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10 year old Windows 7 PCs full of malware? Not so much "thin" as "plague-ridden and emaciated"...
by regularfry 3y ago
10 year old Windows 7 PCs full of malware? Not so much "thin" as "plague-ridden and emaciated"...
- pjmlp 3y agoLenovo ThinkCentre, HP Thin, Android tablets,...
- monocasa 3y agoThinkCentres and Android tablets aren't really thin clients. They can run thin client software, but so can pretty much all thick clients.
- pjmlp 3y agoThey are given that they don't work without the browser based software, or Web widgets, that those business rely on.
- monocasa 3y ago...they absolutely work without browser based software. Unless your definition of 'thin client's is 'anything with a browser regardless of whatever other software it runs'. Or unless you're counting stuff like electron as 'thin clients'. There's ThinkCentre M, their small thin client segment, but that's a tiny part of the whole ThinkCentre line, which includes normal desktops and workstations.
- pjmlp 3y agoMy definition of thin client is how the computer gets configured by the contracting services company, locked dow to use the SaaS product, to be used by muggles on the floor. Yes, it isn't something booting over tftp, with either green or Amber colors, or a X Windows Server terminal like the IBM ones. It doesn't matter, they are configured and used just the same, and their resources are relatively limited compared to a random desktop.
- monocasa 3y ago> My definition of thin client is how the computer gets configured by the contracting services company, locked dow to use the SaaS product, to be used by muggles on the floor. So you invented your own definition.