Client as a laptop? Video Cards?

[mike1961]

Two questions:

does anyone use a laptop computer as a client? It seems that it would take a lot less room. I've been looking around and everything seems to be tower cases these days and it's hard to find a slimline flat case (like a VCR or a Tivo). But, would it be better not to use laptop so as to configure the client better. In other words - I'm not sure what are good video cards (but not too expensive) to use in the client (ie: ATI, Win TV....). I think the old Win TV to go does not have the built in mpg encoder whereas the new 150's do but I'm very new at this and I want to put most of the cards in the server (but not all). Also, these days, does it matter which video card I go with if I'm going to be getting two new client computers?

Thanks again,
Mike

[flavius]

I use a three old laptop as client. I can get you the specs, but you can buy that box anymore . It's a P4 2.0. It's kinda slow, so you can tell, it must be the GPU.

The most recent client I built uses the NVidia GeForce4 MX GPU (onboard) which will work just fine. This is not high end.

One of the reasons why I switched from BTV to Sage is lesser demand on the hardware. This is still true with V4, I think. Don't agonize over the client hardware. I'd check out some barebones, and then post the specs (GPU mostly),