PS: Ask your employer to cut you a little slack! :^)
Bob Doolittle wrote:
Jerry Callison wrote:
I am not trying to paint a bad picture of the Sun Rays -- I do love
mine! But fundamentally I believe the PC market is splitting into a
digital-media-converged market (for consumers) and a
reliability-and-availability focused market (for business users).
The six versions of Windows Vista [sic] is further proof that this
transformation is taking place. For consumers, an Internet-based Sun
Ray service makes sense only for those who use their PCs like a
business user... i.e., they run productivity apps, they do not
install new software very often, and they favor reliability over
novelties.
This depends on how you define "novelty".
For my family, it's quite novel to be able to walk to any Sun Ray,
always on and instantly available, and pick up your work where
you left off. :-)
So I think the mobility and availability benefit can't be
understated for home use.
It changes the way you use computers. I never use a phone
book now that I have yp.yahoo.com always available. I've
ripped all my CDs, and can listen to them anywhere
there's a Sun Ray (with decent external speakers, of course).
I work too many hours too, because there's never an impediment
to doing something (e.g. "I don't want to wait for my PC to boot
up to check my mail"). My employer likes this very much, my
family less so :-)
-Bob
On the other hand, I do think there is a market for Sun Rays at home
where the server is also at home. The technical hurdles for that
solution, however, are entirely different.
-jerry
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