Comments on: What are the typical objections to Thin Clients?

By: michael

michael — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:43:17 +0000

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…

By: dcaddick

dcaddick — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:58:08 +0000

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

By: bfitzhugh

bfitzhugh — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:29:12 +0000

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.

By: dcaddick

dcaddick — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:09:49 +0000

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

By: bfitzhugh

bfitzhugh — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:58:58 +0000

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

By: Shawn Bass

Shawn Bass — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:27:35 +0000

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