Qwik: the SunRay may not be able to manipulate content, but the servers sure will, and as long as the pipe is thick enough to stuff compressed content down for rendering in real-time, the SunRay may have a huge advantage. For example, suppose you want to do some video editing on your PC. So, you go out and buy a 20GB disk for starters (soon be full), and MP3 compression card (plus firmware upgrades for the latest implementation), a wave-table synthesis card, a digital signal processing card, stuff them in your PC, set a few jumpers, install a bunch of incompatible software programs to drive them all, call tech support because your scanner just stopped working, oh, and there's smoke coming out....
Or use a SunRay, with an E100000 server with 10TB of disk, and some high-power DSP co-processors to do the crunching. All you have to do is expand the definition of what SunRay can render to include compressed audio-visual data, and you're there. Maybe in V2.0?
Corrections to this thought train appreciated.
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