[Ltsp-discuss] RE - Good (cheap) fat client to be purchased in US (Simon Baev)

[Steve Marfisi]

Simon, we have multiple clients (schools) that do well with older Dell (OptiPlex) and HP desktops, as well as the occasional Lenovo (M4x. M5x). The key here, we think, to stick with the corporate line models. We've seen these can run for years after their 3 - 5 years of corporate usage / return from lease.

Server end? We only use virtualized Ubuntu servers, and hand them 8 GB of RAM. This can easily handle 30 simultaneous clients, and in some cases, we have 2 labs of 60 running these. We have very, very few issues with these.

Steve Marfisi
Fossie Consulting

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Hello All,

I am planing to rebuild our existing *thin-client* LTSP setup based off of the Lubuntu 14.04 and replace all thin terminals by *fat clients*. Couple weeks ago I read here that there exist cheap desktops (around $150) that are good candidates for fat clients in an LTSP-PNP environment. I have a budget of approx $3.5k for 20+ fat terminals

Are there any "must seen" models/vendors/... that happened to work well as fat clients?

Also, I am currently running LTSP server as a VM in ESXi and it works well (no performance issues). Would it make sense to move it to a real hardware (HP ML350 Gen5 with 32GB of RAM)?

Thank you.

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Simon
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