There were drawings for prizes that ranged from training material to thin clients and more.
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The company also has plans to make a line of tablet based thin clients.
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The new models of desktop thin clients are literally thin, about the width and height of a textbook.
Consumerization of IT is true, but only for thin clients ( And yes that includes prima donna MAC user).
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That could quickly multiply the efficiency advantages of thin clients, which have existed for decades without achieving widespread use.
But as companies brace for a possible recession, the real advantage of a new generation of thin clients will be cost savings.
"Either HP sells companies thin clients, or someone else does, " he says.
Except, the smartphone has an advantage over traditional thin clients, it has a 3G or 4G signal which means it has built-in internet access.
Thin clients' cheap purchase price is matched by a lower cost of ownership: Bodeman says HP's new products offer energy savings even without virtualization.
"Over the last 12 months, the virtualization market has really matured, and thin clients are really the foundation for accessing those advantages, " says Bodeman.
Today, however, network computers are making a comeback as "thin clients, " and are currying favor with corporate customers worried about the escalating cost of maintaining large PC pools.
To support this business, HP has for a long time supplied thin clients of various sorts, having acquired a thin-client business years ago along with the purchase of Compaq.
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Linux backer IBM will introduce its first two Linux-based thin clients at this week's show and will host a forum in which users can exchange information about IBM's Network Station series of thin clients.
In addition, the data delivery systems (in the internet cloud) that serve the thin client model would also benefit with a tier of fast flash memory for rapid playout of content to the thin clients.
While the market for regular computers has certainly been impacted by smartphones, tablets and other thin clients that are served by massive data centers through the cloud there is still a market for faster personal computers using flash memory (especially in combination with HDDs).
Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.
If so, the lawyers will be facing the enormous expense of going to trial against a tobacco company on behalf of only six people, a severe test of their solemn obligation to represent their clients through thick and thin.
Another important factor in the latest round of thin vs. thick (lots more storage and processing capability) clients is that the current generation of mobile devices offer light weight attractive packaging, fast access to content (no wait for boot and application changes) and reasonable battery life (although this is an area of much needed development).
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