Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop

Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by sleepydog on Monday January 21, 2013 @06:43PM (#5094483)

I would like to see the rise of the home server. Cloud services have latency and privacy issues. Imagine a small, powerful and energy efficient server that you could tuck away in a closet and connect to your gigabit or faster network.

This server would provide all the horsepower, centralized storage, and session management (think IRC chat etc) that you need -- and you can access it on any device in your house.

Imagine a keyboard running a tiny OS that could detect the nearest registered display. You could write code on the TV for a few hours, walk over to a desk and pick up where you left off. That's what I would eventually like to turn my home into (by setting up a Plan 9 network and writing terminal clients for android set-top boxes), but it's hard to find the perfect home server.

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Re:Intel’s Profit Falls 27% as PC Sales Drop by DigitalSea on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:32PM (#5095188)

I've been dreaming of a home server revolution for years myself, but sadly due to the fact in Australia the Internet is slow and we're only just now rolling out a national 100mb fibre network which won't be finished for quite a few years and will be expensive with little guarantee of a decent data allowance doesn't give me much hope. Cloud storage is definitely not ready for the prime-time yet, I don't trust it and as Amazon has proven even they haven't even quite worked out how to reliably provide cloud services.

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