Deploying thin clients may not result in cost savings for every organization, but small and midsize businesses looking for a robust, fairly powerful dumb-terminal experience can find it in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Compaq t5510 and t5710 Thin Client systems. Released in October, the t5510 and t5710 thin clients have small footprints, making them unobtrusive on the desktop. The solid-state devices lack hard drives, but they have a Windows look and feel that may appease users reluctant to abandon thick clients.
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