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I work at an e-waste recycling company. I had about 120 decommissioned HP thin clients come in last week. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them. W
by theandrewbailey 1y ago
I work at an e-waste recycling company. I had about 120 decommissioned HP thin clients come in last week. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them. We have buyers that might be interested in them. I opened them all up and they all had 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD. While grinding through them, I realized that was more than the laptop I went to college with ~18 years ago. I haven't turned any on, but I would not be surprised if the CPUs in them are faster too. I didn't realize thin clients/dumb terminals had to be so powerful these days.
- protocolture 1y agoI had similar revelations when I worked in recycling. There was a period however where semi-thin and semi-thick clients were being experimented with. Get you a fatter client, that uses thin client provisioning and can be pressed into service as a hot seat RDP/Citrix machine, or used solo for other basic purposes.
- compsciphd 1y agomodern thin clients that have a gemini lake cpu or beyond are great small plex servers. under $100 for something that can hardware decode basically all modern codecs (besides AV1, but that isn't really that prevalent) including HDR formats (and even tonemap dolby vision if that's what you want).