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by vytautask 3871 days ago
Just buy an ultrabook/some laptop with good screen, good network card and long-lasting battery. If heat is the problem for you, I would suggest some aluminum-encased laptop that would disperse heat more easily. IMHO, probably Google chromebook (https://www.google.com/chromebook/) is the kind of device you are looking for...

Also what you need is a remote desktop app. There are quite a few nowadays (from "Remote Desktop" in Windows, to TeamViewer, VNC or etc.). A quite good list is in wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_s... .
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imakesnowflakes 3871 days ago
Yes. I know about those. I am a software developer.

Buying an ultrabook/laptop just for continence seem a bit overkill to me. Those are not exactly cheap. But that is not the point. The point is how much untapped potential is there in existing systems. I think we should be trying to extract as much value from the existing set up, before buying more redundant stuff. We already have wireless keyboards and mouse. We just need an Lcd with bundled transmitter/reciever with enough bandwidth. Making It is quite trivial compared to the convenience it will provide. It might even be able to support multiple users. Put one desktop in your basement, and the whole family can use these dumb wireless terminals.

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vytautask 3871 days ago
"Bundled with transmitter/receiver" is the tricky part. How would you configure such device? How it would know where and how to convert/send/receive signal? To solve those basic problems you'll need some computational power. There we arrive at thin clients (for example like those: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/cloud-client-computing?stp...). Some of them do have wireless connectivity...
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imakesnowflakes 3871 days ago
In the same way wireless keyboards and mouses work. You use a receiver/transmitter pair. It does not require any computational power. A receiver can be tuned to a particular transmitter. We might have to encrypt the display transmission. But it am sure it can be done using dedicated hardware.
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joefarish 3871 days ago
Sounds like you just want a wireless display adapter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiDi
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imakesnowflakes 3871 days ago
Yes. That is what I am talking about. It seems like there are already cheap devices that can do wireless HDMI streaming [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps...

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rahimnathwani 3869 days ago
You're not going to like the latency of using Airplay or similar over wifi, unless you're doing something non-interactive (like watching a movie).
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