ICT Support Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength.

Evaluating thin clients from a position of strength. Marc Wagner. Chris Dawon’s Education IT blog. ZDNet. Online August 2007. … In many instances, the cost of a thin-client (plus a monitor and keyboard) is only marginally lower than the cost of a mid-range workstation while the cost of a robust mission-critical server may run ten to twenty times the cost of a single mid-range workstation. …considering hardware costs alone, the acquisition costs or a thin-client lab may be quite similar to the costs of a lab full of workstations. …