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Story: UK firm to unveil wall-socket PC

Posted by: Tech Support (Thursday 1 June 2006, 7:27 PM)

Seee www.jackpc.co.uk for more stats, prices and UK purchasing info. In the US check out www.chippc.com.

No Linux variants (yet) but doubtless this will happen later down the line. A Red-Hat o/s image is actually more expensive than the installed WinCE kernel-only license. Sorry! Please bear in mind these are predominantly designed to work with the embedded RDP / ICA client and in most cases you're NOT going to use them as a PC!

The unit is part of the 'flex jack' system so swapping out is incredibly simple. The unit just clips into the socket and can be removed / swapped for a range of other devices (RJ45 socket, 4/6 port managed switch, wireless hotspot etc.) using a special security key.

You could use the USB ports for external storage but we would advise disabling these as it's a potential security risk. The ports are USB 2.0 compatible but at the moment only run at 1.1 speed - the limitation comes from the current CPU speed which limits it to 1.1.
Next month, the end of June 2006, Chip PC are releasing Xtreme PC-EX-NG series that are RoHS compliant with improved hardware specs, for which it will be USB 2.0 supported.

Hope this answers some of your questions.

Kind regards,

Jade Integration Technical Support
www.jadeintegration.com