These developments seem to point to a device that could be broadly called a “cloud client.” (Related: What makes a Cloud Computer.)

这些开发直指“云-端(cloud client)”类型的设备(相关阅读：什么是云计算机)。

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This of course is important in software that is stored on the cloud and not usually installed on client devices.

这对于在云中存储而不经常安装在客户端设备上的软件当然是重要的。

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The best operating environment for a thin client designed around cloud computing has the following characteristics.

围绕云计算的瘦客户机的最佳操作环境具有以下特征。

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We didn't anticipate, at that time, what's happening now, which is, you're seeing value get stripped out of the client and into the server, which makes it even more important to be in the cloud, so to speak.

我们那个时候没有预计到现在的情况，也就是说，现在,客户端的价值向服务器转移，所以拥有云技术,就更加重要了。

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Project Ophelia will be available in the first half of 2013 from Dell Cloud Client Computing.

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Cloud Ready Client makes use of instrumentation that Intel has embedded in its new Sandy Bridge-generation processors (which explains why Lenovo introduced the capability at IDF).

FORBES: Endpoints Ready For The Cloud

For example, if the cloud detects that the client has high-end graphics, it can let the client do some rendering, transmitting abbreviated math that describes the function to be rendered, rather than forcing the server end to do the work centrally and ship lots of pixel values down the line.

FORBES: Endpoints Ready For The Cloud