Jul
12
2005Blade Desktops? Nope, I Don’t Get It
12
2005
It seems every couple years or so some company or another decides that “thin clients” are the way of the future. Today, our inevitable future apparently involves “blade desktops“.
The “Blade Desktop” is like the old network PC proposed by Sun, except instead of a bunch of of “thin clients” connecting to a single powerful server, each “thin client” has its own dedicated “blade” computer sitting in the server room. So… it’s kind of like, you take the kind of dumb computer parts and put them in one box, then you take the smarter parts and put them in another box, then you run a really long cable to connect the two parts. This is called progress.
OK… Hm… Are desktop PC’s too expensive? No. Are they too big? No. Are they too hard to maintain remotely? No.
So, this makes everyone’s life more convenient how?