http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/ Engadget Comments for Dell slips out OptiPlex 980 desktop, FX100 Zero Client http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/
For the most part Optiplex is used in the business. I know I've seen them at Comcast, H&R Block and even at my job we use various models of Optiplex. They're pretty reliable PC's for the most part and whenever the time comes that a part goes down you can easily swap it out on the fly.

I guess I'll be looking forward to one of these in about a year when we upgrade our systems...]]>Mar 3rd 2010 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/
It's my current virtual machine server - runs great even without VT.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/I do. They are friggin stylish :D]]>Mar 3rd 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/
If you're wondering who cares about these announcements, it's volume IT buyers. And, indirectly, the people at the large companies that get assigned these machines.

I'm surprised at the $807 price -- I would have assumed that these machines were much cheaper. Perhaps they are, on a volume basis; maybe $807 is the price that an individual would pay, in order to have the same computer at home that they use at work.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/I'd say this is pretty common when a new line first comes out. In a few months these guys will start at $590 - $790.]]>Mar 3rd 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/Mar 3rd 2010 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/dell-slips-out-optiplex-980-desktop-fx100-zero-client/
So, you take this box and plug two monitors, keyboard, mouse, network cable, speakers, USB devices into it and it connects all of that to your virtual PC running on a beast of a server back in the data center.

That box is specifically for virtual environments, and it does what it does very well. PCoIP is worlds better than anything RDP-based, and once a few kinks get worked out it will be king of the virtual client marketplace.

And, one of the previous posters is right - having a fully virtualized desktop environment is incredible, not only for what it gives the users, but just that the technology exists at all. ]]>Mar 4th 2010 2:26PM