Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs. Thin clients take the ...

What is a thin client? A thin client, or lean client, is a type of computer that relies entirely on its network connection to accomplish tasks. A typical laptop or desktop PC—otherwise known as a ...

A client machine that relies on the server to perform the data processing. Either a dedicated thin client terminal or a regular PC with thin client software is used to send keyboard and mouse input to ...

Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For ...

It’s not environmentally friendly, but most of us run a small home server 24 hours a day. A small server is a useful tool to have that unfortunately wastes a lot of energy. [kekszumquadrat]’s thin ...

I've got a client that has some older machines (P2's, 64-128M of RAM). they currently run NT4 and are a pain in the ass to deal with. The machines are basically just used as Microsoft terminal service ...

History, as doubtless any student of the computer industry will point out, tends to go in cycles. When interactive computing took off in the 1970s and 1980s, the predominant model – indeed the only ...

Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

I could not agree more with Chris Dawson that, given the choice between cobbling together parts from a bunch of lame PCs and buying new thin clients, that buying new thin clients is the proper choice ...

Like an air-traffic controller suddenly noticing a new blip on his screen, IDC Research is now tracking significant growth in thin-client purchases — more than 20 percent annually over the last ...