Cheap notebooks as terminals?

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Author: Matt Alexander
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Subject: Cheap notebooks as terminals?
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 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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