The NIC has enough resources that you can run it as a full X terminal,
rather than booting from a terminal server, and also do things like
local software rendered 3D (which isn't feasible on an app server).
Running apps off the CD drive is inferior to using an app server though.
In addition to the provided app-CD, I use a etherboot-CD that boots LTSP
mostly to provide an identical environment across all the client machines.
I don't have a TCSX, but do have a bunch of P60, P75 and P100 diskless LTSP
with between 16MB and 32MB of memory in each one. They work well enough
until power users start to use lots of windows, fonts, bitmaps, colors, etc.
The performance we observe is still better than a native single processor
Windows computer, but noticably down from the NIC or the P2-300 based clients.
I would make the additional comment that the video chipset plays a crucial
role in X performance on slow computers. Having XAA fully supported reduces
processor load greatly, so it can keep up with all the drawing requests, and
enough video ram to do bitmap caching eliminates a lot of network traffic
as well as the associated server load (and user-visible delay).
From: mslicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Has anyone compared the ThinkNIC vs. the TCSX-1 clients? I'd like to know
> which will work better as an LTSP client device?
>
> I'm looking for small size but both are small enough.
>
> TCSX-1
> Price: $400
> RAM: 16MB
> CPU: 75Mhz
>
> ThinkNIC
> Price: $200
> RAM: 64MB
> CPU: 266Mhz
>
> By this measure, the TCSX-1 doesn't have a chance. Has anyone used them
> both is real life? I need to make a significant purchase VERY soon.
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