"DeviceVM's SplashTop is sharing a booth this week at the CES with ASUS. At their booth we were allowed to check out a SplashTop demo running on an ASUS notebook! This notebook has yet to be introduced by ASUS, but it's intended for high-end gaming and comes with SplashTop Linux as a complementary operating system. This version of SplashTop is slightly updated and has new features too."
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Member since:2006-02-15
I don't really understand what use are multimedia apps in SplashTop... They would be at their best in a real OS installation. But internet access is good for checking help sites et al, a disk utility would be an absolutely brilliant addition (f.ex. GParted, but something more advanced would be nice too), and sure, CD/DVD burning utility so you could download a CD image from the internet and burn it, then reboot with that. And well, it would be nice if SplashTop included an utility for controlling all the hardware aspect of the motherboard, just as you said, clocking, fan control, memory timings and so on. I just came to think that they seem to try to make SplashTop and OS replacement which is totally wrong direction IMHO. I think it should be more like a greatly advanced BIOS, disk and hardware diagnostics utility..Then it would be like a system builders' wet dream. I know, I have been building systems almost my whole life :/
Member since:2007-09-06
Member since:2007-03-26
Why not just use a paper clip over the reset / power switch jumbers?
Seems a bit pointless having onbaord buttons when geeks know the jumpers and non-techies wouldn't be running a mobo outside of a computer case
Edited 2008-01-14 17:42 UTC
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2005-07-08
No, SplashTop should focus on connectivity and multimedia consumption. It doesn't need any productivity software at all. It should be able to read and write to the internal hard disk (the current version doesn't). A multi-protocol file transfer client would be nice, as would a CD/DVD burning utility.
It would be especially neat to have a VMM that allows the user to boot one or more operating systems from SplashTop and rapidly toggle between them (like virtual terminals). I'm surprised that Asus hasn't already demonstrated an intention to bring an advanced utility for clocking, fan control, and thermal monitoring to SplashTop.