| Save The World, Buy A Thin Client |
| Saturday, 12 August 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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According to Barrington, current demands for IT directors to deliver a more energy efficient department could be answered by none other than the good old Thin Client. Advocates of thin clients have spent decades asking why you need a wieldy, expensive PC when many workers only use them for just one or two simple functions. But as intelligent as this argument is it has often had as much success as those worthy people who ask why Henrietta of Hampstead requires a Land Rover Discovery to drive the kids half a mile to school when a nice little Fiat will perform the same function at a fraction of the cost. But just as soaring petrol costs and environmental concerns may finally begin to make fuel efficient cars look more appealing the same could be happening with the thin client. As Barrington explains thin clients can be 4 watt per hour (w/h) devices compared to PCs which can run at up to 250w/h and still idle along at around 8w/h when they are turned off but not unplugged. Read the entire article here.
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