[Discuss] Laptop as a remote access device?

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

I'm not sure of your budget, but this is more or less how Google works
internally. Everyone has their own VM and use the laptop to access the VM.
Its kind of cool, but the people that opted for chromebooks, it seems to
me, eventually go laptop when its time to upgrade.


> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:46 PM Dale R. Worley <worley at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking into buying a laptop that's solely a remote access device,
>> that is, a portable way to use ssh/X windows server to connect to a
>> workstation that's at home.  Does anyone have advice?  It seems to me
>> the requirements are:
>
> Sorry for the late response...
>
> You might consider buying a Chromebook.   All recent chromebooks
> support installing
> a Linux environment which lets you run Linux programs including ssh.  They
> also
> support X apps for local display and I'm pretty sure you can use X
> forwarding via ssh to view X apps from
> remote machines.   Software support 5? years from initial hardware
> release, long battery life, inexpensive,
> many are designed to stand up to the abuse of school children, etc.
> Sounds like the perfect answer to your requirements
> to me.
>
> Bill Bogstad
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