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HP To Launch T820 Series Thin Clients In Nov

By TechTaffy Desk

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HP will be launching the HP t820 Flexible Series Thin Client in November this year.

The HP t820 includes Intel Core i5 or Intel Pentium, and is eight times faster than the HP t610 Flexible Thin Clients, according to the company. The device features fiber-optic networking, Intel vPro technology, BIOS implemented to NIST guidelines, and TPM Chipsets. 

Jeff Groudan (Marketing director, Thin Clients, HP): There is new and growing demand in today’s market for quad-core processing and multimedia graphics on thin clients.

The HP t820 supports three monitors out of the box, with an AMD Radeon HD 7650A MXM graphics card. Optional multi-stream DisplayPort hubs, can expand support to seven high-definition (HD) monitors.

The HP t820 is VMware Horizon View certified and RFX certified for Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard (WES) 7 E operating systems.

You can find a complete list of technical specifications for the HP t820 here.

[Image courtesy: HP]

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