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== Advantages == *'''Lower server requirements'''. A rich client server does not require as high a level of performance as a thin client server (since the rich clients themselves do much of the application processing). This results in drastically cheaper servers. *'''Working offline'''. Rich clients have advantages in that a constant connection to the central server is often not required. *'''Better multimedia performance'''. Rich clients have advantages in multimedia-heavy applications that would be bandwidth intensive if fully served. For example, rich clients are well suited for [[video gaming]]. *'''More flexibility'''. On some operating systems software products are designed for personal computers that have their own local resources. Running this software in a thin client environment can be difficult. *'''Using existing infrastructure'''. As many people now have very fast local PCs, they already have the infrastructure to run rich clients at no extra cost. *'''Higher server capacity'''. The more work that is carried out by the client, the less the server needs to do, increasing the number of users each server can support. *'''Require more resources but fewer servers'''.
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