Product Info

It's really pretty simple. Our product is a multi-headed product which is "green" and someone in marketing came up with the idea of "Fiddlehead" because the fiddlehead fern is multi-headed and is green. Pretty neat huh?

Fiddlehead is a combination of hardware and software that allows up to four people to share the processing power of one computer via extra keyboards, mice and monitors connected to the one PC.

Fiddlehead uses the excess processing power of the PC via our special combination of software and hardware to create "virtual machines".

We currently have a two headed system that allows two people to share a single PC and a four headed system that allows up to four people to share a PC.

Requirements for 4 Workstations - F4

• 1 ATX MidTower PC (to use a mini-tower or MicroATX Form Factor PC, ensure that the card slots shown below are available)
• Intel Core 2 Quad Processor or greater
• 4 GB RAM
• LGA 775 Motherboard
• 1 PCIe-x1 slot
• 1 PCIe-x16 slot*
• 1 PCI slot
• 1 SATA DVD player
• 2 Free USB ports
• 4 LCD or CRT Monitors
• 4 USB Keyboards
• 4 USB Mice
• 4 Optional audio headsets, 3mm plug

Please contact us by calling 800-842-2820 to discuss our various purchasing or leasing options or use our online form.

Some of the other technologies require you to install on a server and/or use the "fast user switching" built into Windows which can increase cost or perhaps lead to licensing issues. We on the other hand create four unique virtual machines which are licensed just as if they were separate boxes and thus there are no licensing issues. We also don't use "fast user switching" which can cause performance problems.

You can use our online form or call us at 800-842-2820 to discuss various purchase and lease options.

For access to a USB device we supply our Fiddlehead cube which allows any of the users to connect to their individual device. The cube also provides connections for headphones and microphones for the individual users.

We provide access to CDs via Fiddlehead’s virtual CD-ROM library. This eliminates the need to load CDs each time a teacher or student wants to use a specific program in the classroom. Instead, install a whole collection of CDs just one time to create a powerful virtual library available at every workstation.

Because of fewer PCs needed we greatly reduce recycling and and energy costs up to 70%. We also reduce infrastructure requirements.

• Teacher Control™ replaces the need for SynchronEyes
• Lock Workstation replaces the need for Deep Freeze
• Cloning eliminates the need for Ghost
• Virtual CD™ eliminates the need for IsoBuster
• Search to Teach™ has approx. 60 educational applications available across many subjects

Yes – we have also run Windows 7 beta successfully

Lock workstation is a feature you can enable/disable on each workstation from the administration menu. This will restore your image on an individual workstation to its original settings when the VM on that particular station is restarted.  It is not meant to be used as a replacement for anti-virus software.