Cheap notebooks as terminals?

Matt Alexander plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:18:36 -0700 (PDT)


I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work.  It'd be particularly
cool if you had wireless NICs in those laptops...


On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:

> I am still in the planning stages to do an LTSP for my kids at home.  To save
> space, I was thinking of buying 150-200MHz notebook computers as the
> terminals.  Perhaps thin clients are cheaper than used notebooks but then I
> would have to use monitors, losing a significant portion of the space savings.
>  LCD panels are still to expensive to be an option.
>
> Has anyone tried such a thing?
>
> Alan
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