Hardware Applicance to replace your desktop PC?
written on Sep.03, 2006
You probably have one or several PCs at your home. And I guess you also reinstall them now and then just to make them “fresh”. My thought with this site is to uninstall everything. All I want is a web browser and an Internet Connection and then keep everything online.
So, imagine this: You buy a hardware appliance for around $50. It could look like something below. All it got is output for keyboard, mouse, audio and video and it runs WLAN to connect to the Internet. It doesn’t have any moving parts, local storage nor powerful processor so it’s dead quiet. It starts up in a few seconds and all you get is some kind of desktop (Linux?) with shortcuts and a menu to all your applications which of course are kept online.
(Yes, they are available but I don’t want a PC – I want an $50 browser appliance)
This is what I’m looking for! Anyone of you got any ideas where I can find such appliance – let me know! In the meantime – I have my ordinary PC and run VMware to start up my Browser Appliance and run everything from there.
July 8th, 2007 on 10:10 pm
[...] So now you got yourself a “surf station”. No need to re-install. If you make a mistake and crash the virtual machine, simply download the VMware image again and replace the one you have. Now wouldn’t it be good to have this functionality in a hardware appliance? [...]
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