On 2008-04-25, Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Thin-Clients Revisited
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The death of the PC is predicted once again. Of course I will be wrong like
>>| all the others before me. Personal Computing is so seductive that it will
>>| morph into ultra-cheap low-powered devices that hybridise the web thin-client
>>| with the personal device. Even Dell are aiming to release a sub $100 Linux
>>| (Ubuntu?) notebook. What I can say, however, is that the day of the big
>>| beige/black box is stone dead maybe it will take a major operating system
>>| vendor with it.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/thin-clients-revisited.html
>>
>
> I agree entirely... the desktop is very very dead, long live the
> appliance and the mobile device.
4 of the 5 desktop machines in this house are used as appliances.
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