And while the battle between thin client and
fat client processing has literally been going on since computers were first powerful enough to support remote terminals, we've never seen the entire industry embrace the kind of cloud-connected PC that Intel now thinks it can push.
This is different from the traditional
fat client (desktop PC), which is a computer designed to take on these roles by itself.
"If you think about the traditional PC you think about it as a '
fat client', a computer that has a hard drive, a processor and other hardware inside it.
This was followed by the personal computer (PC) era, where a lot of logic was added to the client (thus the term "
fat client" was coined) and logic still ran server-side.
6.3 Case Study of Comparing Balanced MVC to
Fat Client and Fat Server
NxTop's hypervisor includes a virtual video card that let's virtual machines access all of the hardware, including the video card, natively, so that the VM performs about as fast as a
fat client. (See demonstration video below.)<p>I first saw the new NxTop product at VMWorld two weeks ago.
Prior to the launch of Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook, Google was on the offensive, finding new ways to compete against Outlook by highlighting the differences between the Microsoft
fat client and the server-centric, hosted Gmail.
A piece of client software (so-called Thin Client or
Fat Client) was still needed on the terminal equipment for meaningful operation of the originally planned 'clientless' remote access technology.
Advantages of thin diem diskless workstations over
fat client local disk workstations can include lower production and operational costs, lower power consumption, quieter operation and lowered security risks;
* "Rich client" or "
fat client" applications, though robust and secure, were difficult and expensive to deploy.
"It's a
fat client that behaves like a thin client." A normal-looking desktop--with icons for the latest versions of Word, Outlook, and Excel--pops onto the screen.