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Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and "oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can't run your thin client"

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Network booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

not, it's booting from small storage, then it uses remote desktop