Hi All,
Sorry for stealing the thread some, but I've recently become the IT individual on a middle school campus (grades 6-8) and have been lusting over the cost-effectiveness that Microsoft Multipoint Server would seem to provide. Since our school district is Apple-only (I can't imagine why, except that the school campus is less than 2 miles from Apple Corporate Headquarters) I doubt that I would have much luck with having it implemented, but I may prepare a proposal anyways and see where it goes.
My main question is what kind of performance do you seem to get out of Microsoft Multipoint?
For the most part, the students at this school use productivity or browser-based applications, but would this be a good solution for video editing for example?
From what I've seen, my ideal setup would probably include:
- motherboard with the AMD 800 series chipset
- AMD Phenom II x6 CPU, perhaps an overclocked black edition
- 8GB of DDR3 ram @ 1600mhz
- 2 HDDs in RAID 0 (the user accounts would probably be domain, so perhaps only a single smaller drive)
- 3 5000 or 6000 series ATI graphics cards to support 9 monitors
- powered USB 2.0 hubs for each station with 20" widescreen monitors
My feeling is that a setup similar to that would be able to handle video editing on top of more menial tasks and be useful for the years to come, but again my experience with Multipoint is nonexistent so...
