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AMP is a software maintenance and support program provided by NComputing to allow LEAFOS devices to receive the latest firmware updates. Each device must have its own current AMP license to continue to receive firmware updates. An active AMP license must be maintained to receive the described benefits. Renewing an expired AMP license is applied retroactively to the date that the previous license expired.

Each LEAFOS device comes with a 1-year subscription to AMP. This allows the device to receive firmware updates applied locally or pushed from NComputing PMC Endpoint Management Software. When the AMP license expires the device can no longer receive firmware updates. Subscription to AMP must be purchased and applied to the device in order to once again be able to push firmware updates from PMC. An active AMP license must be maintained to receive the described benefits. Renewing an expired AMP license is applied retroactively to the date that the previous license expired.

The RX300 thin client is based on the Raspberry Pi 3B, while the new RX300+ thin client is based on the Raspberry Pi 3B+. Both thin clients have the same exact features and functionalities and can be managed by vSpace Console and PMC Endpoint Manager. The key differences are:

RX300: Ethernet is 10/100; WiFi is 2.4GHz (802.11 b/g/n); CPU is 1.2GHz
RX300+ Ethernet is gigabit; WiFi is dual-band 5 / 2.4GHz (802.11 b/g/n/ac); CPU is 1.4GHz

AMP, our Annual Maintenance Program licensing products will be undergoing some changes in June. Since its inception, AMP has provided an easy and cost effective way to not only license NComputing products, but provide timely support from our technical team. The program has allowed us to keep older devices from the L-series and M-series compatible with current platform releases and bring new products to market for additional virtualization offerings.

The UXP Turbo protocol delivers an enhanced desktop experience with PC-like performance for 3D rendering, browser scrolling, video playback and multimedia-intensive applications.

UXP Turbo works with vCAST providing higher quality video streaming without CPU bottlenecks. It now features advanced H.264 codec, delivers improved compression, reduced bandwidth usage, and lower latency. This makes it ideal for vSpace Server access over WAN or VPN, as well as for applications requiring low network latency, such as CAD systems used for rendering and animating 3D objects.

The only difference between these devices is RAM. RX420 has 2GB of RAM and is sufficient for normal operation. RX440 has 4GB of RAM, and is recommended for use cases that rely heavily on the local Chromium browser with multiple open tabs.

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For virtualization, 2GB of RAM is plenty and is the standard amount in all of the RX-420 devices. In certain circumstances, more RAM can be advantageous, specifically if your use case requires heavy use of the local Chromium browser. An example of this would be keeping many browser tabs open at once, playing multimedia content, or accessing the web version of Microsoft Teams for video calls. For these cases we have the RX-440 devices. These devices are identical to RX-420 except for the inclusion of 4GB of RAM. These devices are available for direct order only.

PMC Endpoint Manager can be downloaded from the NComputing Management Portal. Please refer to this KB article for instructions.