Thank you for all the responses.
Update: Dell South Africa have now stated that they will not supply
diskless SX280 units! Well, luckily HP South Africa do ;-)
---- Jim McQuillan wrote ----
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.
I am now considering the HP t5125 Thin Client:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/za/en/sm/WF06a/1780087-1780621-1780621-1780621-1780629-12235604.html
This appears to be a suitably "thin" unit is every respect.
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.
Good point.
---- Timothy Legge wrote ----
> It also depends on number of clients, multimedia etc.
> I would go server to switch Gigabit if you can afford
> it.
This makes sense for the small setup I'm planning for, as 8 port gigabit
switches are a better bet than a switch with mostly 10/100 ports and one
or two gigabit ports (these are usually 24 port units it seems).
cheers
Dale
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