treehugger.com— Sun Microsystems today announced its new Sun Ray desktop computers boasts very low typical power consumption ? approximately four watts, compared to a typical PC which consumes over 80 watts.
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I think it's to make fun of your spelling error, then down-digg you. It's turtles all the way to the bottom here on the intarweb.And by "turtles" I mean "assh**es".
I haven't seen so many people in one place misunderstand thin client computing since the last C Level executive retreat I was at.Some of you people are in need of serious eduction about thin client computing. Especially the doofus who said that they generate more network traffic then a regular PC.Talk about making me laugh!
You can remote any terminal server. This whole thread just shows a complete lack of understanding of thin client computing. Firstly the person who referred to client computing. Any computer on a domain is a client. Yes thin clients have a bigger footprint than a straight forward client connection, but in a situation where a thin client environment is deployed you're usually looking at saving three to four application connections so thin client is more efficient. Arguing that the servers use a hunk of power doesn't cut it either, as in a domain setup you'd be looking at having this kind of server in place anyway - and the thin client model removes the need for things like authentication calls, network shares and in the case of share, completely removes the associated heavy traffic. This article should have been reworded, seems noone here knows anything about terminal services/thin clients/XDMCP etc.
We have alot of thin clients at my company, and they are a pain in the ass. As a kiosk for just surfing the web they are fine, but personally I think that is about all they are good for.
Closed AccountApr 13, 2006
They're really just jumped up KVMs
Closed AccountApr 13, 2006
Given that they're designed to run almost entirely off of the network they're plugged into, I'd assume it's your network that's slow, not the Sunrays.
syberghostApr 13, 2006
I think it's to make fun of your spelling error, then down-digg you. It's turtles all the way to the bottom here on the intarweb.And by "turtles" I mean "assh**es".
buelldozerApr 13, 2006
I haven't seen so many people in one place misunderstand thin client computing since the last C Level executive retreat I was at.Some of you people are in need of serious eduction about thin client computing. Especially the doofus who said that they generate more network traffic then a regular PC.Talk about making me laugh!
spiderlandApr 13, 2006
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bigtomrodneyApr 13, 2006
You can remote any terminal server. This whole thread just shows a complete lack of understanding of thin client computing. Firstly the person who referred to client computing. Any computer on a domain is a client. Yes thin clients have a bigger footprint than a straight forward client connection, but in a situation where a thin client environment is deployed you're usually looking at saving three to four application connections so thin client is more efficient. Arguing that the servers use a hunk of power doesn't cut it either, as in a domain setup you'd be looking at having this kind of server in place anyway - and the thin client model removes the need for things like authentication calls, network shares and in the case of share, completely removes the associated heavy traffic. This article should have been reworded, seems noone here knows anything about terminal services/thin clients/XDMCP etc.
natebmillerApr 13, 2006
We have alot of thin clients at my company, and they are a pain in the ass. As a kiosk for just surfing the web they are fine, but personally I think that is about all they are good for.