On 20/05/17 13:02, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> On 19/05/17 17:57, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 19/05/17 17:40, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
>
>>> Me scratches head. How come the existing thin client machines got
>>> viruses? They should have no direct route themselves to the internet!
>>>
>>
>> Maybe that's why the replacements are not going to.
>>
>>> Android TV boxes are also cheap, and have fast GPUs....
>>>
>>
>> Hardware aint the problem.
>>
>
> When I was involved, it was.
>
> Thin client boxes from the likes of HP are ridiculously expensive for
> what they are. I pulled multiple 100's out of a nationwide office
> deployment, these t5145 VIA Eden 500 MHz things had 512MB of ram and a
> GPU that visibly couldn't move GUI drawn structures fast enough.
> Scrolling was a joke, even on good network bandwidth.
>
> The t5565 replacements built on Intel Atom something had better
> graphics, 1GB of memory. Users complemented the better responsiveness,
> but the cost was eyewatering. £150 / workstation.
>

was paying near that for wyse terminals back in the day..


> But in the end we got fed up, and replaced them all with Windows 7 mini
> PCs. Destroyed the Citrix terminal server farm, sat the PCs all on
> authentication servers and migrated most of the office apps out on to
> the google cloud.
>
> Based on my experience looking at rendering speeds in a web browser, I
> don't think the RPi (graphics/network) is fast enough to do a remote
> desktop service, let alone anything more fancy.
>
> Maybe it doesn't matter for the application, if not full desktop.
>
> ...
>
> BTW I have 40 t5145 thin clients doing nothing, thought it would make a
> nice linux standalone minimal feature machine with potential for
> marketing to hobbyists. This guy had a similar evangelicalism.
>
> http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/
>
> Then someone went and launched the Raspberry Pi.....
>


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