Thank you for sharing the information - these are all good points. Thank you. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404
On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 11:26 , Henry Schaffer wrote: > Michael's point about testing is excellent! :-) > > Other considerations include comparing prices - the price of desktop > computer has decreased greatly in the past few years, narrowing the > price difference from thin clients. > > Also consider how you might want to use the desktop/local machines. > The VCL is a desktop augmentation setup - so you likely want to use > the local machines for web surfing, e-mail, perhaps word processing > ..., what else. That decision impacts the price of the thin client. > > --henry schaffer > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Michael Jinks <mji...@uchicago.edu > (mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu)> wrote: > > Several years ago, we put thin clients (Sun Ray) in all our public > > computing spaces and computer-equipped classrooms. They work great for > > most things, and they do indeed save lots of expense and hassle. > > > > We're now in the process of going back to PC's, though. There are > > several reasons, but the one that might apply to other sites is remote > > display of graphically-intensive applications. 3D rendering is the > > obvious one, but there are also a few legacy (DOS-era) scientific > > graphing packages that don't play well with a network-connected display, > > and the accumulated latency during real-time graphing appears to the > > user as a drastic slowdown in performance. > > > > So, test all your apps thoroughly before you commit. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:41:11AM -0400, Dmitri Chebotarov wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Is anyone here is using a thin client with VCL? I.e. Dell FX100 or > > > similar? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client). > > > This could work well with VCL, since most of thin boxes support RDP. > > > Interesting to see how a thin client compares to a regular PC in > > > classroom environment. > > > Seems like this would be a better option - less expensive, less admin > > > overhead, more secure, and with all the benefits of VCL... > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > > Dmitri Chebotarov > > > Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging > > > 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 > > > Phone: (703) 993-6175 > > > Fax: (703) 993-3404 > > > > > > > > > -- > > Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu (mailto:mji...@uchicago.edu) :: > > 773-469-9688 > > University of Chicago IT Services > > > > >
