Please don’t buy this.
Fucking terminals. These are NOT PCs, this are TERMINALS! 1!!
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.
Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
Laughs in Debian
The Live USB disk laughing maniacally at the PC
Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.
‘Someone, do something about our problem so we can take advantage of it’
Fuck this is exhausting
What do you expect us to do? I don't buy anti-consumer products as much as possible and I advise everyone I know to do the same. I explain why things are bad, but most people don't care enough to listen. On top of that, these companies collude so that all the options end up being anti-consumer bullshit and you're stuck trying to find the least bad one.
I think it's more of a way for those of is in the US to hang on to some shred of optimism. Surely somebody somewhere will continue to make nice things for normal people, right?
I've spent just a little bit of time in Europe, with most of it in Sweden. I have seen with my own eyes how civilized societies can have nice things in shared spaces!
"Some adult needs to come fix my problems for me" seems to be super common these days. It's partly why the US is in the state it's in, but certainly not limited to the US.
Its a reality. Why does apple use usb c now? Because someone else got tired of their shit.
I'm so sick of Microsoft I actually installed Fedora KDE Plasma.
Genuinely, it's nicer than windows lol
The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying, but overall it works really well, has more features and looks slick.
Ain't ever going back.
"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
It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.
I feel bad for the poor bastards that will certainly have these forced on them at the office or at school.
If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.
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.
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.
It's a streaming PC. Specs don't really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz
So a thin client?
Yes. You run windows remotely, probably through that 2.5G ethernet.
I'd rather be struck by lightning than use cloud computing through Wi-Fi.
Sorry I meant that along the lines of "this is already a thing just marketed differently." Hyping up something that already exists as something new just feels odd and forced. Like if I made a car but called them "vroom vrooms" and marketed them for driving down Young street only.
Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.
That's crazy
This is horrifying in that it signals a concerted push towards getting consumers on cloud computing.
But in terms of self hosting your own compute these actually look great, especially if they’re subsidized to get you into a subscription fee. As long as we can break into the bootloader and run Linux on these, they look to be very capable and efficient small compute boxes. 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports, DDR5 memory, and Intel N series processors?
Self hosters and homelabbers will be licking their lips.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
