Sheesh. I should really be working, so this will be my
last email on the thread :)
If you can buy an assembled PC for 10K then have you
ever thought how much a
thin client with not that much of hardware would
cost?
Of course I have. Thats why systems like LTSP come in
handy too. Not only
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:24, Viksit Gaur wrote:
but how many SOHOs actually have networked offices?
Not too many.
That situation imo exists because it is too expensive for them to get more
desktops and then get them networked. Once the thin clients become popular
(which Google can achieve
--- Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That situation imo exists because it is too
expensive for them to get more
desktops and then get them networked.
Really, you jest. Expensive? Buying an assembled PC
for about 10k, which would be much more flexible and
powerful than a thin client,
On Saturday 07 January 2006 11:00, Viksit Gaur wrote:
Really, you jest. Expensive? Buying an assembled PC
for about 10k, which would be much more flexible and
powerful than a thin client, and then spending maybe a
1000 bucks on networking. pffft, expense isn't the
problem here.
If you can
somewhere along the thread, everyone conveniently forgot to mention
that google has denied all rumours about entering the desktop market
with its own hardware, in the first place.
:-)
niyam
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From HINDUSTAN TIMES
January 5, 2006
GOOGLE MAY NOT GO SIMPUTER WAY
Venkatesh Ganesh
Mumbai, January 4
GOOGLE's ENTRY into the sub-Rs 10,000 PC market has rattled the cage of
existing players. But the search-engine giant's entry into the hardware
sector in India with a thin-client model (a PC
in infinite wisdom Frederick Noronha (FN) spoke thus on 01/05/06 19:35:
Early entrants like the Simputer and other low-cost PCs are being still
viewed skeptically. Globally too, thin-clients have managed to make only
small inroads.
Mobilis, that was launched by the makers of simputer, was
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 19:35 +0530, Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
From HINDUSTAN TIMES
January 5, 2006
GOOGLE MAY NOT GO SIMPUTER WAY
Industry analysts opine that Google has a rough road ahead. Delivering
complete functionality in a thin-client is most challenging, Sameer
Kochhar CEO of
--- Akshay Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm
really not sure what he means by complete
functionality is most
challenging.
Perhaps the fact that a thin client needs something to
*connect* to.
Consider using existing capped web connections to do
data processing of all sorts - the minute you
Hey,
--- Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would thin clients work only over internet? I had an
idea that if you make a
Desktop PC with decent hardware then you can connect
3-4 (or more) thin
clients to help a SOHO bring down the costs of
buying new hardware and
maintaining
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