The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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Something that size, with a hardware if small qwerty keyboard, plus connectors to allow adding a full scale monitor, mouse and keyboard, would actually do me nicely.
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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.
The screen along the top of the tiny deck allows users that aren't proficient touch typers to see what they're pecking out, without looking back and forth between the keyboard and their monitor.
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This is a particular problem if you want to use the V5's microphone and speaker, because you have to keep the unit near the keyboard and monitor.
Based on wireless technology from Wisair, a leading provider of single-chip based Wireless USB solutions, the Easy Dock consists of a USB dongle that connects to your laptop and a receiver that connects to your monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers.
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And when connected to an external keyboard, mouse and monitor, which can be done through the media station, the Cius operates like a small computer.
An Ubuntu-equipped phone would plug into a dock connected to a keyboard and monitor, and the result would be a desktop computer of genuine value.
Canonical hopes that future devices (read: arriving sometime in 2014) will not only run the new mobile OS, but will also boot the desktop variant of Ubuntu when docked to a keyboard, mouse and monitor.
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But which can also be hooked up to a keyboard, mouse and larger monitor if you so wish.
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While its connected to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and other peripherals there is functionally no difference between a Windows 8 tablet and a traditional Windows 8 desktop or laptop PC.
In addition to its primary hardware specs, Surface also features a built in kickstand, which essentially turns the tablet into a monitor, and also a 3mm thin case that includes a multitouch keyboard.
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