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What are the typical objections to Thin Clients?

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Hi All,
I’m just looking in to creating a list of the most common objections regarding Thin Clients?

What I have so far is - A PC or Fat Client Advantages are:

  • Always provides a better user experience
  • Fewer server requirements.
  • Better multimedia performance.
  • More flexibility.
  • Better peripheral support.
  • Suitable for poor network connections.
  • Easier to repurpose.
  • Doesn’t need specialist or server knowledge to support.
  • Any technical support issues only affect single users, not multiples.

Does anyone know of any others?
Cheers,
Dave

written by dcaddick

6 Responses to “What are the typical objections to Thin Clients?”

  1. Shawn Bass Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 1:27 am

    Dave,

    While it may be indirectly covered by your “Suitable for poor network connections” bullet. I think one of the key advantages of a fat client (particularly when we’re talking about a laptop) is the ability to operate offline. Thin clients require network connectivity which makes them pretty much useless without it.

    Shawn

  2. bfitzhugh Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    I often here, “I lowend PC costs as much as a thin client, and the PC is ‘more flexible’ “

  3. dcaddick Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Thanks Shawn, that is probably a better way of putting it ;-)

  4. bfitzhugh Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

    Opps, sorry about the broken English. My last comment should read:

    “A low end PC costs as much as a thin client, and a PC is ‘more flexible’ “

    Some customers have this thought embedded and struggle to see past it to see the advantages that a thin client may bring.

  5. dcaddick Says:
    April 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Thanks for the comments Brian, the reason I’m gathering this is to try and figure out how it might be possible to create a Thin Client that works off-line…
    Dave

  6. michael Says:
    April 28th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    Hi Dave,
    hope you are well. Thin Clients are great for cheap ( longer term) installations and make support easy. I am so pissed off with my Vista notebook that I would love to format it and run XP.. ( but that would mean wasting all the hours spent on configuring Vista to run as I want) I have a notebook and a thin client.. in my office I use a XPe Thin Client with Citrix for my work stuff and at home I have a notebook thin cleint. I use my Notebook to present to cleints. I think the day will come where we will have a USB type of device that the thinb client boots a full OS when offline….. really out of the office I need a powerpoint viewer and internet access…. for a web browser…

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