Coupled with these labs, hundreds of faculty and staff machines require maintenance.
Personal computers proliferate the campus.
Each of these machines costs thousands of dollars to purchase and to maintain. Thin clients are scaled-down versions of personal computers. Unlike personal computers, thin client computers run applications on centralized servers as opposed to the internal processor of the personal computer. Because all the applications are on a centralized server, maintenance is easier and cheaper. The system administrator for a thin client system simply needs to update an application on the server once instead of once, for each personal computer.