It just depends on what kind of work you do. As mentioned some folks need a desktop for the speed and power and others like me only need a laptop. And some like you just need a terminal.
Everything old is new again.
Yeah, some, like me, do advanced 3D modeling and graphics. My "terminal" connects to a VDI with Xeon processors, 48GB of RAM, and Nvidia GRID graphics.
Right and that's insane horsepower for a laptop though would be awesome.
We have three levels of VDI, all connect to the same terminal. Mine is the "mid level", we have one with more horsepower, and one with less for people who mostly use MS Office.
I will be interested to see what pricing is going to be. More than a current 6 tuner Vox? I know they cleared out a lot of Bolt/Vox in the recent promos. If price the same I'd guess another sale on remaining Bolt/Vox. Am really waiting to see what pricing will be on the OTA model when it comes out..................... Wonder if they will ever do a cable/OTA in one model, probably not.
For that type of work you'll need power and storage. That's more specialized and custom where towers actually make sense.
That's a big reason I'm holding onto my Roamio Basic.
It would surprise me if it could be rolled back to TE3. In general, once companies deprecate a particular OS, they don't support it on new models that roll out thereafter. Like how you can't install an earlier version of MacOS than the one that ships on a new Mac.
yep back to the mainframe/terminal era.
I asked that and they said no. As a matter of fact, they said that an upcoming build (don't know when) would stop Bolts from downgrading to TE3.
I guess the die has been cast, thanks for the update!
I understand TiVo's motivation, but this also will dis-incentivize people who are on TE3 from trying TE4, including as the latter continues improving/adds further features over time.
Unless, they do the logical thing. (Something the TE4 never was and never will be) Go to TE5.
