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With fibber internet increasingly becoming standard around the world and 5G it makes perfect sense people will use their computer as a terminal for a more power
by iddan 5y ago
With fibber internet increasingly becoming standard around the world and 5G it makes perfect sense people will use their computer as a terminal for a more powerful computer in the cloud than buying powerful computers
- wereHamster 5y agom a i n f r a m e :)
- imwillofficial 5y ago> fibber internet increasingly becoming standard around the world and 5G it makes perfect sense Absolutely not, the average connection speeds for 99% of the globe are nowhere near offering a solid desktop experience. Plus, chips are plenty fast days. Rarely do typical uses need to upgrade because of new software.
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- vlan0 5y agoI wouldn't hold my breath on that one. Last mile ISPs are not optimizing for those traffic patterns. And there really is no incentive for them to do so. For exampe, there's 70ms between my Verizon phone and the PC sitting in front of me on a very well connected network. The traffic goes from WNY > NYC > DC > NYC > CNY > WNY. Very much not optimal. At the same time, AWS us-east1 is 9ms away from my desktop.
- babypuncher 5y agoThe economics still don't work out. Buying a more powerful computer is still probably cheaper after just a year or two.
- tomjen3 5y agoThat would make sense indeed, if the prices for 365 weren't so damm high. And if we had a computer that could be a dumb terminal - it would cost 10-20 dollars, have wifi, ethernet, an HDMI connection and support a mouse and a keyboard.
- mattl 5y agoSo a Raspberry Pi?
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