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Where are you running it? AWS?

We did a lot of prototyping on AWS and still use them a lot, but really we are pretty agnostic as to where the VM lives. We need nvidia GRID cards (which is what we use to scrape the remote desktop really fast and which AWS has for prototyping) but the rest is pretty off the shelf. So currently its a pretty hybrid system

How much bandwidth should the user have for smooth experience?

P.S I am from India and its difficult to find more than 2 Mbps internet bandwidth with ease here.

This is a really important question. I am from India and good bandwidth is a luxury here.

Their website states 20MB down with 60ms latency. This seems like a high value in general.

Seems like they will have very less amount of users from developing countries like India then.

Sad even I will not be able to use it.

Not just a problem with developing countries. I have 100 Mb at home so that's not a problem, but the main use case I see for this for me is to able to use it while traveling. Even in countries with a great high speed internet in general, getting great high speed internet in a hotel room or conference center is almost impossible.

20MB down is too much to ask for even here in the States.

Hopefully it'll scale down gracefully when not doing graphics-intensive work. RDP is quite usable even with 100ms latency and only a few Mbps. OTOH I guess nothing's stopping you from renting a machine from Amazon now.

I'd just be worried if they use H.264 that there's not lossless compression on most UI elements. RDP falls back to lossy video-compression like behaviour under pressure, and it looks terrible and quite unusable. For Photoshop and graphics apps, sure. But for text and most UI elements, ouch.

Copy says >15Mb at the moment.

Funky way to denote minimum - reminds me of the "Recommended" specs on a videogame.

That rules out me, but it's a nice reminder of how much of an obstacle to innovation lack of broadband can be.

but nvidia is building their own similar service, www.nvidia.com/object/trygrid.html, how will you differentiate?

From my understanding, trygrid is aimed at supporting specific applications. Paperweight is the entire PC sort of like how you would lease a VPS.

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