Re: Apple "dumb" terminals?

In Astronomy, we have six graduate students with Mac Minis on their
desks. They work well for providing the OS X interface to e-mail and
the web (e.g., reading journal articles), and students who wish to do
heavy data reduction and other more intensive computing simply ssh
into a linux or Mac server and run command line and X11 applications
there. The Minis do slow down if too many applications are run
simultaneously, but in general, people understand their limitations
and enjoy using them.

Cheers,
Bill

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Bill Boyd
System Administrator UCB Astronomy
bboyd_at_astro.berkeley.edu

On Dec 5, 2008, at 11:39 AM, E. Bond Francisco wrote:

> Good morning all,
>
>
>
> I would like to configure a local area network (6 users and a
> server) where the users access all their applications from the
> server, without having to purchase 6 individual Macs. I’m guessing
> I could do that with a combination of a Mac minis and maybe a 20”
> cinema display. I would expect to have Adobe CS4, Final Cut and
> OpenOffice installed on the server, for starters.
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> I’d appreciate hearing people’s experience with the dumb terminal
> concept for Macs.
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> Thanks,
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>
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> Bond
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