BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called “The City of Light” or perhaps “The City of Love” by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel’s elevators, “The City of Bork” is more appropriate.
Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services.
Instead of enticing elevator riders into the undoubtedly delightful bars and restaurants of the establishment (apparently a Novotel not far from the Eiffel Tower) or whatever it should be doing, this screen has temptations of an altogether more technical nature.
A CometLake CPU? An i5 no less? Sort of up-to-date. And that 8 GB of RAM? The way memory prices are going, that might be enough to buy you a nice hotel room in some cities, and at least a decent coffee and a croque monsieur in Paris.
I wonder to how many more digital signs all over the world this applies to.
Literally all of them. They’re all hideously overkill for displaying a jpeg. But you can’t buy a newly made pentium 4, so you have to go with what’s in production.
On top of that they’re probably running windows too. Not even some slimmed down Linux.
I was thinking of something ARM
I’ve seen both. Well, usually Ubuntu, but the more embedded we speak the more slimmed down the OS is.
I think the problem are graphics. Big monitors, and these ads are like short movies in HD.