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I've heard of thin client PC's but this is crazy.

ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the swordhttp://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
edited June 2007 in Games and Technology
It boggles my mind that we are moving towards this kind of technology. Single chips able to do what multiple chips used to do only a few years ago. Between this and that pico ITX via is going to make, it should make desktop computers even more interesting as the years progress.

*thin* client
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS3139003780.html

Via PicoITX

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/20/vias-vt6047-mainboard-becomes-first-in-pico-itx-lineage/

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  • RaereRaere Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    One thing I could see it being cool for would be to mount an electrical plug on the back - bam, true plug and play computing.

    "Hey Fred, weird looking nightlight you got going there."
    "Nah, it's my new Folding@Home client" :lol:

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  • RookRook Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I think the point of these is that they're more gateway clients to a centralsed computer. All you need to do is run a kinda VNC style front end on your thin client, and as long as your net connection can handle it, you've got access to all the power of a proper desktop. Handy for small buinesses that don't want to have to employ IT staff.

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  • bashbash Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    SoC (System on Chip) does not necessarily equate to thin clients.

    <pedantic>
    In fact calling a SoC board a thin client is completely incorrect. You are conflating two different ideas. A thin client is a network configuration where individual client machines run software hosted from a central server. The client is "thin" because it only has enough power/resources to run some sort of remote terminal application. All of the heavy lifting is done on the server side of the network. A thin client can be a bigass PC configured for network booting of a thin client system (VNC/X11/Citrix).
    </pedantic>

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Thin clients aren't all that awesome. You may as well be using an etch-a-sketch.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    dispatch.o wrote: »
    Thin clients aren't all that awesome. You may as well be using an etch-a-sketch.

    I ...

    ... what?

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