[wjnc]

It’s a 400W+ machine blazing under my desk, with relatively low performance per watt and per unit of cost and high depreciation per hour of usage. With 6 ms latency to my major IX and the stability and backup professionalism cloud providers can offer I’d be all in for online desktop. Perhaps I’d invest in a bit more beefy Synology as an internet-down local machine, but my phone or iPad could offer that functionality as well. Going from full machines to terminal-screens would also save my household of 5 many kgs of electronics. That times a few hundred million households sure adds up.

[kevin_thibedeau]

Only gaming rigs consume 400W routinely. My current devices are drawing as follows:

  PC             40W
  Monitor        27W
  NAS box        2.5W
  2x Hard drives 16W