Optiplexes have a reputation for spontaneously letting the magic smoke out of their own power supply capacitors. hard to recommend unless you have a good support deal with dell
On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2012-06-23, Peter <open...@laufenberg.ch> wrote: >>> On 2012-06-22, Michał Markowski <markows...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I can recommend this one: >>>> http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t5135/index.shtml >>>> Other HP thin clients should be ok as well. >>> >>> They don't appear to be cheap enough to counteract the fact that >>> performance/spec is probably best described as "optimized for running >>> as a terminal service client", looks like something a bit newer like >>> an eee box is only a little more expensive (and comes with a hard drive..) >> >> EeePCs and EeeBoxes have an ExpressGate/Splashtop remote BIOS. Not that other >> BIOSes are necessarily cleaner but this one's a stinker for sure. > > I don't know specifically about eeeboxes but not all the eeepcs have this bios. > Maybe Optiplex fx160 then? they're cheap at the moment and also small.
