Know Everything About thin clients
A thin client is a computer system that runs on applications where most of the actual processing is done on a remote server linked over a network. The local machine – the thin client – is displays results in a way that is as close to what you might see when running the program locally. These local machines are also referred to as slim or lean clients.
Thin clients or thin client RDP are not at all new. In modern computing, they're one of the most basic concepts. Conventionally we used to know them more as dumb terminals.
Such systems usually consisted of a teletype or CRT that is connected to the computer in question via a coaxial cable. Except for the ability to print and send a text the terminal had a little capacity of its own.
Depending on their make and model printers could execute certain auxiliary functions such as sending characters to punched tape or performing overprinting.
Applications for thin clients
In theory, maximum applications can be run on a thin client. In practice, getting maximum out of a given app in an RDP thin client setting may need the functionality that isn’t available through the client device.
In the end, the types of applications you are going to use with a thin client will ultimately depend on several factors: what app-publishing functions, the thin client in question, and the network bandwidth are supported in the current protocol, whether hardware acceleration is available for various functions.
Hence, different thin clients support different workloads. The above-stated VNC protocol doesn’t (yet) natively support video streams. On a VNC-connected desktop, you could open a video player, but you’d see at most one frame every second or so, even on a broadband connection. The RDP thin client price is very reasonable.
On the other hand, on the same network connection, you could run a web browser that supports Flash, connect to a remote video server, and enjoy full-screen H.264 video playback. In a web browser, it’s also possible to open a VNC connection because a VNC server can provide a Java-based browser applet that runs at just about the same speed as the binary client.
