The NC model may be fine for the casual user who does word processing and email, but I do a lot of high powered number crunching. Whats in it for me?
If you do really CPU intensive work, you are probably going to buy a workstation anyway. Here’s a suggestion. Instead of putting the workstation on your desktop, where you have to do all the administration, let ACN administer it for you, as a clone of the regular ACN servers. That way, you’ll have the full NC environment on your desktop, via your NC, plus, you can run CPU intensive applications on your own server, with no competition from other users for resources.