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Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud

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Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud

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Post by chickenpotpie »

Nullabillity wrote: post #3

Wow, mixing monthly and hourly pricing like that is borderline fraud. Especially when you advertise it as a $8/mo service when the actual price for a typical 160h work month is $215. For the cheapest option. That's 26x the advertised price! At that point, buying an equivalent computer yourself would break even in months. And it'd work without a stable internet connection! Here in Sweden all taxis advertise the compon…

I wouldn't call it fraud, just confusing.

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Post by eckles »

hasancanyasar wrote: post #2

Hey HN! vagon is a personal cloud-computer that is built to help creatives with flexible performance. Architects, CAD designers, video editors, animators, researchers - they all need powerful computers to create things and that’s what we are trying to provide. Our goal is to make running graphics software such as Adobe or Autodesk products possible even from a Chromebook or a veteran Macbook Air. After a lot of hard…

How do you differentiate from Paperspace Workstream[0] or Parsec Teams[1]?

[0] https://workstream.paperspace.com/ [1] https://www.parsecgaming.com/teams/

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Post by hasancanyasar »

KerryJones wrote: post #8
hasancanyasar wrote: post #2

Hey HN! vagon is a personal cloud-computer that is built to help creatives with flexible performance. Architects, CAD designers, video editors, animators, researchers - they all need powerful computers to create things and that’s what we are trying to provide. Our goal is to make running graphics software such as Adobe or Autodesk products possible even from a Chromebook or a veteran Macbook Air. After a lot of hard…

Just a thought -- chromebooks are often being used in school setting as a cheap alternative to having an expensive Macbook Pro or something equivalent. A student discount could go a long way.

We're working on it right now :) we plan to announce it in the coming weeks. Glad to see it makes sense to other people as well.

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Post by chickenpotpie »

wulfricin wrote: post #12
paultopia wrote: post #10

So, like, AWS + remote desktop?

I think the idea is it comes pre-prepared for people who cannot spawn an environment from scratch on AWS or any other cloud provider for their purpose

To be fair AWS does offer that https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=3. But, Vagon is somehow cheaper than AWS, which I almost never see.

Re: Vagon – Personal high performance computer in the cloud

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Post by ornel »

Nice interface and very easy to set up, it's great I could get to try it without entering any payment methods.

I actually need a Linux machine (for GIS with QGIS), it would be nice to get other OS options aside from Windows. I also wanted to sync my Dropbox folders but stopped short of typing my password in the VM after installing the Dropbox client, as I have no idea what kind of security you are using.

Something else, I had it in fullscreen mode on Firefox, but then every time I went back to my guest OS it triggered a resize of the guest, which was kind of annoying. Maybe it would be good to choose whether I want a scaled view.

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