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To: cfimx who wrote (62596)1/12/2005 1:59:17 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
PCs require that you be your own sysadmin. A lot of people are tiring of that task. In a true NC setup you plug in a Sun Ray and it just works. You don't have to worry about defragging the hard drive, because there isn't one. As an end user you don't have to worry about backing up your files, because that's taken care of by the service provider. End users also don't need to worry about viruses, worms, etc. because that's dealt with by professionals. And end users don't need to worry about whether they've got up-to-date drivers and firmware.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (SM)



To: cfimx who wrote (62596)1/12/2005 2:08:26 PM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
If you were designing a PC from scratch today for a medium-to-large corporation, hard drives would be nothing but nonessential local cache devices that were deliberately secure-erased on a regular basis. You certainly wouldn't require one to boot.

It's obvious.

NC proponents haven't been able to make the rest of the infrastructure reliable and cheap enough yet. That's mostly their own fault.

--QS


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