iPad, and remote desktop to Win7

[fallout man]

Has anyone tried this?

I was fucking around earlier today with the TeamViewer app for iPhone and an XP laptop. It worked amazingly seamlessly (if you ignore the Wi-Fi lag).

What I'm thinking about is buying a 16GB iPad and a bluetooth keyboard just for remote-desktop action to my nice and fast machine at home.

I do a lot of image-analysis work, and the biggest problem for me is CPU-related slowness. It would be a dream if I could get myself a new toy, and also use it to remote-desktop to home where I can really crunch things out fast.

This is probably way too weird (and not really optimal) of a configuration for you guys, but I can dream a dream, no?

 

[TheWart]

I use my iphone to VNC into my windows home server comp and it works just fine, even over 3G.

Using VNC/Logmein/etc is one of the things I think is coolest about the iPad and when I get one I definitely plan on doing that.

It works for this guy:
http://tugrik.livejournal.com/834583.html

 

[fallout man]

I use my iphone to VNC into my windows home server comp and it works just fine, even over 3G.

Using VNC/Logmein/etc is one of the things I think is coolest about the iPad and when I get one I definitely plan on doing that.

It works for this guy:
http://tugrik.livejournal.com/834583.html

The issue for me, from a couple of test runs that I've done while playing, is that the desktop updates come rather slow. I don't really expect to have super-realtime desktop, pixel-to-pixel updates. It doesn't really matter if I have to deal with lag to get the final result of the analysis, as long as I'm able to work with it. Again, this is really kind of boutique in the sense that no sensible person would try to remote-desktop to do image work...

I can still dream a dream, yo.

And by that I mean that maybe the iPad is a bit faster in processing this stuff than an iPhone 3G (not 3GS).

 

[BD2003]

Does that app use vnc or rdp? I find that rdp is a zillion times faster, not to mention, built in. I've certainly used an rdp viewer on my iPhone with great success to set things up to run such as an encode, but I'd have a hard time imagining using it as a real time desktop...but over wifi, I could see it working just fine as long as you can deal with the lag. It really helps to reduce the color depth, but that clearly would not be an option for you.

 

[Emulex]

rdp sucks on non-windows systems - no GDI to pass - so its like vnc - bitmap - laggy.

rdp on a mac is WAY more usable over wan if you run windows xp in a VM and go that route versus the RDP mac client.

especially if vpn or packet loss starts to come into play.

 

[Nothinman]

rdp sucks on non-windows systems - no GDI to pass - so its like vnc - bitmap - laggy.

I've never had any drawing performance problems with rdesktop on Linux.

 

[Emulex]

its just slower than GDI to GDI - and with the newer RDP7 you can route high def streams through rdp and some games and directsound/x.

since those don't exist on non-windows platform you have to return to bitmap compression. wayyy slower.

 

[Nothinman]

its just slower than GDI to GDI - and with the newer RDP7 you can route high def streams through rdp and some games and directsound/x.

since those don't exist on non-windows platform you have to return to bitmap compression. wayyy slower.

And? I highly doubt anyone really cares about playing hi-def audio or games over RDP and if someone does they should be hit very hard.

 

[theeedude]

$500 for a dumb terminal sounds pretty steep. Why not just get a HP Slate that runs Win7 natively, if that's what you want to use?

 

[TheWart]

$500 for a dumb terminal sounds pretty steep. Why not just get a HP Slate that runs Win7 natively, if that's what you want to use?

Going out on a limb here...but for one the slate isnt even out and its rumored starting price is....$550.

nice try

 

[ViRGE]

its just slower than GDI to GDI - and with the newer RDP7 you can route high def streams through rdp and some games and directsound/x.

since those don't exist on non-windows platform you have to return to bitmap compression. wayyy slower.

Even on RDP6 the difference can be pretty big at times. Just from RDPing in to my WHS box, there's a clear difference when doing it from Windows, from Mac OS X (MS's client), and from Linux (Ubuntu's default client). Neither the Mac nor the Linux clients is as fluid as the Windows client is for whatever reason.

With that said, the last time I used VNC (and this was a couple of years ago) it was still slower than RDP in a Windows host Mac OS X guest configuration. So RDP is still better than the primary alternative.