[IAEP] Ncomputing

[forster at ozonline.com.au]

We had a similar thin client system in the computer lab of an education conference recently. At least 2 of the sessions could not run as planned because the workstations did not have the functionality of a normal PC. In my case I needed 32M of video memory.

The same criticism though could be made of any low cost system, there's lots of software you can't run on an OLPC.

Their claim "since Ncomputing uses only 1 watt of energy (compared to 110 watts for a PC), electricity usage is cut by more than 90%" ignores the power in the monitor, maybe 100W.

Similarly, the monitor cost may be similar to the cost of an OLPC. The OLPC and its competitors like the eee may be better value.


> I had a pissing match with their founder in the WSJ about a year
> ago... I didn't get any straight answers from him about costs or
> learning. But Sugar on their Ubuntu thin client sounds doable.
> 
> -walter
> 
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anybody evaluated Ncomputing's claims on cost, power, and the like
> > for school deployments? For example,
> >
> > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/Stephen_Dukker_CEO_Ncomputing/articleshow/3820649.cms
> > http://www.ncomputing.com/republic-of-macedonia.aspx
> >
> > They run Ubuntu (or Windows) over thin clients, so they could run
> > Sugar once the packaging problems are fixed (The journal currently
> > saves precisely nothing). Has anybody talked with them?
> >
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