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[–] 32 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Huh, thinking about it, I've never seen a computer in the 2009 icon form factor. Sure there's the simple rectangle case, but that skinny silver curved case?

Also, its kind of funny the 2026 version is an all-in-one-computer, which is more of Apple's thing. Sure there's probably a dozen options for a Windows all in one, but when I see that icon I think of an iMac.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    You probably already know, but for the crowd:

    Usually thin clients are clients that remotely connect into a central server that runs their VM, and the VM actually handles the compute. Like older mainframe and endpoint setups.

    There's still some minor compute hardware/resources on the thin client itself, but it'll probably be more lightweight than expected. Maybe equivalent to an early model raspi?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    A school i went to around 2010 had something similar

    It was all to connect remotely to a real server that ran windows

    The device on the desktop was just for connecting peripherals, power, ethernet and monitor

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