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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > > Why exactly use laptops for an IT suite? Just seems pointless to me, Because dedicated suites are out of fashion. Even without PFI and BSF which effectivly take such decisions out of the hands of schools. > they're easily broken and stolen. If they were going to be Linux Also the parts are more expensive and the networking is (at best) 28MBit/second shared as compared with 100M/1G dedicated. > machines I'd say they'd be better off with low power Atom machines such > as the new Acer Revo or a custom built Atom machine (or maybe the Viglen > MPC-1 machines or them low power AMD Geode thin clients). They could > then be configured to run as LTSP clients which would take a whole lot > out of the administration and keeping the machines up to date as the > server is all that needs updating (as proven with the Exwick LTSP suite). Which also demonstrates that any opposition is more likely to come from adults than children :) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html