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The dongle is not a sweet spot for anything but low power embedded IOT stuff.

Modern desktop computing takes at least 25-35W of consistent power, and there's absolutely NO way to fit that power envelope in a dongle factor, unless you surround it with a block of solid copper.

> The true "next unit of computing" now would be something like a Chromebox the size of a Chromecast.

meh.



Good point. I guess it's more likely that a mobile phone "desktop mode" will displays some of what NUC's were used for: https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-8-leak-usb-displaypor...




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