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Tell me what you think: The HP GT310 Thin Client
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New MessageTell me what you think: The HP GT310 Thin Client (modified 0 times) AudreyLover
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Hey guys, long time no talk!

Listen, have the chance to get some HP GT310 thin clients. They seem really cool, but I don't feel like installing Win2K Server to use terminal services - if a bootable hard drive is put in the PCMCIA slot, will it boot?

Anyone know?

There may be THOUSANDS available for <$75.

Let me know - me@lonnypaul.com

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10-15-2002 16:16:06

New MessageRE:Tell me what you think: The HP GT310 Thin Client (modified 0 times) Glitch
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Link to spec sheet.

http://www.orion.com.pl/hp/pdf/thin/gt210_ds.pdf

This has a 200-MHz Media GX CPU. Pretty weak. IMHO, if the machine can be hacked, it would have to sell in the sub-$50 range to be popular. Something in the $25-35 range would put the machine into people's "don't worry if it doesn't work" price range.

Netier XL-1000's are selling for $35-50 range on eBay. These are known to be very hackable and can be upgraded to K6-x-600 CPU. That's pretty tough competition.

Glitch
Electronics run on smoke, if you let the smoke out they won't work
10-15-2002 17:19:25

New MessageRE:Tell me what you think: The HP GT310 Thin Client (modified 0 times) kNiTe_oWl
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It might be possible with the hardware that it comes with.

Cyrix Media GXm 200 MHz
8 Megs Flash
16-64 Megs DRAM

Currently running WinCE, and with the hardware spec, it is probably better to just leave it as is or run Linux,QNX, or DOS on it. The memory is upgradeable, but most likely the processor is not. Drivers may be a little hard to come by, but not impossible. Other than the PCMCIA slot, there is probably not another way to run a HD in this thing. If it doesn't come with an IDE header, the cost will be high to get something else running in this. Lastly, not sure how hard it will be to get into the BIOS of this thing.

For what it was intended originally, this thing is pretty good, but probably not extremely good for your casual hacker. More serious hackers this will be a different story ;)

kNiTe-oWl
10-15-2002 17:32:22

New MessageRE:Tell me what you think: The HP GT310 Thin Client (modified 0 times) bonesry
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now where are you going to get 1000s of these things??
11-12-2002 11:49:11

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