If you look back the cloud storage came up here
A thin client almost by definition doesn’t have any local storage - you can’t save anything locally and possibly not even on a flash drive. And while I haven’t lost internet connectivity at home for any length of time since Hurricane Sandy, the network at my job has a few outages a year - which means I can’t get to any of my files.
This sounds like a terrible idea. Not only can the internet fail or slow down, but the “spinal cord” between a hard drive and the rest of the computer is a lot shorter than the “spinal cord” between the cloud and the computer.
Using the cloud as a backup makes sense (because hard drives fail). Using it to store the majority of your info makes sense (I can wait a second to watch an old video) provided you pay for it once. Using the cloud to run your Operating System does not make sense.
The “Cloud” sounds great until it goes away. Then you’ve lost everything, permanently. I have two or more backups for anything important - and that that level, why do I need a cloud? (I use it for software too big to store conveniently, but that’s it, and I strongly prefer to have the option of local storage for that if practical.)
Your own cite says it has 4x optical zoom and the rest is software zoom. What makes the latter tolerable is a 48mp sensor, so when you throw away resolution there’s still some left.
That review is wrong. And read the link on superresoution again.
I don’t think desktop PCs will become obsolete. Their main advantage is speed, which laptops and other devices can’t compare. For laptops, a higher level of speed would mean overheating because of their construction. So, for some operations, desktops are the best choice.
Network loss is a potential risk, but the ‘spinal cord’ thing is not an issue - with a thin client solution, the computation takes place on cloud resources, adjacent to the storage, and potentially with far greater performance than the same cost would buy you at home due to economies of scale, and with a faster internet connection of its own. All that’s coming through the pipe is a streamed view of the desktop.
I understand that in theory this is supposed to work well but my (minimal) experience has been uncomfortable latency for anything not sitting on the table in front of me.
Which is weird. We’re mostly doing desktop PC stuff, not fragging n00bs halfway across the country. Maybe the vidya game companies don’t have the rabbit hole stuffed with eleventysix layers of security.
Dunno - I use cloud based computing on a daily basis and latency generally hasn’t been a problem for me. In fact there are quite a few cases where I explicitly choose to run a task on a cloud machine because I know it will perform better.
Maybe for some types of usage such as gaming it might need an optimised solution to deal with any display latency - I have heard good things about Shadow ( https://shadow.tech/ ) - I’m thinking of using it for my video editing and rendering