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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by arenaninja on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:56AM (#17530567)
Maybe. Our company is doing a large refresh, but we no longer get physical PCs, it's all thin clients to a virtualized environment

I'm unsure whether those units are counted as part of the PC market

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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by candiodari on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:37AM (#17530715)
And we all remember those from the 1980s. Those things were so bad that we switched to windows in the first place.
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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by stefan_ on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:09PM (#17530866)
It's amazing, every 5 years another boneheaded IT manager revives the whole thinclient thing.
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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by Lio on Sunday July 15, 2018 @04:13AM (#17534333)
The company I currently contract with does almost everything in Google apps or other web based services.

That allows me to use Linux (by corporate policy again) for day to day development.

Does web based enterprise apps count as thin client?

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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by 21 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:45PM (#17531035)
What exactly do you mean by a thin client?

With $300 you can get a retina display laptop with Celeron quad-core and 6 GB RAM.

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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by akhilcacharya on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:46PM (#17531380)
...where?
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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by throwbacktictac on Saturday July 14, 2018 @11:09AM (#17530618)
What sort of workloads does your company run? Are they MS Windows or *nix thin clients?
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Re:PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years by arenaninja on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:22PM (#17530929)
Company is so huge it pretty much has to run every workload under the sun

Large enterprise environment so users are all on Windows

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