Remote Desktop Connections: The future?

[MackTheHunter]

I set up my new(ish) server PC with a remote connection through LAN to my main PC. The server is now operated 100% remotely, I no longer need a monitor, keyboard, mouse or anything else like that connected to the server PC - I just pop the window up on my main machine and I can use Windows within Windows (sorta).



It's weird actually, because I keep thinking anything I do to this machine will affect my main PC, but it's all run through local hardware. Brilliant :D

Now the brainfart part.

Soon enough, computers will have a system where all you buy is the monitor with an ethernet jack. The computer itself is somewhere else in the world with incredible hardware, but you get to control it locally. Can you imagine the possibilities with this?

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[Dread]

I, for one, welcome our new Robot Overlords.

[Fredulus]

silly dread

[Teneksi]

Oh, yeah, I heard about something like that, where graphics could be rendered remotely and sent to you basically as a streaming video. I wonder about latency, though.

[DrenDran]

I've been using this for months.

[Tom]

Remote "desktop" existed since the beginning of computers. At one point you would have logged into your colleges mainframe though a terminal emulator. I don't think remote desktop is going to be the future, but it's pretty cool and defiantly be more prominent.

Soon enough, computers will have a system where all you buy is the monitor with an ethernet jack. The computer itself is somewhere else in the world with incredible hardware, but you get to control it locally. Can you imagine the possibilities with this?

This actually exist right now, but I don't see it (and wouldn't want it) to replace PCs anytime soon.

Oh and another thing: This makes it possible to play Blockland though the iPod touch. It just doesn't work very well.

[MackTheHunter]

I know about OnLive, that's what I was basing it upon

[Sheath]

I don't like the idea of not buying a computer but just buying the client to access it. I want what I pay for in my house, where nobody can forget with it. Just buying a monitor, keyboard, and ethernet plug will never happen-- its hugely impractical anyway. I'd rather just stick a tower in my cupboard and use a wireless mouse and wireless screen, which is more plausible for the future (you can buy wireless VGA sets).

[Kalphiter]

Been using RDP for a server
Works nicely.

[brawlman14365]

Windows within Windows

yo dawg

[Oasis]

I like having my computer here though...

[Teneksi]

Tried that OnLive thing. Could barely shoot a damn thing. It was a neat idea, but latent graphics should never happen. It's against nature, I tell you.

[Bisjac]

its a cool idea for tencho-idiots who just want to play on a facebook and write a paper for class.

but for tech savvy people its gay as all hell.
half the fun of the PC gamer hobby is the buying, upgrading, and upkeeping of the personal hardware.

if there isnt any "pc" hardware anymore. then game companies no longer have that range of possibilities to develop around. they just await the announcement of specs from the new remote hardware and develop solely for that, to last the next 4 years before the next remote upgrade.

[AztekaMexico]

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

I think Bill Gates has a point

[Monocle]

Not really the future, because physical computers will never become truly obsolete. Especially considering a remote connection would NEVER be done for the government, makes hacking way easier.