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by noen 529 days ago
Thin client - no big deal. $30-300 per month per device? LOL. Dead on arrival.
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That 30-300 dollars is just the range of virtual machines you are connecting to-- I can't imagine it is very surprising that a personal VM starts at around 30 dollars per month and GPU-enabled machines would be substantially more expensive. A quick spot check suggests this pricing is in line with the same type of offerings available in AWS (~$30-$1000) https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces-family/workspaces/pricing/.
The cost of 30 to 300 is the cost of the cloud pc, with or without this device. The device just provides a secure way to access it.

For context

For 30 you get 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM,64 GB Storage. For 300 you get 16 vCPU,64 GB RAM, 1 TB Storage.

https://www.microsoft.com/en/windows-365/enterprise/all-pric...