NEC has a new technology to improve the thin client virtual PC system enabling dedicated multimedia decoding for Mpeg1, Mpeg2 and WMV on the thin client side. For now their solution costs 350$ for the thin client though they also need expensive virtual server machine. When this type of system will function with cheap desktop PC working as the host on the local network, and when it will cost 100$, this will be a great way to build lots of computers sharing centralized processing ressources. And maybe in the future the centralized processing will be located on the Internet on somekind of very powerfull grid systems, once the bandwidth will be 100mbit/s both ways with very low latency, this will become possible for all.
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The Sandisk Sansa View has an SD card memory slot with support for SDHC and 8GB of flash memory built-in. This amounts to up to 16GB of flash-based storage, comes with 4.3 inch 480×272 resolution LCD screen.
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This is the worlds smallest UMPC, it runs a full Windows XP, has 4.3 inch screen, costs 700$ with the Windows XP licence, but isn’t available before July. Comes with 30 or 60GB 1.8 inch hard disk drive, 256mb ram on the AMD Geode LX800 processor.
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