Dale, Certainly the P4 2.8ghz box will work as a thin client, but it is indeed at the top end of thin clients. I've got a whole bunch of 166Mhz P1's, and those are working just fine.
Gigabit network is nice, but 100Mbit is sufficient for almost anybody. Lots of thin client networks out there are still running 10Mbit and doing just fine. As for preparing for the possibility of wanting to turn the client into a regular PC later, I've known lots of people who have thought that same way, spent money so they could possibly do it, and now 5 years later, they're still using them as thin clients. Bottom line: There's better places to spend the money, like more RAM in the server. Hope that helps, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Dale Gallagher wrote: > Hi > > Two questions: > > 1) Is a P4 2.8Ghz diskless thin client with 256MB RAM overkill? > > I thought it would be better to purchase non-Celeron thin clients so > that the machines could be used as regular PCs at a later stage if > necessary. > > 2) Is Fast Ethernet sufficient, or should one use Gigabit? > > I suppose if I run the apps locally, then Gigabit would be a better bet, > in order to load the apps more quickly on startup? Is there a noticeable > performance difference between the two for LTSP? (stupid question? *grin*) > > More info: > > So far, the server will be a Dell PowerEdge SC420, P4 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM > with two 80GB disks in RAID1, and the thin clients are Dell Optiplex > SX280n diskless clients with P4 2.8Ghz (non-Celeron) with 256MB RAM. > > Two thin clients: one a general Web/Internet terminal and the other a > point of sale terminal running nTPV POS. The server will also be used as the > primary workstation for the business. Yes, this is a small setup, but having a > single OS installation (server) to maintain makes much more > sense, as my client is in a very remote location in South Africa and I > will support them over a satellite link. It makes sense for them to be > able to access all their apps from any terminal too. > > Any further info/thoughts on the above would be appreciated, as I'm > about to finally order the hardware > > Thanks > Dale > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening > July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual > core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, > AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
