Hi, I will talk about the server I use in another mail ;-) it's unbelievable that it works with 8 clients :-) In the end the performance are equal to a light PC? I've surf the network and found some thin clients with different CPUs. What kind of advantages have a thin client with a faster CPU than an older PC with an older CPU? With LTSP the only important think is the NIC speed isn't it? And maybe enought RAM... But for the last think, I don't know I work in a lab with P75 with 16MB RAM... instead of the 128MB offered in that thin client store. Thanks for your help, Enrico
One great advantage of modern RAM is that you can change it easily if it gets bogus :-/
/me lost three RAM chips in the last half year on my three PCs at home
16M is not much, it seems to be problematic for several people. I have 16 boxes with 24M each running fine...
There obviously is a speedup between a 486 on a 10MBit net against a 350MHz on 100MBit, and I'm quite sure it's not only the processor.
Shorter (heavily shorter) startup times of clients can be an argument too.
It's of course a question of money, buying new thin clients or reusing the 486. But keep in mind that getting spare parts for 486 can be somewhat difficult!
BTW: Several types of thin clients will never need a CPU fan replace because there is none to become broken!
(After 10 years of usage, about a third of all the CPU fans needed to be changed; they were run down)
Anselm
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