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Thin Client PC Fits in Wall Socket

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-toys-ever dept.

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."

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  1. Hard to see without vision enhancement by Bromskloss · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh, the display is not included.

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  2. Wow by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those on a power strip.

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    1. Re:Wow by Kadin2048 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those on a power strip.

      Yeah, you'd be able to run spyware in parallel that way.

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  3. Re:A Range of Applications? by east+coast · · Score: 2, Funny

    are we talking Solitaire? MS Office? World of Warcraft?

    D00d, they support it all: Solitaire, Spider, Spades, Minesweeper, Notepad, Telnet AND IE.

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  4. Voice commands? by madHomer · · Score: 1, Funny

    But will it understand voice commands?

    "Jack, off." Hmm, why is it loading pr0n?

  5. Re:The question is... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 2, Funny
    Does it support VPN?

    Does it run Linux? If not, how long before it does?