[GLLUG] Laptops for lounge?

[Richard Houser]

The price does seem high, though.  Some of the netbooks were going for
something like $150ish Friday.  The last time I saw old notebooks for
sale (high P2 at the time, but P4s were semi-new), they were something
like $60 bucks with a license for XP and an old copy of MS Office.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Charles Ulrich <charles at bityard.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 05:29 -0800, David Singer wrote:
>> that seems high to me. I wonder if you couldn't do better used on
>> ebay. at least something in the p4 range. last thing you want people
>> to think is linux is slow and a modern linux install on a p3 is slow
>
> The traditional GLLUG Way has been to run a terminal server on some
> reasonably powerful hardware and connect users to it through thin
> clients. The only things you really need on the client side is the
> ability to netboot and run an X session. Older hardware is perfect for
> this. It's a great way to deploy a dozen (or more) modern Linux desktops
> on the cheap.
>
> Charles
>
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