Home PC

[[AK]Nuts]

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

[[AK]Mydrial]

Your still screwed......

Max Distance 5m (16ft) Standard cables
10m (33ft) Long VGA/USB cables

[[AK]Sedious]

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!

[[AK]Squidly]

Remote desktop.

[[AK]Nuts]

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.

[[AK]Nuts]

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.