Posts tagged ‘ThinClient’
Intel Atom/NVIDIA ION and Citrix XenDesktop – a match made in heaven for thin clients?
Today I received my brand new NVIDIA ION mainbord from Point of View which I bought to update my personal HTPC. But it came to my mind why no one is using this thing as thin client?
In my following article I assume that the customer is going to use Citrix XenDesktop for delivering desktops and applications to his employees. That means the thin clients are going to connect to Windows flavored desktops which are published through XenDesktop.
You can get a full featured NVIDIA ION-based PC for about 257€. Full featured means: Single- or Dual Core 1,6 Ghz Atom CPU, 2Gigs of RAM, 320GB HDD, Geforce 9400m GPU, Gigabit ethernet and even a DVD writer. Oh and yes, you can also use multiple monitors as you have HDMI, DVI and VGA video output.
The power consumption is also pretty low compared to a normal desktop PC, a DELL Optiplex 740n needs about 60 to 90 watts. The ION only needs about 20 watts in idle state and between 25 and 30 watts under full load. More…