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Re: [LUG] thin clients: silent, right?

Axel circa £200 and at 10 Mbs we ran 6 screens simultaneously on same video clip from Encarta (it was the cricket clip)

bill noyce wrote:
You will find that Full Screen Video at much over 480x320@xxxxx
will max out 100mbps - as you are sending the raw video across the
LAN and not the compressed divx/mpeg4/avi etc. A decent quality DivX
only needs 2mbps!

Those Axel units cost I think £350 pounds -> spend that on a
decent x86 system. I've got 2 Mini-ITX systems, which are used
as dump wireless mesh nodes and are fantastic. There are loads 
of cool cases out there. Mini-ITX is a new standard, backed by 
a division of VIA. Low Power, with TV-Out, Audio and much much 
more.

I'm just trying to help.

Bill.

On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 11:46 am, Bill Wilson wrote:
from bill@xxxxxxxx
Not quite true you can run video animate even sound on thin client.
Often this is quicker as the main crunch work runs on a server. At 100
Mbs just delivering video at 16 bit colour is no problem. At Dulverton
Middle School we had 6 users on a PII 400 server running the same video
clip from Encyclopedia with no perceptable degradation. Needs a properly
designed network though.

dbatho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Rick

But Axel is not the solution to all silence issues.  There is always a
need for a PC, you can't animate under thin Client.  So a Quiet PC is a
solution for a home user and a AXEL solutions a brilliant idea for thin
client ( except servers. - still noisy..)

Just a thought why not use Quiet PC components within your Server.(ideas?)

David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Timmis" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] thin clients: silent, right?

We use Axel as you know, these are 290 x 290 mm Square 30 mm Deep, will
accept Monitor or LCD on Top. We Use LCD as better use of space and less
heat output, Also better on the eye.

Axel's are completely silent and very low power consumption. Completely
silent.

Rick

Adrian Midgley wrote:
Thin clients for X or for that matter MS' windowing GUI don't have a fan
in,

am I right?

So no noise to disturb the office/consulting room?

Commonest GP IT grumble apart from programs falling over is of the noise
the

PC makes in a consulting room.
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