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A PC for Your Wall Power Socket... Yes it fits, no really a PC

parthsuthar.com — The Jack PC, a rival to the smallest PC in the world, can hook up to a standard monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and runs Windows CE, the stripped-down version of Windows often used in portable devices. It comes with up to 64 MB of flash memory and 128 megs of RAM, so don't expect to play Half-Life 2 on it, but it should be able to handle net stuff.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jun 30, 2007

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  • drjekelmrhyde, on 10/11/2007, -2/+52This is so OLD Gizmondo did this story in june 2006
    http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/jack-pc-the-wall-socket-pc-177564.php
    I seen this story on Fark also like a week ago
  • tito13kfm, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26How many times will I need to see this on the front page? Seriously
  • madtaco, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Doesn't everything, eventually?
  • woobster, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19But does it run linux?
  • christoast, on 09/04/2008, -2/+15Porn
  • craftyguy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12PoE
  • ScrabbyDoo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Windows CE? 64mb flash? 128mb ram?

    This is not a pc, this is a windows mobile pda with the power adapter duct-taped to the back of it.
  • brutalentropy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Sure, it's not that uncommon. Hell, one of the older apple airport base stations could be powered over ethernet.
  • toolegittoquit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Because there is no room for a transformer and you can't just run 110V or 220V through a 12V/5V Circuit.
    You ever notice the power block of a Mac Mini is almost as big as the Mac Mini?
    /electricity lesson
  • smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9i can see several applications for this. and as brutalentropy mentioned, they would be perfect for terminals. libraries could have these setup for searching their database or surfing the web. schools, offices, etc.--basically any time you need a dummy terminal or just a basic desktop to do a little word processing or web surfing but want to save space.
  • bmorrow, on 10/11/2007, -5/+14what would you use this for?
  • InSeverance, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10If it fits into a wall socket....why power it by ethernet?
  • squenix1221, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8direct link
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,39272166,00.htm
  • unruled, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6why not run linux on it?
  • atbnet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Are they running the server on this thing too? I guess you could set up a Beowulf cluster on a power strip...
  • imnojezus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8Not as a server apparently.
    DEAD.
  • wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Use it as a thin client and connect to a Citrix or Windows Terminal Server.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Use it for browsing the Internet and basic functions. Sure you can do this with a laptop and a wireless router, but I can definitely see the appeal for people building new homes who want to have 'cutting edge' technology built in. This one's going to come down to the pricec.
  • behn1220, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5You seen it, eh?
  • jiub, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4My guess is the size of the ac adapter/power supply which would probably end up being bigger than the computer itself
  • typographics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4nah, ill just let you sleep...forever...
  • pseudojd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4did you axe any other farkers what they thought of it?
  • partyfavor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4here are the prices
    http://www.jadeintegration.com/prices.php?m=chippc
  • twtmc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I could see them using this mostly in places like schools and libraries.
  • Sixcolors, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3From the Gizmodo article: "The main purpose of is to run a thin client to connect to a server so you can do most of the processing off of this device. Also, Internet Explorer 6 is included to access web applications such as your gmail or gcal."
  • spyrochaete, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3dated May 2006
  • tb0n3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A standard ethernet cable has 8 wires. 100 BaseT connections only use 4 of the wires (1,2,3 and 6). Most PoE implementations today use the other wires (4, 5, 7 and 8) So, unless you REALLY need gigabit (hardly anybody ever really needs gigabit), it will work just fine. And even then, there are ways to get gigabit to use PoE, with phantoming packets.
  • will-rom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You can still have PoE on Gigabit.
  • crossmr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Because you may not always have a jack available? Why run 2 wires if you can run 1? Why run 100 if you can run 50?
  • localzuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3His is sourced to Gizmodo... So you both stole it then?
  • Jo9100, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5digg effect > wall PC server
  • brutalentropy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The company I work for has dummy terminals running Windows CE in some of our pharmacies. We use them for telnet. You can also do some limited web browsing on them.
  • g3r4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah, I know what you mean. Pretty Old. Here's the Mini Computers I've found.

    http://www.jadeintegration.com/jackpc.php
    http://www.picotux.com/producte.html
    http://www.linutop.com/
    http://www.littlepc.com/
  • Sixcolors, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Almost dugg for neat-o factor, but then I realized it was a blog ripped from a Gizmodo article... from over one year ago.
  • localzuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I have tested these and they are superb for what they are intended - thin clients, don't think they are a full fledged pc, as they aren't. They are well built too (the casing is metal etc... so if you're gonna use em in a school the kids'll have more difficulty breaking them). The main things with them is the very well thought out management software you can buy to go with them and the fact that they only use 5W of power.

    Also, if you deal with a third party distributor rather than chippc direct you will likely get fairly low prices (I have been quoted £200 each for the bottom end models).

    NOTE: I do not work for them, I work for a school in Somerset, England.
  • goeric, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That is really cool. It may be old, but I never knew about it until this post.

    Thanks Digg, again :)!
  • pritch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I don't know about that, I can see a market for it. The company I used to work for was just going over to thin clients for desktop users when I left just over a year ago, and my bank has thin clients for all their staff, so this sort of thing is in use (albeit just not that small in the vast majority of cases)
  • mississippiman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I actually have some dumb terminals kinda like this
  • lispy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'd use it in comination with an external harddrive serving Music and Movies around the house.
  • skratchnerd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2what is going to get stolen?
  • g3r4, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm thinking Xfce for the desktop, because GNOME and KDE would kick this things ass. Blackbox if even Xfce is a little to punchy.
  • daRoach, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2My heart.
  • sinkhead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is fairly old, my school considered getting these but then didn't because the graphics were really bad...
  • kamisama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Exactly the same as I was thinking. I'm getting one to place next to the electrical socket where all my hifi gear is setup, put a small 15inch LCD somewhere on the hifi rack and a wireless usb keyboard and mouse, then stream audio to my hifi system that is stored on NAS or streaming audio from the web.
  • localzuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Because Windows CE is what the manufacturer has chosen as its platform for development. I asked the ChipPC rep about this and he said that maybe in the future different platforms would be used but not yet.
  • 0KonTroL0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is a thin client ppl. :S
  • techmaster7b, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Really old.
  • localzuk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh and also, the company is not a UK company, it is actually made by the company 'Chippc' who are an Israeli company with several offices around the world. Jade integration is a reseller.
  • sid0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You mean HURD?
  • Derrekito, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah it's been on digg at least a million times.
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