Thursday, July 10th 2014
Meet Tango PC, The Desktop Computer That Can Fit in Your Pocket
After raising over $300,000 during a hugely successful crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo earlier this year, the team behind the Tango PC has taken to Kickstarter to raise additional funds to support retailing their PC you can fit in your pocket. Not only is the Tango PC ultraportable, it is a formidable office as well as entertainment machine with mid-core gaming performance on traditional Windows.
The Tango Kickstarter Campaign got fully funded just a day ago, and with only a day or so more to go, the consumers still can back their campaign in return of not just the Tango PC, but also a free additional PC whenever their worldwide sales reaches a 100k units milestone. What really stands out is that the Tango PC is slim and weighs below 7 ounces, fitting what amounts to a full range of desktop components in a package about the size of an iPhone 5s. The specifications include an AMD A6-5200 2 GHz quad-core processor, DDR3 RAM (from 2-8GB), SSD hard drive (from 32GB-1TB or higher), 3x USB 2.0 ports, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x HDMI port, headphone jack and internal Wi-Fi.
As for the operating system, Windows 7/8 is certified to run on Tango, but any OS compatible with a laptop PC should work, such as Linux, Unix and Chromium OS. In other words, Tango could potentially be your next cell phone sized Steam Machine.
The slim and tiny docking stations priced just at $99 each ($89 on KickStarter) can replace expensive desktops, IPTV boxes and older gaming consoles, and thus can save money on hardware and software because users can just carry one PC for everything everywhere.
Be sure to check out the Live demo video and their Kickstarter Campaign which ends in a day or so at the time of writing.
The Tango Kickstarter Campaign got fully funded just a day ago, and with only a day or so more to go, the consumers still can back their campaign in return of not just the Tango PC, but also a free additional PC whenever their worldwide sales reaches a 100k units milestone. What really stands out is that the Tango PC is slim and weighs below 7 ounces, fitting what amounts to a full range of desktop components in a package about the size of an iPhone 5s. The specifications include an AMD A6-5200 2 GHz quad-core processor, DDR3 RAM (from 2-8GB), SSD hard drive (from 32GB-1TB or higher), 3x USB 2.0 ports, 1x USB 3.0 port, 1x HDMI port, headphone jack and internal Wi-Fi.
The slim and tiny docking stations priced just at $99 each ($89 on KickStarter) can replace expensive desktops, IPTV boxes and older gaming consoles, and thus can save money on hardware and software because users can just carry one PC for everything everywhere.
Be sure to check out the Live demo video and their Kickstarter Campaign which ends in a day or so at the time of writing.
23 Comments on Meet Tango PC, The Desktop Computer That Can Fit in Your Pocket
It is also around the same power as my Asus k55n laptop. With an SSD instead of HDD. I'm impressed...especially for the price. Though my AMD ran hot and up to 1GHz over stock speed in turbo mode. How will this keep cool. Regardless..I'm interested. Think I need one!
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It's really nothing special and there are much better performing platforms in that size range.
The docking station only is 99$, true. But the PC part will be much more than 99$. That is the small thing that houses the CPU/memory/ssd that gets plugged in the docking station and can be swapped between multiple docking stations. The so called PC component does not work without a docking station.
So the whole gimmick is that you buy 1 weak and expensive pc and many cheaper docking stations and just swap the pc from one station to the next...
Just like people compare a laptop to pc
I hate it!! people need to do some more research before they comment
+1 for you :D
it irks me every time I hear that being misused. lol
The docking station idea sucks ....
It would be good if you could use the device without the docking station.
Hell i can do that free with meraki systems manager from any pc that has a simple tiny agent on it.. LOL
Nothing that a smartphone cannot do nowadays. Don't tell me you are going to play AAA games on it!! :))))
And besides, you need to attach 1 million peripherals to it, like monitor, keyboard, mouse, camera, speakers, etc, etc.
So its basically about your local data and your OS state/settings.
Well ... don't we have the same functionality on life linux distros on USB for years ?