[itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinkingstraight... (Follow-uptothinclient conversation)

[Bobby Stewart]

I'd forgotten. I can't upgrade XP Home to Vista anything for domain use.
Have to buy a full license. But $108 gets me a charity license for
Server 2008 Std. No reason I shouldn't use it instead If I went with the
ASUS.

That said, the Optiplex 160 plus the Planar monitor (which dell sells)
looks like the least expensive option for this application. Less than
$900 each system. And it comes with Vista Business which means no extra
cost for the OS.

Merry Christmas to all,
Bobby


-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Thompson, Ken
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:50 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinkingstraight...
(Follow-uptothinclient conversation)

Ian, are you creating your own image or using the one that came with the
thin client? 

MTW just got permission from MS to create our own image. We're still in
the beginning stages of how to set all this up and manage it but I was
interested to see if anyone else in the forum is doing this.

Ken Thompson
IT Manager, Mission to the World


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Ian Beyer
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:41 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinking straight...
(Follow-uptothinclient conversation)

XPe is basically a componentized version of XP Pro. We've been doing
domain integration on XPe on the HP thins from the start. 

Ian Beyer
Network Administrator
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection 13720 Roe Ave Leawood KS
66224 http://www.cor.org
913-544-0288
 

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:37 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinking straight...
(Follow-uptothinclient conversation)

How does XPe do with domain interaction?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Beyer <Ian.Beyer at cor.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:47 AM
To: IT Discussion Forum <discuss at itdiscuss.org>
Subject: Re: [itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinking straight... (Follow-up
tothinclient conversation)

Dell's FX160 "Tiny Desktop" (I call it a thin client) is available with
XPe or XP Pro. It's also based on the Atom.

 

XP Pro for nonprofits is $50 or so. 

 

Ian Beyer

Network Administrator

United Methodist Church of the Resurrection

13720 Roe Ave

Leawood KS 66224

http://www.cor.org

913-544-0288

 

From: discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Stewart
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:48 PM
To: IT Discussion Forum
Subject: [itdiscuss] Tell me I'm not thinking straight... (Follow-up to
thinclient conversation)

 

I've found the following:

 

Planar PT1510MX Touch Screen Monitor --- $339.99 (Tiger Direct)

ASUS Eee Box w/ XP Home and 1.6 Atom(fanless is cool) --- $350 (CompUSA)

Windows XP Pro (AD integration) $??? (help me out here!)

 

-OR-

 

Cybernet 17" Touch Screen $1,109 base ($1,215 w/XP Pro OS & Pentium D
1.8)

 

If XP Pro is less than $300 I've got an all-in-one for less than $1k.
The Cybernet is the best deal I could find on a configured all-in-one.
It has a 17 in. screen and I would prefer a 15 in.

 

This seems cost comparable to thin client and TS backend. Bring on the
heavy hitters.

 

Bobby Stewart

Network Analyst

Brentwood Baptist Church

Brentwood, TN

(615) 324-6149 office

(615) 830-0012 cell

 


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