Are thin clients a meme?

Pretty much everywhere I go that has a secretary or some public servant that doesn't want to do their fucking job and give you the forms has one of those.
They are basically microsoft office and adobe acrobat machines.

If you bother to look further than 3 or 4 years back you will see that computers were a lot more expensive back in the day. For example, 10+ years ago there was no way in hell you could buy a brand new laptop for $200. Even a shitty one.

>I don't see the point of these anymore.

Have you ever worked? I see those all the time at offices, schools and courts.

These are a crappy idea, but of course they get offered to companies and government.

Then companies and government decide they can save all that IT trouble by just having that one remote, easy to administrate server and some SaaS stuff and buy them.

It almost never works out to be a good idea because they'll tend to be slow and incur ongoing costs even if they don't have other issues.

Having full low-end machines that aren't really "optimized" to be a client is just easier, even if you put the document storage on network shares on a central NAS/server or storage cloud or whatever the fuck you do.

Sure, but the average person doesn't give a fuck about the thermals on an HTPC.

You're not using it for production, you're using it to play movies.

At least intel drivers support 4k playback from netflix. Which seems like a pretty essential "feature" when talking about an HTPC in 2018.

These are the places that likely systematically got called by marketing teams.

So what? They still sell well and they serve their intended function.

They're not meant to be workstation replacements.

tru

>spending $150 - $400 on a thin client
>not just using a $40 raspberry pi

Painfully stupid.