Wyse lets slip a pair of mobile thin clients
WYSE TECHNOLOGY unveiled a couple of mobile thin clients here at VMworld Europe 2008
Mobile thin clients are increasingly replacing the corporate laptop. Instead of a high performance box to lug home on the train, virtual users can expect a thin client box instead, devoid of fat hard disk and power-sapping processor.
The Wyse X90L and X90Le are designed around a low-power VIA Via C7M ULV 1.2GHz processor. In a virtual world connectivity replaces the need for hard disk storage and so these boxes come with Gigabit Ethernet for access to the fastest corporate networks plus 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN connectivity and Cisco CCX compatibility for wirelessness. Neither sports any moving parts.
The boxes run Microsoft Windows XP embedded, and are totally solid-state sporting instead 1G RAM/1G Flash.
Chief Wyse marketer, Jeff McNaught, said the firm "went well beyond the idea of stripping down a notebook PC, to deliver a thoughtful, future-proofed combination of performance, peripheral support, and connectivity, offering Wi-Fi b, g and even n and Bluetooth 2.0. I can access my desktop anywhere my phone works, even as a passenger in a moving car."
The X90L retails for $729 while the X90Le with built-in Bluetooth and smart card support retails for $799. Volume shipments begin immediately Wyse said. Here’s the L’INQ. µ
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If your connection is slow then so is your ability to do work. The is the dirty little secret of all hosted applications anywhere. So you have a 5 Mb/s pipe? What does that matter if the network between you and your host is giving you lag like you're in Central America on a dial-up modem? Until there is ubiquitous and consistent broadband access in the U.K., the U.S.A., the EU and where ever else this may be deployed it's going to be OK at best. And it will always be at the mercy of construction workers everywhere; all it takes is some one with a backhoe to chop through a 256 cable backbone somewhere.
Bollocks. ~$730 for a machine with no hard drive, an extremely show (and cheap processor)? I can go numerous vendors and purchase a laptop with decent specs for less than this. Ridiculous.