xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoAsus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSwww.notebookcheck.netexternal-linkmessage-square220linkfedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down120
arrow-up1438arrow-down1external-linkAsus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSwww.notebookcheck.netxavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square220linkfedilink
minus-squarexavier666@lemmy.umucat.dayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 months agoThe OS is fully running on the cloud. You will be given a VM. Everything stays there. You may have to take permission to download a file from the VM onto your local device. You don’t get any choice about telemetry.
minus-squareXLE@piefed.socialBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoAm I interpreting this wrong, or do the specs look like absolute crap? I would expect a thin client would need hardware this good: 2 vCPU 4 GB RAM 64 GB Storage That starts at $28 a month.
The OS is fully running on the cloud. You will be given a VM. Everything stays there. You may have to take permission to download a file from the VM onto your local device. You don’t get any choice about telemetry.
Am I interpreting this wrong, or do the specs look like absolute crap? I would expect a thin client would need hardware this good:
That starts at $28 a month.