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Given the level of compute power in a thin client now a days, are they much different from a NUC? What my work (financial services) calls a thin client is real
by Tsiklon 4y ago
Given the level of compute power in a thin client now a days, are they much different from a NUC?
What my work (financial services) calls a thin client is really just a super small form factor PC.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoAh, perhaps I'm out of date then; when I say thin client I'm still thinking of the old Wyse box in my junk box with a Celeron, but that thing is ancient so maybe technology has advanced enough to blur the lines?
- fragmede 4y agoIf your alternative is an unavailable raspberry pi, a Wyse with a Celeron for $30 is comparable.
- doubled112 4y agoNot only comparable right now, but a great deal in comparison.
- eropple 4y agoThere exists a small army of SBCs not named "Raspberry Pi" worth considering over them for many use cases.
- metadat 4y agoThe off-brand options usually have serious compatibility issues compared to x86.
- eropple 4y agoThis does not match my experience unless you buy them day-and-date of release from a manufacturer who's slow to upstream system definitions. In my house I've got Rock64s, Orange Pi 3 LTSes, and just got an Orange Pi 5 (which stretches the definition of "SBC" in a lot of ways), along with a couple RPi3's and RPi4's. All have excellent Armbian support and, once you have Armbian installed, it's a bog-standard system. They're also smaller, use less power, and tend to be less noisy. You trade off PCIe for most of them, granted, but more and more stuff is just "and I need a USB host over here" and for that they're excellent.
- gymbeaux 4y agoI wouldn’t go all the way down to “thin-client” like the Wyse stuff. NUCs and SFF/micro PCs are the next step up and usually have i3/i5/i7 CPUs… but depending on your needs, a thin-client isn’t out of the question.