[K12OSN] thin clients

[Jim Hays]

I use  the Amptron Book PCs as thin clients booting from the network.  
They make good thin clients - as long as the power supplies hold out. :) 


William Parrott wrote:

>Hi John,
>
>We aren't using it in production yet. We are testing as well. I'm
>currently supporting over 1200 PC's and 36 servers in a Windows 2003
>network. I was looking to the K12LTSP project as a way to run some
>legacy Windows apps (using emulation) on thin-client devices. The goal
>for us is to do away with desktop PC's in labs where a thin-client can
>do the job. To ease the cost of transition from PC to thin-client
>devices we are looking to leverage several white-box PC's we purchased
>over the last 8 years. Most of them are "book-pc's", made by a few
>different manufacturer's but Amptron comes to mind. They are PIII
>Celeron-based with 128MB of RAM, 20Gig HDD, and CD-ROM.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>William
>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Arends
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:48 PM
>>To: k12osn at redhat.com
>>Subject: RE: [K12OSN] thin clients
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>>This is interesting...I was looking forward to using 
>>something like that, but now I may rethink it.
>>
>>What PCs do you guys use? Any random ones you can get your 
>>hands on, or have you standardized on something? I want to 
>>try setting up 10 terminals and a server as a test, but cost 
>>is a huge factor.
>>
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>>>>>wparrott at gcps1.com 04/19/05 12:23 PM >>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>Shawn,
>>
>>Thanks for the tip! :) I knew that there was something too 
>>good to be true about them... 
>>
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com
>>>[mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shawn Powers
>>>Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 12:45 PM
>>>To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>>>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] thin clients
>>>
>>>On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:25 PM, William Parrott wrote:
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>>>>planning to evaluate the Neoware Capio One (under $250 
>>>>        
>>>>
>>w/o monitor)
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>>>Let me save you time -- the video is HORRIBLE on those devices.  It 
>>>works half the time with vesa as the driver, the other half of the 
>>>time it doesn't work at all.  NO acceleration, so even when 
>>>      
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>>working, 
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>>>it's choppy and slow.
>>>
>>>I affectionately call ours "CRAPIOS"  -- which at least makes me 
>>>smile.
>>>  ;o)
>>>
>>>-Shawn
>>>--
>>>Shawn Powers
>>>Technology Director
>>>Inland Lakes Schools
>>>PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174
>>>FAX: 509-356-7024
>>>spowers at inlandlakes.org
>>>http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org
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