Well, I can't speak for thin clients, but for a small desktop I can't figure out what the selling point is here. I configured one with a dual core Atom processor with Vista Biz, upped the ram to 2GB and added an external DVD drive and the price is $1164. The comparable Mac Mini is $650 and it comes with a Core 2 Duo, bigger hard drive, integrated DVD, wireless, and a vastly superior graphics adapter for almost half the price, and it's smaller. You could buy a retail Vista Ultimate and still be ahead price-wise with a much better system that doesn't draw a whole lot more power.
-- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Dell OptiPlex FX160 I can't remember, but what was the price? I think they priced themselves out of reasonable competition... Here's an MSI wind without harddrive or memory for $140, $210 with 2gigs of ram and 320gb harddrive... and room for an optical drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032 Yes, I know the FX160 has the newer Atom processor, but this isn't much slower. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
