Green Hives?

[reggiep]

I'm in the middle of trying to find 28 workstations and monitors for a classroom and our finance officer suggested that we look for a green option. Someone then suggested green hives from very pc!

 

Never heard of them? Me neither!

 

Take a look at the link as it does look interesting...

 

VeryPC - Ecology • Economy • Performance - Business - GreenHive - GreenHive 7 User - GreenHive 7 User Package

[Elky]

I remember these! There were on Dragons Den

[Domino]

yay, the keyboard and mice have to be ps2 and the monitors have to be d-sub.

 

looks like a nightmare waiting to happen - but I'm always fairly pessimistic about anything labeled 'green'

[DMcCoy]

Seems to just be some sort of terminal service for XP. Licensing for XP is certainly very iffy for this area. There are a number of big limitations there too, 10m range, low res etc.

 

I'd run, screaming.

[reggiep]

Yeh, I've got to be honest, I was interested in the concept but not buying them!

 

I'm looking at RM ecoquiets as they are at about 60w.

[dhicks]

Someone then suggested green hives from very pc!

 

It looks like they're simply selling ready-made PCs with two N-Computing cards in. I've got the hardware in for a four-workstation setup for our staffroom, but haven't gotten around to setting it up yet. I plan to skip Windows XP, use Windows Server instead. A nice compact case, motherboard, 4-core processor, 4GB of RAM, N-Computing card and four second-hand screens cost somewhere around £700, £100 more for a copy of Server (plus a bit for device CALs, another £100?), and that's about all you need. Another N-Computing card should bring the total cost to well under £1000.

 

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David Hicks

Edited September 30, 2008 by dhicks
Added bit about CALs.

[localzuk]

I'd simply go down the thin client route myself.

[Mcshammer_dj]

go thin client and plant some tree's to appease the hippies

[dhicks]

I'd simply go down the thin client route myself.

 

If I understand correctly, the N-Computing devices are thin clients (uh, or "desktop virtualisation" devices - difference?) - they seem to work best with Windows Server rather than XP. I'll let people know when I've had more of a look at them, they certainly seem like they should work nicely.

 

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David Hicks