I built a small PC, but it's powerful enough to use with DRBL, not just thin clients. Here were the parts:
http://www.amazon.com/XION-Desktop-Card-reader-Power-Supply/dp/B003THQS20/ref=sr_1_10?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1288911806&sr=1-10 http://www.amazon.com/AMD-Athlon-II-255-3-1GHz/dp/B0035JKNDM/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1288911909&sr=1-2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148352 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186201 It seems to be pretty darned speedy, doesn't use a lot of power, and the case fan is fairly quiet. Once you add shipping, it's right around $200, and you have to put it together, but buying parts means you can get a lot of computer power fairly cheaply. I mean, throw a hard drive and optical drive in this thing and it's more powerful than the model my district buys and considerably cheaper. I wish someone made a cheap little case for people who didn't intend to put in hard drives and optical drives, but once you get to MicroATX, they leave enough room for a whole computer. Todd On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:35 PM, john <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're getting ready to move to Ubuntu Lucid LTS primarily for local > apps. However we'll need to replace our current generation of thin > clients (ntavo 6020's). We're in the market for the best performing > TC's we can find ideally for under 300.00. > > I've tested the eeebox pc with 1.6 ghz atom processor and 1 ghz ram. > It seems to work well, but we've had complaints from other testers > that it freezes on them. It also doesn't obey our local shutdown > scripts. Also I believe it uses the system ram to drive the video > display > and I'd prefer to have dedicated memory for that. > > In short I'd be interested in finding a compact 2 core TC with 2 gigs > ram with a well supported video card that didn't cannibalize system > ram to run. > I see Asus makes a dual core version of the eeebox (ASUS Eee Box > EB1501-W0167 Intel Atom ) but the price is nearly 500.00. At that > point we sort of lost the whole pricing rational for using thin > clients. > > Any advice folks could share would be appreciated! > > Thanks! > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
