Posts by ghettomaster

Yahoo! She said yes. Verizon confirms $4.8bn acquisition

Re: Confused, I am...

The dinosaur/ The background is clearly an enormous Barney.

Gone

Re: iPads and Chromebooks

If you're referring to thin clients such as those offered by HP, the big difference is manageability and they are fit-for-purpose. With those devices you can easily:

1. Configure them so they forget any changes made to the local machine when rebooted. As the hard drive forgets everything during the session you don't need to worry about config changes, software accidentally installed etc.

2. Lock them down so all they can do is run the thin client software.

They also typically run a cut-down version of MS Windows also designed for this purpose and so require little to no maintenance such as Windows Updates etc.

'I'll dance on their graves at 1 MILLION operations per second'

Perhaps amanfrommars will come back and El Reg can decipher him for us,,,