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Thin Client PC Fits in Wall Socket
ukhackster writes "Last year, there was a lot of excitement about a cut-down PC that fitted into a wall socket. Next month, the Jack PC will go on sale in the UK for just £209 ($390)." From the article: "At a low price and using low power, MacLellan believes the device is 'one of the biggest developments in PCs that we have seen' and is one of the 'ever-growing range of thin clients, which are rapidly replacing PCs as a more effective desktop computing solution for modern businesses'. The Jack PC runs Windows CE, is designed to connect to 'any terminal server-based environment' and has Citrix ICA and Microsoft RDP clients built in. It runs Internet Explorer 6.0 to connect to Web-driven applications, and runs an 'up to 500MHz' AMD RISC processor, which the company says is equivalent to a 1.2GHz x86. It can come with up to 64MB of flash memory and 128MB RAM."
why CE?
Why not PXE or whatever so that you not limited to M$ crap!
This could be very usefull for automating a household with ltsp. (ltsp.org)
B-)
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You can mod it flame bait all you want but its a simple fact Slashdot needs a product review section for these submissions that are obviously plugs designed to boost sales of some product and stop pretending like they are news. There is a least a 50/50 chance the submitter works for the company that makes said product and is hoping to reap a windfall by getting it on the /. front page.
@de_machina