[K12OSN] Review of NorhTec MicroClient Jr. thin client

Thu Jul 5 14:18:58 UTC 2007

Hmm...interesting...I remember a similar discussion in a previous thread
about this.  My buddy, whom I set up with K12LTSP a little while back,
has a Pentium-120 that he finally let me turn into a thin client for his
son.  It was indeed awful trying to run TuxType or TuxMath...until I
dropped a 10/100 card and an ATI Radeon 7500 into it.  Now it's great.

Could that be the issue--the video chipset?

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James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Thanks, Robert. I have a couple here in the shop. 
> They are quite usable as thin clients. Since they are rather slow, they
> won't push the resources of the server too much. 
>
> In prior tests with much faster hardware, apps like tuxmath would bog
> down the server. But a 200 MHz CPU just can't pit bits to pixels fast
> enough to bog things down running tuxmath :)  I only have 2 of these and
> I estimate it would take at around 4 to provide the load running tuxmath
> that a single 700 MHz Pentium thinkpad can pull on the same server.
>
> As a general purpose student client they work very well!
>
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:05 -0700, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
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