On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:38:32PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > well, if you've got the processing power, why not? surely 1 box with > > heavy duty hardware is cheaper power-wise than two less powerful > > boxes. And if you're second user is an intermittent, low-power user > > (browsing, email) it could probably work pretty well. > > Probably cheaper yet (and certainly simpler) is one "heavy duty" box and a > cheap (perhaps diskless) box as an X terminal.
I doubt its cheaper than just adding an additional monitor and keyboard to the existing box, but... then you could work in another room which may be way cheaper than any other solution :) A
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