Mike, You make a good point. The advantage I see, related to our environment, is the replacement of thin clients in our branch offices. Way back when we implemented Citrix, thin clients were sold to management as a replacement for "bulky" desktops in branch offices where physical real estate was at a premium. Add to that the standard "there's no moving parts" and that was enough to adopt them as a standard.
Moving forward, we've had difficulties in leveraging thin clients due to their limitations (mainly, disk space). Adding additional software to the thin clients, that won't run in a Citrix environment, has become quite a PITA. In addition, we're finding that we may need to support more and more peripheral devices. The biggest advantage for me is maintaining a similar footprint while providing the capabilities of a traditional PC, at around the same price we're currently paying. Add the fact that we're primarly a Dell shop (aside from the existing HP thin clients) and it helps move us towards more complete standardization. - Sean On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mike Gill <[email protected]>wrote: > 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/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
