For 249€ you can buy a Ryzen 5 (Not an N100, mind you) 16Gb/512Gb mini PC With windows 11 Pro in Amazon in Europe, or this one, in an actual new, different format, with interesting extras, like a 2.5K webcam, and speakers And of course, you have your local windows, you can dual boot Win/Linux, and/or run VMs of your choice, and do decent gaming!
So… dumb terminal are back in?
Hot damn boys, I’ll see ya on the RS-232 relays!
Words can’t express how much I don’t want this.
The article mentions this is aimed at enterprises who are already probably doing something like this with vmware ESXi
Doubt it’ll ever catch on with anything except maybe the largest of orgs. You can just procure office task ready machines so cheaply these days, and Windows 365 is like $45/user/month. Far more than what we pay for windows licensing, user Cals, and office licensing all combined.
Yep for managing “thin clients” I’d been expecting something like this someday.
Without a subscription right… Right?
in tiny fonts: the data you upload to the cloud will be used for AI training purposes
This makes less than no sense, for $349 you can easily buy a computer that can stream a desktop, hell any computer capable of streaming another computer is inherently capable of offline work, this has absolutely no value add to anyone except Microsoft and not even that since people can make literally any other choice.
Why is it so expensive? You can buy a fully functioning laptop with a local windows install for way less.
Even the new mac mini is $599 and that’s a full on computer with really good performance.
It’s a thin client…
But it’s a new and revolutionary thin client. It’s got 365 in the name, anyway.
It’s new and revolutionary in that it’s worthless because you can only run Microsoft shit on this and makes you lock yourself 100% in with a vendor notorious for not giving a single shit about customers
99.9% of consumers couldn’t care less.
Yet people keep making fun of Apple for putting the power button on the bottom.
At least it works offline.
Yeaaa…I’m switching to iPhone next time I need a new phone. And I’ve fully swapped over to Linux on all but my living room gaming machine. The gaming machine has no need for privacy if I’m just using steam and a controller. No mics or anything.
Nice, more e-waste… Also, if it’s just streaming from the cloud, how is it so expensive? Its on the same range as a steam deck.
😎 profit, synergy, enterprise, buzzword.
You forgot AI!
There is absolutely zero reason a thin client needs to cost this much, unless this has some seriously high-end multi-monitor capabilities
Even a Raspberry Pi 5 is a capable thin client that can run 2 4k monitors
Dells thin clients cost almost twice as much
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/scc/sr/cloud-client/thin-clients
My Thinkpad T440p cost less then half that and many mini PCs cost around that much.
You can get an x86_64 mini pc for that same price. Or you can buy a used mid gaming rig for that same price.
And if you thought Microsoft could not get worse…
Burn it with fire
Pretty sure I can sell my laptop for that amount
