Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Thin clients are only disappointing if you give them the wrong job ...

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 ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, the ubiquitous model of corporate and academic computing was that of many users logging in remotely to a single server to use a sliver of its precious processing time. With the ...

Thin-client hardware has standardized on x86 architecture, but software varies significantly among vendors -- major manufacturers like Dell and HP increasingly rely on third-party operating systems ...

In Pasco County, Fla., thin clients have been a fixture in the user environment for a decade. IT initially bought into the thin-client computing model as it addressed security and management ...

Thin clients have evolved from simple terminals into modern endpoints capable of supporting VDI, DaaS, and SaaS workloads. Advances in remote display protocols, cloud services, and x86 hardware have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. The world of VDI (Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure) has been ...

In its infancy, Sun’s Sun Ray was a network-clobbering, sometimes stuttering example of what thin-client computing on Unix-like systems could be. Now it’s much more stable and much, much thinner. The ...

How thin can you go? New clients continue to be introduced, like HP’s unveiling of the t310 G2 All-in-One Zero Client in January. With client types on the market ranging from traditional thick desktop ...

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualization offerings, Dell said Monday. Instead of running the desktop OS ...