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Home PC
Just a rant...
Why do I need so many damn computers in my house?
1. Media PC hooked up to big screen in living room. Used to watch movies and stream music
2. Game PC / My primary PC
3. Wife's PC
4. Laptop for around the house, on the patio, while watching TV, etc
5. Kids PC for educational games
Why can't someone develop a means of having a single computer that can be simultaneously accessed from multiple locations? I'm sure many of you have at least 2 computers in your house. Aren't any of you smart enough to solve this problem for me?
---never mind. http://www2.userful.com/products/userful-multiplier
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Your still screwed......
Max Distance 5m (16ft) Standard cables
10m (33ft) Long VGA/USB cables
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Im in the same boat. kids laptop, my work laptop, my wife's work laptop, my desktop. We have a Wii and Xbox360 in different rooms for streaming Netflix and web browsing. I guess my router is taking beating!
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remote desktop requires you to have a computer to connect to a computer. I want one computer, out in the garage and then just have monitors/tvs/keyboards/mice scattered around the house.
Collectively, I've got about 18GB of RAM, 5 processors, 5 video cards... just scattered around in various computers. And rarely are all the computers being used at the same time.
I shouldn't require a computer to watch downloaded movies on my TV in the living room. I just need a video cable connected to the main PC. (and ya, 33ft is a bitch)
A single, home computer that is accessible everywhere. Trust me, one day it'll be the norm.
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One computer.
It has multiple fiber-optic transport cards that handle keyboard/video/mouse.
The fiber is run to every room.
At the fiber jack in the room, you plug in a KVM dongle.
You can then set up TV's or monitors where ever you want and do full, shared computing.
Use wireless keyboard/mouse to get to the KVM dongle on the wall jack.
Each user is allocated his own processor QoS so that one person can't hog all of the resources.
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You should get another PC to control the others, and buy a backup to that one in case its fails.
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Ya... would want to balance load as well... one file server, maybe a mail server, and a game server... oh, and a torrent server as well. I'd want a hot fail-over for full redundancy. I'd want off-site backup so I'd need some cloud computing as well.
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We here at BOFA can assist you with all that and charge you a fee...
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The long video cable/keyboard thing isn't going to work. If you want to watch downloaded videos on your tv, get a boxee box, or an Apple TV, or stream netflix through your XBox, Wii, or DVD Blue-ray.
But yeah, I'd just get a PC and a laptop and call it a day (and I did.)
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Yeah, if all you're sending is text, it's awesome. Try chaining a few VGA monitor cables together to get any size run and see how it looks. :P
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Maybe I could simplify the set up:
http://www.treehugger.com/50-year-old-computer.jpg
Maybe go with a all-in-one setup AND maintain a cool nautical theme to it.
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The iPad works amazingly well as a "mobile Internet" device for the house. You can even stream to it and also stream from it to a connected TV.
