterate that I need the cheapest and most portable solution for playing Diablo 2 and Rise of Nations. 1080p and 720p as this will be only used when I'm on the road for work. I can't carry another laptop with me, as I already carry three of them, none of which are my own.
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If that is true your work is stupid lol. Only inspector gadget needs 3 laptops.

Buy a 99 dollar intel stick, test it, return it if it doesn't work. This would make much more sense than asking about it on a hardware enthusiast site.
 
Verge said:
If that is true your work is stupid lol. Only inspector gadget needs 3 laptops.

Buy a 99 dollar intel stick, test it, return it if it doesn't work. This would make much more sense than asking about it on a hardware enthusiast site.
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I don't think you've ever been a drive tester in the telecom industry...
 
Verge said:
Can't run VMs or something? Seems awfully inefficient
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Can't speak for OP, but based on my experience working with telecom drive testers, they're often using experimental devices without mature drivers and specialized software (i.e. Ascom TEMS). There are many occasions where, for whatever reason, a particular notebook just doesn't want to cooperate with the device, and so they would switch to another notebook that would work better. Often when doing field testing in telecom, you work in the maintenance window (12-6 AM of the market time zone) and you don't have a lot of time to troubleshoot tertiary issues, so it's just easier to switch machines.
 
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