In computer networking, a thin client is a simple, low-performance computer that has been optimized for remote desktop connections to a server-based computing environment. In some cases, they are also
A public thin-client computer terminal inside a public library
An HP T5700 thin client, with flash memory
TA7 thin client by Gigabyte
A connected Samsung Chromebox as seen from above
A diskless node is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating system from a server.
Thin client
…Rich client: Have ample local processing power, although they are heavily network-dependent Diskless node: It has no local storage (e.g. no hard disk drives) but may have anything else that a full workstation has Centralized computing…
A Sun-2/50 diskless workstation from Sun-2 series
The Carry-I book-size LAN station was an early diskless system based on an Intel 80286 processor and produced by Taiwan's Flytech Technology circa 1991.