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And we all remember those from the 1980s. Those things were so bad that we switched to windows in the first place.

It's amazing, every 5 years another boneheaded IT manager revives the whole thinclient thing.

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?

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.

...where?

What sort of workloads does your company run? Are they MS Windows or *nix thin clients?

Company is so huge it pretty much has to run every workload under the sun

Large enterprise environment so users are all on Windows