Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-05 Thread David Burgess
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:12 PM, P. Scott DeVos wrote: > I would expect that firefox/flash would run firefox on one core and > npviewer.bin on the other, typically. While looking at youtube on a Windows terminal server I have seen high CPU usage for the xorg (I think) and rdesktop processes on the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-05 Thread P. Scott DeVos
I would expect that firefox/flash would run firefox on one core and npviewer.bin on the other, typically. On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 15:52 -0700, john wrote: > Thank you for this reality check! I wasn't even considering whether > firefox/flash could take advantage of the extra cores. So local apps >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/04/2010 06:52 PM, john wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > > >> One more thing that might throw a wrench into your plans: keep in mind >> that almost all Linux desktop apps are single threaded. That means for >> almost everything a typical user do

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-04 Thread john
Hi Jeff, On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > One more thing that might throw a wrench into your plans: keep in mind > that almost all Linux desktop apps are single threaded.  That means for > almost everything a typical user does a single core Atom will be just as > fast as a

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-04 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/04/2010 01:39 PM, john wrote: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > >> By far the cheapest dual core CPU client would be the Intel D510MO. >> Complete systems with 2 GB RAM and a case/PS can be had for about $200. >> After that AMD is probably your best bet for price/perf

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-04 Thread john
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Jeff Siddall wrote: > By far the cheapest dual core CPU client would be the Intel D510MO. > Complete systems with 2 GB RAM and a case/PS can be had for about $200. >  After that AMD is probably your best bet for price/performance.  Their > dual core Athlon II 45 W

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 11/03/2010 12:34 PM, john wrote: > Hi all, > > We're getting ready to move to Ubuntu Lucid LTS primarily for local > apps. However we'll need to replace our current generation of thin > clients (ntavo 6020's). We're in the market for the best performing > TC's we can find ideally for under 300.

[Ltsp-discuss] looking for recommendations: best (inexpensive) Thin Client for local apps

2010-11-03 Thread john
Hi all, We're getting ready to move to Ubuntu Lucid LTS primarily for local apps. However we'll need to replace our current generation of thin clients (ntavo 6020's). We're in the market for the best performing TC's we can find ideally for under 300.00. I've tested the eeebox pc with 1.6 ghz atom