Cooling is exactly the issue. The processor itself weighs not much, however the traces on the circuitboard, the heat sink, the additional space for the chip, etc all contribute to carrying around something bigger (to fit all that stuff in) and thus, heavier.
With something like View, you can ramp up the CPU / RAM / Storage far in excess of what you'll have in a typical desktop/laptop - on your tablet. I could, for example allocate 96 GB of RAM to my VDI image right now if i wanted to, and run it on my tablet.
Why carry the cores with you? move them to the dock, or even better, to a remote machine (home server, cloud service, whatever) and reduce the size, weight and battery consumption of the device.
I'm attempting to do the exact thing you describe, sort of - with an iPad mini, BT keyboard and a display adapter. Using VMware View (i.e., remote desktop to a VM running on my vSphere cluster) for my Windows desktop.
It is frustratingly close, but there are several faults: BT keyboard doesn't support all the Windows keypresses required via View. The display runs in 1024x768 which is a bit... meh. Haven't tried it with my iPad 4 yet though.
But, this is the way I see things going. I want a tablet with "all day" battery life, inductive charging, WIDI, BT keyboard and BT mouse. I want to be able to get to work, plonk it on my desk (on a charging pad), have it see my keyboard/mouse/screen and "just work".
When I leave work for the day, I want to just pick it up, have the connection fail over from local WIFI to IPSEC secured IPv6 over cellular, and carry on via touch interface. When i get home, have it sync up to the devices i have on my desk at home.
This carrying a laptop around thing is bollocks. It's not needed. All my data is on teh cluster, backed up, on highly available hardware, etc. If i want more CPU / RAM, i just provision more in vSphere. The tablet hardware is pretty irrelevant, so long as it can run view.
If you're determined to rail against new stuff you can pull any manner of bullshit reasons out. I used to prefer 4:3 too, but after using 16:10 (which yes, you can get), I much prefer it as I can have two things open side by side for more effective multitasking. A decent modern LED/LCD has quality that is more than good enoguh and likely better than some 10-15 year old CRT.
No. They/I fully expect tablets to replace PCs for many users (NOT all) who do not do large scale content creation / administration tasks. E.g., grandparents who just want to browse the internet, talk to their kids via video chat, etc. For them, a PC is totally un-necessary and a cost/maintenance burden they don't need.
What most of the slashdot crowd don't seem to get is that with flexibility comes complexity. There's a huge number of users out there who want a device to do basic tasks and be essentially maintenance free. Once you start adding significant complexity, it stops being maintenance free.
Exactly. tablet, phone, PC/mac/whatever serve entirely different purposes.
If i want to do wholesale document creation, I'll use my laptop. If I want to read/review do MINOR edits (or emergency remote admin, in my case) whilst in transit, i'll use the tablet, which I carry with me pretty much everywhere.
If i'm not at an "endpoint" type location or not on public transport, I'll use the phone.
Why's that? In-flight audio between VOIP stations these days is already compressed down to about 32 kbit or less, and 32 kbit still gives very good audio quality.
The government will potentially have hundreds or thousands of petabytes of storage capacity available, easily. You do the math. Text chats take a negligible amount of storage by comparison.
The only thing that will push their storage these days is trying to keep decent quality video.
The only major problem will be cataloguing, indexing and searching that data.
Exactly. Getting technical is pushing your job onto them, and that's what they pay you for. If they wanted to learn about IT and get involved in that side of the decision making process, they could quite easily take the pay cut and be doing your job instead.
Whether you (in IT) are "happy" about it or not is irrelevant. The cost to accomplish in terms of $ and hours may or may not be worth the trade off for other benefits that particular package provides to the company. It all comes back to time and money. If the IT side is going to be a prick of a job, work out how many hours, how many dollars worth of hardware and software and consulting (or additional staff required), and give them the figures.
They will either balk at it (in which case you go into details as to how those figures were achieved when requested) or re-evaluate the cost to implement.
Exactly. In reality, it is YOUR JOB to insulate the CEO and other upper management types from having to deal with this sort of bullshit. This is why Apple sells a shitload of gear to people like your CEO. They just want stuff to work and don't care about the implementation details. Window colours? Irrelevant. Theme on their phone? Irrelevant. Ringtone? Irrelevant.
Bringing petty technical decision making bullshit to upper management level types is failing at your job. Unless they ask for more detail, abstract it away into dollar figures and man-hours required.
The reason they don't know it by now is because it is totally irrelevant to their job. They employ nerds to handle that shit, and all they need is a "yes, we can run this", a "we will need to spend $X to run this" or similar.
All you're doing by trying to explain the technical side of things to them off the bat is offloading YOUR JOB onto their shoulders. The technical stuff is none of their concern. As far as management are concerned, IT stuff should be like magic. They don't need/want to know the details, they have other things to worry about.
If they want to know the technical details, they will ask for more detail, e.g. "Why do we need to spend 50k on hardware?" and even when explaining that, be brief and non-technical. E.g., "our current storage capacity is insufficient" or "our hardware was never specced for this kind of workload and needs upgrading".
If and when more details are required, go into more detail. But likely, more detail will seldom be requested because the details are supposed to be handled by the IT guys.
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Cooling is exactly the issue. The processor itself weighs not much, however the traces on the circuitboard, the heat sink, the additional space for the chip, etc all contribute to carrying around something bigger (to fit all that stuff in) and thus, heavier.
... How many we're new pcs that instantly got downgraded? How many are enterprise licenses that have not been used?
A laptop is "freakishly expensive" to do stuff my desktop already does. Oh wait... it's not as portable. Zing...
With something like View, you can ramp up the CPU / RAM / Storage far in excess of what you'll have in a typical desktop/laptop - on your tablet. I could, for example allocate 96 GB of RAM to my VDI image right now if i wanted to, and run it on my tablet.
Only in america. Elsewhere, we don't like salt with our chocolate.
Thus, you can use a tablet CPU / GPU and just plug into peripherals such as screens, mice and keyboards (or even better connect to them wirelessly).
Why carry the cores with you? move them to the dock, or even better, to a remote machine (home server, cloud service, whatever) and reduce the size, weight and battery consumption of the device.
I'm attempting to do the exact thing you describe, sort of - with an iPad mini, BT keyboard and a display adapter. Using VMware View (i.e., remote desktop to a VM running on my vSphere cluster) for my Windows desktop.
It is frustratingly close, but there are several faults: BT keyboard doesn't support all the Windows keypresses required via View. The display runs in 1024x768 which is a bit... meh. Haven't tried it with my iPad 4 yet though.
But, this is the way I see things going. I want a tablet with "all day" battery life, inductive charging, WIDI, BT keyboard and BT mouse. I want to be able to get to work, plonk it on my desk (on a charging pad), have it see my keyboard/mouse/screen and "just work".
When I leave work for the day, I want to just pick it up, have the connection fail over from local WIFI to IPSEC secured IPv6 over cellular, and carry on via touch interface. When i get home, have it sync up to the devices i have on my desk at home.
This carrying a laptop around thing is bollocks. It's not needed. All my data is on teh cluster, backed up, on highly available hardware, etc. If i want more CPU / RAM, i just provision more in vSphere. The tablet hardware is pretty irrelevant, so long as it can run view.
HDMI is so fucking last decade. WIDI is the way forward. With 10 hour usage life WHY the FUCK do i want to plug my device into a fucking cable?
Yeah, bill "thinks" people need one of whatever microsoft are pushing this week.
If you're determined to rail against new stuff you can pull any manner of bullshit reasons out. I used to prefer 4:3 too, but after using 16:10 (which yes, you can get), I much prefer it as I can have two things open side by side for more effective multitasking. A decent modern LED/LCD has quality that is more than good enoguh and likely better than some 10-15 year old CRT.
Including cheap monitors you can get for under 150 bucks, today (for 21.5" widescreen full HD, no less). Moving forward this is NOT a barrier.
No. They/I fully expect tablets to replace PCs for many users (NOT all) who do not do large scale content creation / administration tasks. E.g., grandparents who just want to browse the internet, talk to their kids via video chat, etc. For them, a PC is totally un-necessary and a cost/maintenance burden they don't need.
What most of the slashdot crowd don't seem to get is that with flexibility comes complexity. There's a huge number of users out there who want a device to do basic tasks and be essentially maintenance free. Once you start adding significant complexity, it stops being maintenance free.
Exactly. tablet, phone, PC/mac/whatever serve entirely different purposes.
If i want to do wholesale document creation, I'll use my laptop. If I want to read/review do MINOR edits (or emergency remote admin, in my case) whilst in transit, i'll use the tablet, which I carry with me pretty much everywhere.
If i'm not at an "endpoint" type location or not on public transport, I'll use the phone.
Just what we need, another clone of Battlefield 2 with new skins.
RIP
Duh, ignore me, missed the steganography bit.
Why use MP3 when they already have harwdare in routers to do accelerated g.729 or similar?
Postgresql is more feature complete, just as fast, and properly free software.
If they capture audio "on the wire" over the internet (as pretty much most telco audio is carried these days), it is already compressed.
Why's that? In-flight audio between VOIP stations these days is already compressed down to about 32 kbit or less, and 32 kbit still gives very good audio quality.
The government will potentially have hundreds or thousands of petabytes of storage capacity available, easily. You do the math. Text chats take a negligible amount of storage by comparison.
The only thing that will push their storage these days is trying to keep decent quality video.
The only major problem will be cataloguing, indexing and searching that data.
Exactly. Getting technical is pushing your job onto them, and that's what they pay you for. If they wanted to learn about IT and get involved in that side of the decision making process, they could quite easily take the pay cut and be doing your job instead.
Whether you (in IT) are "happy" about it or not is irrelevant. The cost to accomplish in terms of $ and hours may or may not be worth the trade off for other benefits that particular package provides to the company. It all comes back to time and money. If the IT side is going to be a prick of a job, work out how many hours, how many dollars worth of hardware and software and consulting (or additional staff required), and give them the figures.
They will either balk at it (in which case you go into details as to how those figures were achieved when requested) or re-evaluate the cost to implement.
Exactly. In reality, it is YOUR JOB to insulate the CEO and other upper management types from having to deal with this sort of bullshit. This is why Apple sells a shitload of gear to people like your CEO. They just want stuff to work and don't care about the implementation details. Window colours? Irrelevant. Theme on their phone? Irrelevant. Ringtone? Irrelevant.
Bringing petty technical decision making bullshit to upper management level types is failing at your job. Unless they ask for more detail, abstract it away into dollar figures and man-hours required.
The reason they don't know it by now is because it is totally irrelevant to their job. They employ nerds to handle that shit, and all they need is a "yes, we can run this", a "we will need to spend $X to run this" or similar.
All you're doing by trying to explain the technical side of things to them off the bat is offloading YOUR JOB onto their shoulders. The technical stuff is none of their concern. As far as management are concerned, IT stuff should be like magic. They don't need/want to know the details, they have other things to worry about.
If they want to know the technical details, they will ask for more detail, e.g. "Why do we need to spend 50k on hardware?" and even when explaining that, be brief and non-technical. E.g., "our current storage capacity is insufficient" or "our hardware was never specced for this kind of workload and needs upgrading".
If and when more details are required, go into more detail. But likely, more detail will seldom be requested because the details are supposed to be handled by the IT guys.