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Keyboard and mouse are just part of the claim, the article mentions an app to connect to a virtual desktop. Does iPad have this, if so what is the name of the app, and how much is it? I really want my iPad and MacBook Pro to be somehow gracefully merged ...

iTeleport, VNC Viewer,LogMeIn, Screens, Mocha and probably some others. Take your pick. I'm partial to iTeleport myself.

Let's see a show of hands: Who wants to be able to give their PARENTS something they can use to browse the web, email, display pictures and video, and read the occasional book/magazine/newspaper, WITHOUT HAVING TO PROVIDE FREE TECH-SUPPORT FOR LIFE?

I thought so... Well that's EXACTLY what the iPad will bring to us geek family-members.

Jeezus! For a bunch of so-called "tech-savvy" readers, /.ers are some of the most anti-change people around...

BTW, have you ever tried to actually USE a "laptop" computer in your lap while seated on typical livingroom furniture (recliner, couch, etc.)? There is NOTHING comfortable about it!

Go back and watch the Keynote. Notice that most of the hands-on was done SITTING IN THE COMFY CHAIR. That wasn't done because Steve-o gets tired standing up. He was demonstrating exactly WHY this is a "game changing" device.

And it is... Or rather, will be...

Quite frankly, this is the device I've been wanting for the past 20 years or so. What it can't deliver on it's own, my computer will sure be able to through a nice VNC client like > this, or this or this running on the iPad!

Now if only VNC supported AUDIO... Seriously, what's up with that???

I am thinking the only thing that might make it worth the asking price is if there is a VNC type of app for it

You mean like this one? (Look for an iPad-resolution version in about 5 seconds)

Or perhaps this one? It even has a FREE (as in beer) version.

Or perhaps this thing?

Now, since I found these in about 30 seconds, what's your next fake objection?

Uhh, dude. There are not only multiple versions of remote desktop clients but also a smattering of Office clones.

Don't worry, we will see a real office suite soon. (I want one too!)

Saying there is no remote desktop is ignorant as balls. http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_rdp.htm

I've been using this phone since February and it's the best gadget I've bought in a long time. Not to mention absolutely essential for me, a sysadmin team (of one person) providing 24x7 support for our Linux servers.

Previously I had a Palm T3 and a bluetooth phone: too bulky to carry everywhere, no keyboard, too small screen and no multitasking. This last point's the killer when you're logged into an SSH session and have just SSH'ed to somewhere else and need to refer to a web page or whatever for a moment but switching away from ssh would close the connections.

What's so good about the 9300?

• Small
• Good keyboard
• PuTTY SSH2 client with an ANSI color 80x24 terminal (or even 106x26 or something when you maximise it)
• Multi-tasking
• Reliable
• Good web browser (Opera, with flash plugin too)
• Good VNC client with SSH2 tunneling
• Office suite that is fairly MS Office-compatible

Basically it's the dog's danglies for mobile system administration. And quite a bit smaller than the Nokia 9500 - who needs Wi-Fi and a camera anyway.

It has a few small problems: no vibrate, a bit slow, can't copy and paste in PuTTY, not so many third-party apps as Palm or Series 60 ..... but that's about it.

• Send/receive mail using POP3S/SMTP-TLS, via SnapperMail.
• SSH via Mocha Pocket Telnet.
• Play MP3s stored on my SD card, via pTunes.
• Use it as a wireless modem for my laptop, via PdaNet.
• Play various time-wasters from PopCap.

Mochasoft has cross-platform terminal emulators for TN5250, TN3270, TN3812 (a printer), LPD and SSH. They aren't free, but not too expensive either (for the TN5250 $25 USD single or $250 company) and worth it.

If you take the palm with keyboard route as a lot of people are suggesting, I recommend SiEd for text editing, it saves files as normal text files on the memory card.
If you carry around a cellphone, you can then upload the files with VFSFTP. When I went to events before I got my laptop, I used this setup to update my webpage with live information. I could also upload photos as such.
Ah, one more handy program, Mocha Telnet, it has SSH-2 support. I used it to ssh in to make thumbnails of the photos I'd uploaded.

Mochasoft has you covered with this product. Sadly, not free, but it's only nagware to use as a demo.

I've had it on my Treo600 since I got the thing, and it's a lifesaver at times (like the time I patched some of our servers at 1:30am from a strip club). :)

I have a 612 & T3 and the combination works flawlessly. Mocha Telnet includes SSH2 (not just SSH1, which is a problem with most other clients), and is usable even though it doesn't play very well with the T3's display (menus aren't expecting b&w, from what I can tell, but the terminal itself is fine).
It's really a great combination, as I can choose whether I need just the WAP on the phone or carry the palm for those times when you need a prompt.

I used to use an Ipaq 3630, but now I'm using a Dell Axmin X5. Bluetooth to the pocket pc, dialling in to a 33,6 RAS service (Orange is the mobile company provider). It's not the quickest thing in the world, but it's the most accessible. If I'm in the centre of town, I don't want to carry a laptop around with me. Even round at a friends house, setting up a VPN setting on his PC on his ADSL (where his router doesn't support VPN passthrough for example) is too much trouble.

MochaSoft Telnet is a decent SSH client for Pocket PC.
you can get a VNC Viewer for Pocket PC here
and a Terminal Services client for PocketPC can be downloaded here

I guess it depends on what you are after. Many of the suggestions here mention laptops and that's OK if you are just generally working remotely. But (even the skinniest one's) are bulky to carry around and require an additional bag to be lugging around. If you just need to ensure that you are able to to remote support in disaster situations whilst on the move, then the Pocket PC w/ bluetooth to a Nokia 6310i is a solution which I have used successfully. (I'm UK based if that makes any difference)

Hands down, the best ssh app for the P800 is Mocha Telnet which you can obtain from www.mochasoft.dk

It's not free, but the demo mode works great.

1. SSH w/MochaTelnet. I like it better than TopGunSSH. Demo is free and doesn't seem to expire.
2. PalmVNC Installed it last night and works pretty well.
3. SnapperMail (allows auto-polling every X minutes) Using it for a couple of months now and I like it very much (includes attachments, and allows installing Palm modules (.prc) via emailing to yourself as an attachment...as opposed to hot-synching to install new software). Cost is $34.95, and I think worth it.

The next software I want to try is PdaNet which will recognize the Treo 300 as an external USB modem to a normal computer. Using the unlimited monthly bandwidth usage of the SprintPCS plan, it will supposedly allow up to 144kbps surfing on my laptop. Cost is $34, with 15 day trial period.

The latest version of mocha telnet does SSH2. Get it here.

Many Palm-based devices have thumb keyboards nowadays. You can get ssh2 here.

...here - Looks like the new v3.0 now supports ssh2 rather than just ssh1.
The best ssh client for small Palm OS devices, IMO.

i have used this putty port for a while, but i am now using the telnet/ssh client by mochasoft, commercial, but functioning way better than the basic putty port listed in the article.

http://www.mochasoft.dk/nokia.html#telnet800

Mocha Soft makes a really good SSH client for PPC. Pair it with a thumb keyboard and wireless card, and you're good to go.

It's got a relatively nag free trial mode, and is one of the cheaper ($25) ones to boot! Two thumbs up! (Or on the keyboard.) :)

SSH2 for Treo 600 is available from Mochasoft http://www.mochasoft.dk/, here is a direct link to the software. It will work with ANY V3.0 or higher Palm based system.

SSH2: http://www.mochasoft.dk/palm.html

Until they have SSH clients and proper wireless access, the point is moot anyway.

Huh? how many SSH clients do you need?

It isn't enough that the offer GSM, CDMA, Bluetooth, and 802.11? What other form of wireless are you looking for -- telepathy?

This is an annoying oversight, true. I'm have a similarly hard time trying to find an answer for you (I'd look at CVS, but I need to get in the shower!).

-You can boot the floppy in 'interactive' kernel configuration mode, and see what devices are in the list.

-You can look in CVS (FreeBSD.org hosts a CVSWeb server, which is quite handy for these moments) and find the kernel configuration file used for the floppy set(s).

-You should be able to use SLIP or PPP over a serial null-modem link, to bootstrap the system to usefulness. Does require an existing workstation that you're comfortable setting up a PPP/SLIP service on. (There do exist some very Plug'n'Play PPP servers for Windows; Mocha PPP is a popular shareware one, often used by palmtop users.)

Keep in mind that FreeBSD (or any *BSD) can be fairly compiling-intensive. If you intend the 486 as a router/firewall, I'd suggest OpenBSD - more for its size and base packages than anything else. FreeBSD shines surprisingly brightly on 'reasonably modern' hardware (e.g. my P-II 400, with 8gb of disk and 256MB RAM), but one of the many ultralight Linux distros might get you rolling faster. I find conventional Linux distros greedily disk-hungry by virtue of default packages, but there's a higher minimum limit to use a BSD properly, in that you're best off having room for the complete system sources and ports skeletons. You can live without those, but then you're missing much of the 'point' of BSD, and it makes for a suboptimal learning environment. (Says I, who got started by being 'stranded' with a similar 486 running OpenBSD for a year.)

Of course, there's at least one ultralight BSD, as well. ;)

Try Mochasoft PPP - http://www.mochasoft.dk