HP Thin Client >AmiKit

[Daytona400]

Hello!

I've been messing around with my HP t5700-series Thin Client that I bought for my MagicJack and managed to get AmiKit running on it. It's a nifty, small setup. You can get these Thin Clients off Ebay for around $100-$200 (its like this one, but I believe mine is the T5710)

http://cgi.ebay.com/HP-T5700-Thin-Client-PlugNPlay-MagicJack-1Ghz-512-512_W0QQitemZ160342991688QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item25552fe348&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65:12|66:2|39:1|72:1234|240:1318|301:1|293:1|294:50

The 512/512 is RAM and Hard drive size.

I was concerned that AmiKit wouldnt run on my Thin Client b/c it has a Transmeta CPU, but it runs great!   (and very low power consumption; 12 watts I think?)

The Thin Clients also come with a nifty compact hard drive module, that I think work on my my A1200 (although since my board died last week, I haven't been able to confirm) I checked the spacing next to my Individion AGA last night, and its close, but it should be ok. They come in 256megs and 512megs and look like this:

http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/alan-fm_2057_57610759

Like the A1200, I had to buy an adapter to make the on-board IDE 44pin conform to standard IDE size so I could hook up a CD Rom/HD. It's really important to make sure you get the model with USB2.0 so it supports all the latest attachments.

All in all I am into it for about $150, but you may already have the IDE adapters/USB Mouse/USB Keyboard laying around from your other projects.

Another cool thing is that HP offers a downloadable version of XPe. It comes with an installer that installs (from your PC) to a Thumb drive, and then from the Thumb Drive to the Thin Client. But that version of XPe is somewhat locked down and a little tricky to use. (You have to specify if you want to save changes to the Flash Drive when you reboot or loose all your configuration changes)

If anyone is interested I can post pictures, video, whatever. I haven't tried copying AmiKit to the hard drive yet, but I imagine that would work too. Until I get another A1200 MB, looks like this will be my Amiga for a while.

[Fester]

Have you tried a few games on this? How's the sound?

I ask because I installed AF 2009 on 1ghz 1gig ram XP machine and I couldn't get sound to work properly. It would start distorting after about 5 seconds, yet it works fine on my more powerful pc.

[Daytona400]

Oops! My apologies. I am running *Amiga Forever*, not AmiKit!

Honestly, I didn't check out the sound. I will look at it when I get home from work!  AF has a Unix based CD boot option, that's what I was using. Running XPe is very slow on my box, and I had trouble getting the sound to work too.

I had the MagicJack plugged in so I didn't bother hooking speakers. The system did run slower than my Intel EE CPU, but I expected that.

I was also thinking about buying another, quicker Thin Client. These things are very handy for single use systems. Like a Ventrilo server for online video games, FTP/web server, file repository, etc.