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I have neither of these, but my feeling is that you're over-thinking it.
Computers are cheap enough that even spending a small amount of money on a
'generically decent' machine should yield something that will work well as a
dedicated kiosk.
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Hmm, I think this used to be the case but actually several things are
muddying the waters
- "Generically decent" business PCs tend to come these days with fast
processors but rather low spec
graphics and not all of them have expansion slots
- If you want decent graphics you tend to have to buy a "gaming
system" which from the likes of Dell can push the price up a lot
- The advent of dual processor systems has also meant that those
decent PCs tend to come with a dual processor chip with a fairly low
clock speed. Great for running several applications at once -
probably not really the best way of running Flash
- If you're in the kiosk game there's a lot of pressure to use small
form factor PCs. These tend to be difficult to expand and don't have
good graphics either.
If you're going to use one of these it would be nice to know exactly
how much you're sacrificing.
For what its worth, these days I tend to go for a HP Athlon based
Tower model with lots of expansion ports and then put a mid range
nVidia graphics
card in it. Seems to go pretty well but I haven't done a lot of comparisions.
Cheers
Joe
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