thin client or stand alone - which is better?

[francois Barillon]

Le samedi 26 janvier 2008 à 14:42 +0000, Gavin McCullagh a écrit :
> My main problem with thin clients is multimedia apps.  Sound works in one
> direction just now, but VoIP probably doesn't.  Video playback can work,
> but not if we're talking about lots of users at the same time and high
> resolution video.  For video to work well on a large scale, I'd say it's
> necessary that the video app be running on the client (which might be
> through local apps, or it might be an installed desktop).

Could it be possible to use pxe boot as a thin client and run a command
to (re)install a local system ?

François