john hilton wrote: >I guess that the advantage of the thin client is the reusing of old hardware, >but is the disadvantage the same thing? (carrying over potentially crumbly >hardware)? Does this diminish teh savings, considering hardware is relatively >cheap these days? > > If you network boot your PC it does not matter if the hard drive dies. The only things to go wrong are the integrated motherboard and RAM. It that happens throw it out.
Hardware *is* cheap but it's still hard to build or buy a tiny box for less than $200. There is a market for thin clients in the business sector at that price point but since it's business they at least double the price. It also does not fit into the Citrix / Microsoft business model of how software is sold. David -- "UFW. Deb does linux."
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