Thin-client desktops

Posted Dec 17, 2015 12:52 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (guest, #50784)
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There have occasional glimmers of other product types; in 2014 we reported on thin-client desktops like VIA's APC line. But these alternative device platforms never seemed to attract much attention, and they were not the small, physical-computing device types most people mean when they use the term IoT.

"Never seemed to attract much attention"? VIA's offering certainly didn't, but now we have people squabbling over the latest Raspberry Pi offering, and there is a long list of single-board computers that are effectively "thin clients", at least in hardware terms (given that people seem to be using them as "normal" clients). I agree that IoT is something else, though.