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?
It’s a streaming PC. Specs don’t really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz
“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.
Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
Please don’t buy this.
Someone will install Linux on them and use them as a cheap barebones computer. I’m sure with a bit of jiggery-pokery they can be repurposed to something useful.
I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.
You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and “oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can’t run your thin client”
…good
Network booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape
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If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.
I see this going nowhere
For a few hundred bucks I have a mini PC with which I can do anything I want
This thing, even at half price, would only allow office365, with monthly payments.
Who the fuck would want that and not just spend a few bucks more and have an actual computer?
Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters… Guess they found an use for that after all.
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.
And so, the technofiefdom begins.
The best we’ll soon be able to own is workstations. Talk about data manipulation.
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.
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.
