Oh, this isn’t satire.
Yeah April fools already passed. Hopefully Microsoft got their days mixed up lol.
tldr: it’s a thin client that works only with microsoft infra and costs $350
You can buy an actual computer that can run a local OS and office suite for less. This product is ridiculous.
This is for the enterprise. Thin clients are very common.
Yeah, but the rationale for thin clients is that the client is cheap. This is anything but cheap, you can get a reasonably powerful MiniPC for a lot less and still set it up as a thin client if you like.
Now that i see it cannot connect to AVD the value prop is a bit confusing but … show me another pre-configured enterprise grade device that can connect to my organization M365 with minimal effort from the admin or user.
That’s a lot of money for a thin client that can’t connect to a local server. I would rather use a terminal over a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem than this piece of e-waste.
For corpos that rely on this kind of infrastructure it might be ok because Dell stuff isn’t really that cheap either. I’m more puzzled that somebody could be interested in this. I’ve been through multiple companies that relied primarily on thin clients using Citrix/VMware for virtualisation on the other end and they all retreated from that idea during the pandemic even though one would think it would be the opposite.
its real utility is to those fully invested in Microsoft’s cloudy vision.
“Cloudy vision” is a fantastic phrase, definitely stealing it.
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It’s just a Chromebook in desktop format.
Not even a chromebook. You can play local videos off a Chromebook (or access files) if you don’t have access to the internet.
just bought a thin client for 30€ the other day, and even that thing can rum void linux.
