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NComputing, the share-a-PC outfit, launched what it calls a full-fledged $200 Windows PC for the enterprise Monday.

The L300 multimedia thin client, the latest in a series of models, is a little box that connects to a standard Windows computer and uses that PC as a server so a bunch of users can share it through NComputing's distributed computing software. The box, in turn, is connected to a keyboard, mouse and monitor.

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The Ethernet-based widget shares the excess power of standard PCs just like old terminals shared a slice of the computing power of a mainframe way back when. NComputing says that with the L300 as many as eight clients can share a $700 PC and each one of those clients can simultaneously run a 1080p high-definition video.

There are some things that the L300 can't do such as running games.

The L300 is the first NComputing product to use its new Numo chip, which reduces the cost of computing by combining distributed computing with the company's vSpace virtualization software.

NComputing already claims more than 20 million daily users for its virtual desktops and 600,000 commercial deployments of its thin clients. It figures virtual computers can save 75% in capital costs, 75% in operating costs and 90% in energy consumption compared to PCs.

As a promotion, NComputing gave away 1,000 devices at this week's Interop conference. Volume shipments of the L300 are expected to begin this month.