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[NYTimes] Windows on the iPad, and Speedy (1GIGABYTE per second internet)

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...It's a tiny app - about 5 megabytes. When you open it, you see a standard Windows 7 desktop, right there on your iPad. The full, latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader are set up and ready to use - no installation, no serial numbers, no pop-up balloons nagging you to update this or that. It may be the least annoying version of Windows you've ever used....

...That's not a typo. And "1-gigabit Internet" means the fastest connection you've ever used in your life - on your iPad. It means speeds 500 or 1,000 times as fast as what you probably get at home. It means downloading a 20-megabyte file before your finger lifts from the glass....
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sorry, i can't quite wrap my head around this 2nd part... regardless of how fast their computers are receiving and putting out to you...wouldn't it still need to be transferred using some sort of conventional connection i.e. 3g/4g etc...thus limiting speeds?
 
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1 Gigabit =/= 1 Gigabyte
 
#12 ·
So.... I download a massive file with the virtual PC's super net connection... But now I want to transfer it to a home PC or something..... HELLO 2Mbps!!

Unless you use this service as something purely standalone from anything else, it would be quite good. But I know for sure that the internet in this country isn't good enough for a seamless truly mobile cloud experience.
 
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Originally Posted by lordikon View Post

You'd think after 3+ months of that they would have fixed it by now. That's happened to about 5 of my posts since then.
Yeah, I wonder how long it'll take to polish this system. It still feels "new" to me.

As for the topic at hand, it sounds cool but I'd just rather buy a Windows tablet. It's a shame there are so few of them that are any good (Windows 8 will likely change that). I've not bought into this whole "cloud" thing quite yet.
 
#21 ·
yes, i tried to edit... It would show up in the edit, but not in the save. also, yes it's a gigaBIT... not gigabyte... apologize... i still don't understand how it's possible.... the article for example says you could DL a 20mb file before your finger even leaves the screen (paraphrasing), but i don't understand it... regardless of how fast it's sent to you, how could you exceed your connection speed?
 
#24 ·
I would want this so I can run Windows applications on my Linux system...

Sounds too good to be true. Free? Holy crap. I could care less about the speeds. It is the fact that you can get a live Windows session free on your iPad that is really great. Now they just need to make it accessible from OS X and Linux, and I am sold
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Originally Posted by damian5000 View Post

yes, i tried to edit... It would show up in the edit, but not in the save. also, yes it's a gigaBIT... not gigabyte... apologize... i still don't understand how it's possible.... the article for example says you could DL a 20mb file before your finger even leaves the screen (paraphrasing), but i don't understand it... regardless of how fast it's sent to you, how could you exceed your connection speed?
You can't exceed your own speed. It just shows a remote desktop of a virtual machine on their server so all that gets sent to you is the visual of what is on their "screen". Imagine your iPad is just a virtual monitor keyboard mouse.
 
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