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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You apparently do need a computer to load the OS onto it. After that, all you need is a terminal to access it... in other words, a keyboard and screen... and those can be plugged into the 2 USB input ports.
Conceivably, you could also plug the device into a PDA, smartphone or a device like the Foleo, and use that to input commands and read output.
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What good would that do if a PDA or smartphone would have a stronger CPU than that USBthingie?
I just can't find much use for it as it is now, because you can't input anything because you can't hook anything up and you can't output anything because it has no screen...
Add it to an existing computer to do a specific job like a firewall? I think the first PC that has USB builtin would have a powerful enough CPU to do that task already.
Maybe... (and then i'm already far away in fantasy island) if you can change one of those photoframes (which are now quite popular) hook that thing up and have some kind of OS running, it might be of SOME use.... But then you'd think... why not just throw the CPU in the frame and use the USB-stick as what it's intended for? holding the data.