[tobijkl]

At least in my bubble, even professional developers, video editors, and audio engineers use a desktop computer as their primary daily driver and do not rely on their laptop for computational power rather than as a medium for presenting their work. Some of them are even switching to tablets for presenting to clients. A desktop computer will always offer more computational power and a more straightforward and cheaper update path. Why update a perfectly well-working laptop for a newer model when you have become accustomed to the quirks and features of your current device.

[amerkhalid]

This is exactly what I am doing now except my desktop is in cloud. For months, I was researching laptops, I am currently 13" MBP user but was debating switching to Windows laptop. However, if it was going to be able to run video games, it was turning into $2000+ purchase. Plus pretty big to be portable.

Then I discovered Shadow PC. For $12 a month, I have pretty powerful machine. My MBP is now a simple thin client. When it dies, I ll buy the cheapest Macbook. Also I use 21" external monitor or my TV to play games. Works great.

Also been using it for ML projects but unfortunately they will shutdown the VM if it doesn't receive user input. So long running processes require you to be sitting by the machine.

I am a big user of iPad and their iPad app is awesome. If I can figure out right dongle tobl hook up hdmi, keyboard, and mouse, I might just never buy another laptop.

[smarx007]

> [...] using the remote computer provided by Blade for business or commercial services or purposes, or even in such a way that the purpose or effect is to make all or part of the Services available to third parties, in return for payment or free of charge; or even using Shadow® as a server or with Software that has the function of a server;

I think you are pretty much in violation of ToS the moment you install Docker and start any container or start debugging your networked code. I mean, it sounds a bit too good to be true, it's even cheaper than COTS hardware from Hetzner.

> Also been using it for ML projects but unfortunately they will shutdown the VM if it doesn't receive user input. So long running processes require you to be sitting by the machine.

Ah, that makes sense. They are betting that people need sleep and under normal usage patterns you will never use the machine 24/7 and then $36 (8h/day back-of-the-napkin math) works out to something similar to Hetzner prices.