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HP (and the OP) seem to think that they have something revolutionary here. Actually, this has been around for over five years already: http://www.chippc.com/thin-clients/jack-pc/

Jack PC + OnLive = Cheap gaming cafe?

Cheap.. until you get your bill from your ISP.

... from a company with a page like this. If I can't buy easily, directly from your site, I'm not going to buy. FFS, do you want to sell things or not? If so then set up a damn store somewhere--Yahoo, eBay, etsy, I don't care. But don't tell me "Here's a bunch of links to the front page of some resellers, start searching." At the very least, post a "suggested price" so I know if it's even worth the effort to pursue.

http://www.chippc.com/thin-clients/jack-pc/

2 of the 3 models they sell list this as a spec in the spec sheets

100% Virus / Trojan Immunity

On top of that, they run (unlike someone incorrectly said they run linux) Operating System Enhanced Windows CE-6.0 R2

Read the specs for each of the three models yourself lol

Jack PC + OnLive = Cheap gaming cafe?

Chip PC also sell thin client machines. I don't know how the price compares to Wyse. They don't sell direct, so you need to contact one of their resellers.

Makes me remember those futuristic cars with wings drawn in 50s. This - http://www.chippc.com/thin-clients/jack-pc/ seams kinda cooler to me.

I've been thinking that when I get out of grad school and get a job and a house, I want to plop a server box in the basement somewhere, and just scatter terminals running VLC or something similar around the house. I would think the Jack PC would be great for this, but the wall-wart in this article would be pretty good. Maybe have a separate gaming computer hooked up to the TV or something like that.

We have recently adopted a phased approach of deploying new thin clients as our estate of traditional desktops hit retirement. After having seen several false dawns and uncomfortably proprietary solutions in the last 15 years, it was only now that we have been happy enough with the whole solution (thin client HW, network connectivity, back-end virtualization SW) to take the plunge.

There are now a range of HW clients (we use ChipPC).
There are a couple of viable virtualization systems (we use Citrix Xen, without the presentation server "tax").
We've chosen a dedicated virtualization hardware appliance on the back-end from 360is.

Virtualization in the data center, coupled with Moores law as it applies to increasing CPU performance will take care of part of the problem. Today I can buy a dedicated hardware appliance that runs over 60 virtual machine workloads, costs about the same as a Dell server, and uses a fraction of the power and cooling.

On the desktop, thin clients are long overdue, and with lower cost devices from a range of suppliers (I like these ones) a desktop costs you only 5 watts these days.

AG.

And then you have the Jack PC that fits into an ordinary wall outlet box. (Round type, not the rectangular type)

Still not x86, but in the same price and performance bracket is a Jack-PC.
It's a thinclient built inside a standard wall jack that can be powered over PoE.

According to http://www.chippc.com/resources/JackPC_Booklet.pdf it does run off of POE. It also looks like the box size is a standard double wide electric box. But they have a proprietary box that has some sort of modular release system so you don't have to screw with wires when you install it.

-Rick

They have an interesting table for embedded OS comparison.

Among other things, they rate
Virus vulnerability> WinCE: low; Linux: high
Stability/reliability> WinCE: high; Linux: medium
License Price> WinCE:$12; Linux: $12-16 + 3rd party fees

Other interesting remarks there as well.

http://www.chippc.com/resources/JackPC_Booklet.pdf