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A company is deciding whether its users should access applications through thin clients or use thick-client devices. Explain one difference between the two approaches and discuss one implication of that difference for the role of the user's device.
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- With thin-client computing, applications are processed mainly by a server, so the user's device needs to carry out less processing and mainly provides access to the applications.
- With thick-client computing, more processing is performed on the user's device, so the device has to provide more of the processing needed to run the applications.
- Therefore, the choice affects how much processing responsibility is placed on the user's device rather than on a server.
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The answer gains credit by linking the difference in processing location to the resulting role of the user's device. It stays focused on comparison and contrast rather than introducing unrelated networking features.
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