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I was thinking about this setup as well, but wasn't sure if I was nuts. What setup are considering? Plug a hefty quad core tower in at home and then use a chromebook as a remote control with a screen?

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I have a quad-core tower with 12GB of RAM and an SSD, that primarily runs a Windows 8 and Xubuntu VM. Performance over the local network almost feels like bare-metal.

I don't use Chrome Remote Desktop though, just VNC or Vmware Shared access through Crouton on my Chromebook.

My biggest concern with RDP is the screen res. I'd love to be able to use Visual Studio from a "dumb client", but the resolutions on the Chromebooks seems to kinda suck. I'm hoping for a 1080p one at least; but choices seem rather limited in the UK :(

Is there a good site for how to do a setup like this? It feels like it could be really nice. A beefy box with a wired connection that can capture a TV signal and broadcast wifi would be an swesome consumer appliance. Control it via Chromebooks, tablets, phones or whatever.

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