Thoughts on buying refurbished Thin Clients?
Pretty much any white-box pc with a NIC and a linux OS for the base (with an RDP client of course) would do the trick. Have you taken a look at outlets like Tigerdirect for business? Throw together a...
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Should have clarified we're AUD. What would be the benefit of buying a used PC and then setting it up to be a thin client over just buying a thin client if the cost is the same, if not cheaper for a...
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So it would be 166 roughly in AUD. And because it doesn't matter what equipment you buy as long as it has a NIC, USB ports for keyboard and mouse and a VGA adapter. Here's my thoughts though as to why...
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Desktops die more often than thin clients and buying a 3 year old PC hoping to then get the same 4-5 year life as you'd expect out of a thin client doesn't make sense to me . I don't want to be...
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I've bought and sold them in the past. Rather than die they became unable to take the citrix clients I needed. So my advice is you go second hand get the ones with the highest internal storage
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I buy used HP t5325 from minnesotacomputers.com for 40 each. Never had an issue. Update to latest frirmware no matter what you buy and you're good to go. I use them for Citrix xendesktop. Work awesome.
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Allister Wade wrote: Don't change in technology often You'd be surprised. "ready for Citrix HDX" really means nothing. Does it support UPDv3 printing? Who knows! If you want cheaper thin clients...
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Allister Wade wrote: (Gigabit LAN etc) Why would a thin client need gigE LAN? Even the 3D stuff doesn't push that all that often.
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Allister Wade wrote: Obviously buying second hand there'll be issues and higher rate of failure, but I'm sure if we say we buy an extra few when purchasing that will give us spares for that and we'll...
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Thanks JohnNot too fussed on 100 or 1000 honestly, more referring to the whole lot of extra features or more upto date specs (more memory, more flash, newer windows embedded etc.) just to future proof...
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Let me say this about that – I used to think buying used /referbished PC’s was a great way to save some $$ but recently I got religion on the subject. Our policy was to keep our PC’s as long as they...
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While thin clients use less power, are easier to manage, etc., they still fall into software lifecycles similar to that of PCs. So make sure that the devices you buy are no more than one hardware...
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Allister Wade wrote: I can think of one situation gigabit would be useful - copying or updating images. My argument is if a Thin Client image is big enough that GigE matters, you don't have a thin...
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kfberns wrote: Thin clients, NAS devices Firewalls etc. etc. are all subject to this failure though high-end machines like servers have capacitors that are rated for longer life. I'd argue ASA's and...
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P.S. I would also recommend buying thin clients with an embedded Windows OS like WES 7. The reason being, they offer the best RDP support for accessing RDS. Embedded Linux operating systems have to...
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Has anyone ever used this: http://www.2x.com/os
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Thanks for the great replies guys. @kfberns - It's a good point on components, especially capacitors. I don't think is as much an issue in thin clients as they produce a lot less heat and have no fans...
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You may want to take a look at Chromebooks. They are above your desired
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In my opinion actual PC's are the way to go. The remote desktop space is currently a fast moving area. New features are being implemented constantly. Being stuck with a client which only supports the...
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