Submitted by “The Jack PC from Chip PC Technologies offers a neat and novel thin-client desktop computing solution where the computer doesn’t just plug into the wall, it is the plug in the wall. Running on power provided by the ethernet cable that also connects it to the data center server, the computer-in-a-wall-socket supports wireless connectivity, has dual display capabilities and runs on the RISC processor architecture – which gives the solution the equivalent of 1.2GHz of x86 processing power.”
Hi Thom,
If you read the comments on slashdot (which may not be for everyone, I agree) but this product is 2 years old already, it was featured on slashdot at that time.
It isn’t news for nerds and it isn’t OS-news.
Ohh, well. 🙂
PS This was the first time slashdot-comments made more sense then OSNews, no worries
Edited 2010-11-04 00:32 UTC
What would really impress me is if it was completely wireless (with the exception of the Ethernet).
Wireless Display – Possible
Wireless Keyboard – Possible
Wireless Mouse – Possible
Wireless Sound – Possible
Wireless USB – Possible
All we need is a defined standard for wireless sound, keyboard and mouse. However, I think the Wireless USB standard might take care of that.
I don’t know about sound, but the BT HID standard seems fine for keyboards and mice.
technology the better. Wireless encourages the non thinking to proliferate their ‘thoughts’.
I think I am stupid as after 2 minutes of reading the news item and the linked article, I still don’t see how I could use the thing… Is it “ready for the cloud(TM)”? (btw, the TM is mine, beware of me suing you and asking for gluten-free cookies”)
Seriously, can somebody tell me what I do with that? Suppose I buy one of these … then what? How do I turn it on? or off? What OS does it run? Is it supposed to replace a tower? Does it run as a standalone PC? or are we going back to the era of dumb terminals?
What’s the overall purpose anyway? Space saving?
Edited 2010-11-04 13:08 UTC
It’s likely designed for Citrix and RDP stuff – in other words, as a dumb terminal with a small amount of local processing. (For instance, I have an HP thin client with a 1.2 GHz ARM (basically a PogoPlug with an XGI GPU included,) and it comes with Firefox as well as various remote access tools.)