A “thin client” is basically a computer that doesn’t need a lot of memory, storage, or processing power because it’s designed to let you access software that’s actually running on a server, often due ...

Oklahoma Heart Hospital practices a different kind of thin-client computing. Clinical staff work at what looks like a typical Windows thin terminal from Austin-based ClearCube Inc. But instead of ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today debuted the Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client, a compact computer that workers can use to access cloud-based virtual desktops. A virtual desktop is a workstation hosted in a ...

Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For ...

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Have you ever wished you could hook up your PC in one room, and then use it in another? You can definitely do this if you own a laptop, but here's a better solution for desktop owners: the Jack PC.

The Microbox-5824-ACP has a 300-MHz Geode microprocessor and comes standard with four serial ports. It has a screw-in power supply, no fan or other moving parts, and ...

HP is introducing several new thin client PCs this week, including the HP mt44 Mobile Thin Client, which is basically a laptop AMD Ryzen 3 Pro chip and up to 128GB of storage and the new HP t430 Thin ...

“Raspberry Pi boards are hard to get, probably also next year,” says Andreas Spiess, single-board enthusiast and YouTuber, in his distinctive Swiss accent. He’s not wrong. Spiess says he and his ...

Arista has partnered with ACP to create the enabled thin-client HMI Express, which includes both screenless, brick–sized, mountable clients and industrial-panel thin-client computers with 6.4-, 8.4-, ...

This week, I’m taking time off from enterprise technology to hang out at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. A number of interesting announcements and events occurred at the show but one ...

We are debating in our group on how best to setup a batch of 800 users. Should we go with a thin or thick client solution, PC's will be provided. We already have Citrix Farms, and licenses, setup for ...