Why rich clients rule and always will

Why rich clients rule and always will by ZDNet's George Ou -- The only cost saver would be the local storage device (the hard drive) which would only shave off $40 off the system and severely cripple the dumb terminal by making it completely reliant on the network and server infrastructure which by the way doesn't come cheap. The slowest modern desktop hard drive on the planet can easily sustain over 300 mbps which is probably better than most Internet data center connections.