The thin machine could be your laptop where you'd occasionally want to do a heavy operation on a workstation or server on the data you happen to work on on your

The thin machine could be your laptop where you'd occasionally want to do a heavy operation on a workstation or server on the data you happen to work on on your laptop. Sounds like a decent usecase. Of course running it there will work too but will need more setup. So the occasional thing is what really makes this worthwhile. It's a bit of a niche but I see the benefit.