Users came to work and sat at a desk that had a PC that rarely moved.
All access points, including the headphone and HDMI ports are within easy reach so there is no searching around under the desk or behind large PC towers.
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Malicious software is slowly migrating from the PC on your desk to the smartphone in your pocket.
Braswell has a Mac and a PC on her desk and keeps an Amiga 1200 warm at home.
So is the space for that PC tower under the desk with a fan whirring away.
Put a MakerBot on your desk and connect it to your PC with a USB cable.
While the goal of the initiative is to move PC gaming from the desk to the living room, that doesn't necessarily involve a single hardware standard or minimum spec, Valve hardware engineer Jeff Keyzer told Engadget in an interview this morning at CES 2013.
Whereas tablet PCs are full-blown PCs that contain all their components inside the casing of a notebook-sized flat-screen display, smart displays are light, portable display screens that connect wirelessly to a PC, so a user can interact with the PC away from the desk for reading documents or surfing the Web.
Put a Cius into its dock with a landline handset connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse, and it could load your virtual Mac or Windows desktop and act just like a traditional PC as well as a desk phone.
End users would come into the office and work on a PC, which sat on a desk and was connected by a wire to a port on the wall.
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Indeed, even though tablet and smart phone sales surpassed PC sales over two years ago, there remain a significant amount of business processes that are best accomplished at something resembling a desk, using something that is much more akin to a PC than a phone or tablet.
To get a hands-on view of what the use of personal devices has meant for IT, I turned to Brian Madocks, CEO of PC Helps, a services firm that provides supplemental help desk support for companies of all sizes.
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An optional Bluetooth keyboard, docking station and mouse add further convenience and create a desktop PC experience for business users planning to settle in at a desk while traveling.
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