Thin clients suffer from a basic identity crisis. They look like small PCs, get sold like small PCs, and then get blamed when they refuse to behave like small PCs. When people load them up like a ...

A few years ago, thin clients were all the rage. Leading the charge was Sun Microsystems, driven perhaps by a disdain for Microsoft, but many others were producing a variety of thin-client products on ...

Thin clients used to feel like a dead end for my home lab. They looked like tiny desktops, and I kept expecting them to behave like bargain PCs with a few compromises. That mindset made every ...

Thin clients have evolved from simple terminals into modern endpoints capable of supporting VDI, DaaS, and SaaS workloads. Advances in remote display protocols, cloud services, and x86 hardware have ...

Verizon Wireless is hip deep in a project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems’ thin client terminals. And the carrier is already counting up the savings. With about 5,000 Sun ...

Thin-client hardware has standardized on x86 architecture, but software varies significantly among vendors -- major manufacturers like Dell and HP increasingly rely on third-party operating systems ...

Zero client solutions such as Pano Logic's Pano System 4 trump PCs and thin clients in ease, simplicity, and long-term ROI, if users can work within the limitations Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI ...

HP's Elite t660 offers solid performance, plenty of connectivity, and an array of accessories, blurring the lines between a traditional thin client and small form factor edge PC. Impressive Thin ...

The days when bandwidth and networking issues could hold back thin client devices may be over — thanks to Wi-Fi 7. Wi-Fi 6 promised performance to match a wired network, and now we’re beginning to see ...

Amazon has launched a new thin client solution for users of the company’s cloud-based virtual desktop solution called Amazon WorkSpaces. And when I say “new,” I mean Amazon basically repurposed its ...