I'm sorry, did you actually say "not even good ones like a paper weight"? I'm 36 and have never once used or needed a paper weight in my life, but I do find capes are terrific for making grand entrances and exits!

Thin client running against a vm desktop, thats where stuff is going, running a bunch of vm desktops on blades. Let the vm software automatically balance the load. Citrix and vmware are activly working on this. Check out vmwares site for some whitepapers on what you want to do, I personally think its a bit early to move a whole company to it, but its something to play around with.

ttfn