Re: [LUG] thin clients: silent, right?

["Mark Evans" <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thin clients for X or for that matter MS' windowing GUI don't have a fan in, 
> am I right?

A custom built box probably wouldn't have a fan on either processor or
power supply.

> So no noise to disturb the office/consulting room?

One of the major sources of noise is a hard disk drive.

Using standard PC components anything over a P133 tends to be rather
pointless, for a text mode terminal a 386 will probably do the
job.

> Commonest GP IT grumble apart from programs falling over is of the noise the 
> PC makes in a consulting room.

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