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#13
Originally Posted by meshsmooth
a VNC viewer that uses the D pad on the 770 to navigate around a full resolution screen on your home machine would at least give you the power of your home machine any ware in the house.
Yes, that will work, but keep in mind that VNC is designed to allow you a remote view of any desktop and it does this by reproducing the remote desktop as a static bitmap which has to be sent over the network every time the display is refreshed. VNC's protocol, RFB (remote frame buffer) only knows pixels and user input. X, however, is designed to allow you a remote view of any desktop that has X installed, and it does so by generating a remote display dynamically, using the power of the native X primitives. If you use X you will have a much better experience because X knows a lot more about the display than the pixels that compose it.

VNC is a very nice remote display tool and it has the advantage of not requiring X on the remote desktop, but when you have X on the remote computer it's a shame to ignore the inherent advantage of X as the best remote display protocol ever invented.

If things are done right, X will far outperform VNC and is far more versatile. It's what puts the graphics and user input there in the first place; it only makes sense to use X when you're using the 770 as a remote display device instead of ignoring it.

I'm not speaking of theory here - I've seen the difference and VNC can't compare to X when the remote display's job is to open a remote window to an X application. Use the right tool for the job - don't use VNC when you should be using X.

If you're doing VNC, then at least be sure to use NX. I hope somebody who knows this better than I will jump in here because the goal is for the 770 to use the right tool for the job, and for it to open up our eyes to the power of network computing which means remote display computing. And that means collaborative computing.

Nobody in the planet understands all of the issues of remote (i.e., network) computing all that well. This is a whole new beginning and a lot of things that made sense in the PC desktop world do not make sense in the network computing era. The PC desktop era will soon be seen as a the way we used computers in the brief time before 770-type devices changed everything into network computing. Everything has to be rethought. Keep your minds open, learn about X, especially as a network-transparent display protocol and refocus all your energies from merely enhancing tools to enhancing the applications. X has come back to life. There are many very talented people working on it to make it better in every way. Learn about it and you'll get far more out of your 770 than if you just treat it like it's a mere Windows Pocket PC. It's anything but that.