[THIN] Re: Recommendations for Thin client devices

Always evaluate a range of devices and ensure you test the vendors
deployment software as well.
Check to see whether there is a License cost after you reach a certain
number of devices.

We also use the Wyse v90s and have been happy with them until fairly
recently.
The price of the V90 plus the Rapport License cost is making a managed PC
environment look atractive again.(plus Rapport gets on my t*ts)
Windows Fundamentals has been working well in our environment.

We have been looking at other vendor Embedded XP or Linux devices for
comparisons.
The best of the bunch so far has been the Igel devices which are pretty
good. The partition without the write filter enables users to change
settings without us piddling about disabling the write filter / restarting /
enabling the write filter/ restarting.
The Igel Software is free and works. The Embedded XP images are compressed
and work well when deploying over the slower remote parts of the network.

After all that, i love the speed of the Blazers / S10s ... the only downside
is there is no web browser built in as we use Web Interface extensively.

Regards
M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Vaughn" <ron.vaughn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:46 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Recommendations for Thin client devices


> We use the Wyse v-90's w/xpe they have worked great for us in terminal
> services.  Make sure you get enough ram (min 512, ideally 1gb) and you
> should be good to go.
>
> On 3/27/07, Matt Kosht <matt.kosht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Although I have been using Citrix (1.8 Metaframe to PS 4.0) and MS
> > Terminal services (NT 4.0 TSE  to Win2k3 R2)  for about 7-8 yrs now,
> > I have only used them in conjunction with "real" PC's.  Seeing on the
> > horizon yet another painful desktop OS upgrade to Vista, I see a
> > chance to perhaps get off the hamster wheel.
> > I would like to test a small (initially 2-3 then up to 25 clients)
> > pilot of these devices. My only exposure to these was a lone Wyse
> > 3360SE (Windows CE 3.0 I think) device many years ago. At that time I
> > found it slow and limited (graphics resolution) but usable.  I don't
> > think they would ever replace all the PC's (laptops and GIS editing
> > stations in particular) in my case, but the vast majority of users use
> > MS Office, E-mail (groupwise) and a handful of apps (most already
> > available as published applications on our Citrix farm).
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing real world opinions of likes/dislikes
> > in these devices. Be sure to include:
> > _Make/Model
> > _OS (CE, XPe, Linux, others?) Do you find one of these superior to
another? Why?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > -Matt
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