Neverware's Juicebox Offers Respite from Frequent PC Upgrades
Neverware's Juicebox Offers Respite from Frequent PC Upgrades
Posted 01/24/2011 at 5:50pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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A New York-based startup, Neverware, hopes to breathe new life into old computers with its Juicebox a100 virtual desktop appliance, which can deliver Windows 7 virtual desktops to one hundred terminals as long as they all meet its lenient hardware requirements: a 500MHz processor, 128MB RAM and an Ethernet port. In case you are wondering, it requires absolutely no hard drive storage on the client side. Having put the technology through its paces in a couple of schools, Neverware's 25-year-old founder Jonathan Hefter is now working on a beta.
It is more than likely that you have heard of something similar in the past, but to Hefter's credit he managed to come up with this impressive technology from the garage of his parents' house sans any formal computer education. Described as “quite a mensch” by his mother in an interview with the New York Observer, Hefter has always been driven by a strong desire to bring about change. He wants schools, city governments and non-profits to free themselves from the need to upgrade every four or five years at a huge environmental and economic cost. However, there is no word on the price of the Juicebox a100.
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Keith E. Whisman
January 25, 2011 at 11:08am
Those portable computers were awesome back in the day. Thanks for the picture.
Caboose
January 25, 2011 at 11:17am
ya, 'cause that's where he has his server farm!
Give your head a shake man...
pforbing
January 25, 2011 at 6:23am
you would be surprised where some data servers reside and unless it's Mark Zuckerberg, I think you will be fine.
d3v
January 24, 2011 at 11:11pm
Juicebox eh? I guess he can always go back to his lemonade stand if this doesn't work out....
Ghok
January 24, 2011 at 8:29pm
Good idea for an organization. This could also be incentive for hardware manufacturers to make hardware that's longer lasting.
Adromeda
January 24, 2011 at 7:29pm
I saw a similar implementation at my old high school, Virtualized computing makes sense, and saves money. It's the way of the future.
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