Yawn. People complaining about this apparently don’t work in IT and don’t know that thin clients which connect to a variety of different VDI solutions are pretty common in lots of different businesses and government agencies.
For work, this would be great.
For home, hell nah.
Please don’t buy this.
You will own nothing and you will be happy!
If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren’t entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things.
But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I’ll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.
Obviously these are going to be used for corporate or organizational settings, as it what was then with the so-called Network Computer thin clients which Oracle tried promoting but flopped.
I wonder why they failed previously 🤔🤔
I don’t know Oracle’s product but the company I work for has had a ton of people working on VDI for like 15 years now. It’s a solved problem. The only real annoying part was that it required pretty solid bandwidth and people would try using it on shitty Internet and then expect us to fix it. I’m kind of surprised it took this long for a consumer version to get off the ground. I would never use it because it sounds like a privacy nightmare but most people don’t think about that shit.
That’s crazy
Laughs in Debian
The Live USB disk laughing maniacally at the PC
Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
“not power themselfs” ?
Microsoft will determine when the PC needs to be booted up as per your employer’s demands 😆
It’s a really stupid way to describe thin clients, anyway. Assuming that’s what this is. I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC.
I have no idea why a thin client would need a 2.5Gbps NIC.
I know bandwidth isn’t latency but for a thin client having a rock solid network connection to the virtual desktop server is pretty important for the user interface. I’m guessing pushing video and animations can require pretty high data rates, too.
Not more than 1Gbpa
At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)
It’s like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn’t run Windows. Please buy our garbage.
Going back to the dumb terminal days of the 60s & 70s
Now with added surveillance and advertising!
These won’t amount to much, windows 365 is expensive. Companies really only have a use case for these over dedicated hardware for specific use cases that make sense, of which there isn’t a lot vs dedicated computers.
Unlike Dell, Asus did mention a few more details - the system will pack DDR5 memory, HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5G Ethernet. Exact details regarding the USB and HDMI port were not offered, however.
Isn’t the amount of memory kind of a tiny bit more important than which generation it is?
You get One(1) DDR5.
It’s a streaming PC. Specs don’t really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz
No, no. You misunderstood. You have a “memory” of a thing called DDR5, which you used to be able to afford and purchase. You are supposed to bring that memory with you to reminisce fondly while using this piece of junk Dell is trying to sell you.
Having memories of having memory?
Memory? What’s that? I’m too American to afford remembering anything, all I do is work.
Actually these laptops may sell well: less memory when RAM is at exhorbitant prices will confer them a hefty price advantage.
