Why You Should Actually Pay For Thin Clients

Monday, 08 January 2007 by Michel Roth

This amusing and interesting article on ZDnet by Christopher Dawson is on the subject of why you should buy actual Thin Clients. Because you can easily create your own Thin Client from used hardware that is usually surplus anyway. This is very tempting, especially since (good) Thin Clients still are quite expensive. Be sure to check out the link to the "$99 Thin Client" as well.

"We all know that you can make thin clients for free out of all those junky computers in your classrooms, closets, server rooms, and wherever else you can stash them. Just a bit of effort and some surplus hard drives later and you're in business, regardless of your server environment (LTSP or Windows Terminal Server). Why spend $500 a piece on dumb terminals, circa 1978?

Well, I would hope that you wouldn't. Perfectly nice dumb terminals can be had for closer to $150 or $200 from HP and other major OEMs and they can be built quite easily for less..."

Read the article here.