HP unsheathes its blade PC

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and the pundits said thin client was dead

The new blade PCs can be used, in conjunction with the company's thin clients, to replace the networked desktop PCs that most companies now issue their employees, HP says.

To use the Consolidated Client Infrastructure, a company places an inexpensive HP thin client, or computer terminal, on each desktop, and connects to a remote blade PC via a computer network. The procedure enables a company to consolidate its desktop computers in one location to simplify their administration, centralize data storage and bolster productivity, HP said in a statement.

And the economics say it all. Costs a company $1,400 to install a thin client desktop and the back end blade infrastructure ... and they save $1,200 per year in support costs. That's a payback period of 14 months for the hardware investment simply on support cost savings ... lucky for MS that these things run Windows on Transmeta chips ... but once ya start looking for savings, these things would run OSS stuff just as well!

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