[K12OSN] build your own thin client

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Mon Oct 16 12:59:49 UTC 2006


I've got one of these iPaqs and they work great as clients.  I think I paid $30 and that 
was for just 32MB RAM, so $27.50 a piece for 128MB RAM (and a hard drive, but I'd take 
that out as it's unnecessary, just draws more power, noise, etc.) would seem to be a 
good deal.  I had to use the following settings in lts.conf to get mine working:

XSERVER = vesa
X_VIDEORAM = 4096
USE_NBD_SWAP       = Y
SWAPFILE_SIZE      = 48m

But with 128MB RAM, I suspect the last two lines would be unnecessary.

FWIW, for new, I think William, Daniel, & James bought new thin clients from 
www.ntavo.com, that list for $150 but they got them for $100 each because they bought 60 
of them.

Petre


mark at ehle.homelinux.org wrote:
> If you aren't married to brand new, eBay has at any given time 60+ 
> compaq ipaq computers that can be had for under $50 and sometimes 
> package deals of 10 at a time - check out item # 130034615886. 10 for $275.
> 
> These little machines make wonderful thin clients, and they are cheap 
> enough that you can keep several spair ones.
> 
> Just my $0.02 -
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Quoting Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com>:
> 
>> My school may be in the market for thin clients soon. It would sure be
>> nice to get pretty, new ones, but we'd like to stay under $200.
>>
>> I've looked around and it looks like you could put together a
>> motherboard, CPU, memory, case, and video card for about that amount,
>> but I must admit I'm in a little over my head, since I've never built a
>> PC from parts before.
>>
>> Anyone have advice about how to put together an attractive, small client
>> for the least amount of money possible?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Todd
>>
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