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 ...

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 ...

Thin clients suffer from a basic identity crisis. They look like small PCs, get sold like small PCs, and then get blamed when they refuse to behave like small PCs. When people load them up like a ...

Major hardware vendors like Dell, HP, and Lenovo have commoditized thin-client hardware and under-invested in their proprietary operating systems, opening the market to third-party software platforms.