Good idea or not?

[paulrockliffe]

At the moment I have a proper powerful PC that I use for most stuff, a HTC One X that I use when I'm out and about and an iPad (1) that I generally use in front of the TV. At the moment I don't really need the iPad, it's only plus point against the One X is that the battery lasts a lot longer.

So I was thinking, if I didn't have the iPad and wanted something to use infront of the TV that wasn't One X sized, I wouldn't be able to justify the purchase price of the iPad as I'd be paying for loads of hardware that I don't really need, all the processing power, ram, features etc.

What I need is a touch screen that connects to the WiFi network and through that to the PC, the PC runs a Windows session on the touch screen and sorts me out that way. No ram, no whizzy processors, no bluetooth, no 3G, no GPS. Should be cheap, should be light, should be really useful. Would work really well with Windows 8 as only the Metro (Surface) interface needs to be served up to the display.

Make it cheap enough and you can start embeding smaller screens in stuff around the house for controlling stuff, or in music centres etc.

Crap idea, or not?