Sometimes you need another computer, but it just seems too expensive. By looking at an open-box item — meaning that it was typically considered excess inventory and always means that it's been ...

Thin clients are the kind of hardware that should be a home labber’s open secret, but somehow still feels like insider baseball. They are cheap, quiet, and usually built to last years in the office ...

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 ...

Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup. In two previous articles I talked about ...

Why it matters: Before the advent of personal computers, dumb, low-power terminals were utilized to access powerful mainframe machines. Cloud computing platforms have revived the concept of thin ...

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 ...

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 ...

When connecting to a remote virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) desktop, there are many different vendors and devices to choose from (you can use anything from a cell phone to a GPU-equipped ...

Desktop virtualisation is not a new concept, but IGEL, which recently moved out of the hardware business, is now partnering with major PC providers to offer thin-client access to Windows. HP, Lenovo ...

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 ...