Buying clients to use with terminal services
We use terminal services & from my understanding, users don't need great PCs since all applications are on the server, correct? When we've purchased new computers, we've been getting OptiPlex PCs from Dell for $800+. Is there a reason for doing that? Couldn't we just get a $500 home user-type desktop?
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This is helpful - thanks. I've been in my position for <1 year & had never heard of TS until I came here (no, not a whole lot of experience here). When we bought the last few computers, we bought the OptiPlex because that's what we've been doing & I simply didn't know any better. I'll look at CDW too. Dell was supposedly giving us a nonprofit discount, but I don't see much of a price difference compared to just buying online like anyone else.
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I guess I just haven't been impressed with our account team at Dell - maybe I need to push them a little harder on pricing. We're a nonprofit foundation with 14 people. We have software specialized for nonprofits & are big users of Msft Office - all thru TS. There are a few people who have software on their own system only (Contribute, Quicken, etc...) but I don't know if anyone has more than 1 or 2 packages. We are big fans of TechSoup. We do pretty well with software purchases, but have some limitations. For ex., with Msft, we can only buy once a year so we need to plan pretty well. I think their PCs are pretty old but maybe I need to take a closer look.
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You could also look into thin clients:http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-12454-321959-338927-89307-3221863.html
They usually have no moving parts and never die or need patching/upgrades.