How to utilize these machines?

[Joseph Bishay]

Good morning,

I hope you are all doing well today.

We have received some new computers and I wanted your recommendation
on how best to deploy them in our existing Edubuntu LTSP setup.

They are desktop Compaq DC7900 Core 2 Duo 3 Ghz machines with 4 GB ram
and 160 GB drives each.

These machines are more powerful than most we've had before, so I
wasn't sure if using them as straight PXE-boot thin clients was the
right approach.  I've seen mention other "types"of utilization such as
thick client, "chubby" client, etc. but I was unclear on all this.

Any insight is appreciated.

Thank you!
Joseph