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Went to a library in Portland and saw their public computer setup
They had about 30 machines all running off one central server. Thin clients, I think. The librarian said it cut their setup time for a new station from an hour to maybe 10 minutes. No local storage at all, just a monitor and keyboard. Makes updates way easier for them. I'm used to fixing individual towers, so this was a different way of thinking. Anyone here manage a thin client setup for a business or school?
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walker.julia7d ago
Wait, they only need ten minutes for a whole new computer?
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patriciagarcia6d ago
Yeah, with a solid system image on a fast drive, ten minutes is totally doable. Seen it save so many small businesses from downtime. You just swap the dead hardware, load the image, and bam, everyone's back online. The trick is keeping that master image updated with all the current software. Saves way more time than fixing each broken machine one by one.
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