Posts by sanf

PC market sinking even faster than first thought, thanks to Windows 10

How about virtualization? Where I work, no more workstations are bought anymore. What you get is a windows laptop, two screens and a RHEL6 instance you can connect to. If you want more processing power, you know the directions to the computer farm.

Chromecast: We get our SWEATY PAWS on Google's tiny telly pipe

Re: ARM stick

As far as I understood, there is some magic process where you need to use a specific setup software once. This setup software is the one that does not have a Linux version. I guess it has something to do with accessing a default Wi-Fi network.

After setup, you control the Chromecast via mobile applications and Chrome (hopefully, Linux version here). Chrome is just a mirror of the web browser. I fear the worst when marketing material only shows photos of this situation. Mobile applications need to be approved by Google, so expect there to be just a bunch of popular ones.

ARM sticks with Android are similar to Chromecast, except that they can do so much more. Chromecast is designed for video applications.

As useful as Apple TV then?

That is, if you are not part of the ecosystem, this product is not for you. It even looks like Apple TV can do something more than Chromecast: play from a local device of the network.

Marketing guys did a great job then: most people are confused on what the device can do. A colleague of mine did not believe that it was not the mobile phone doing the streaming.