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HP Introduces Transmeta Thin Clients

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-new-machines-on dept.

prostoalex writes "HP will announce the T5500 and T5300 thin clients on Monday at the TechEX show in New York City, which use the 733-MHz and 533-MHz versions of Transmeta's TM5800 CPU. Prices range from $599 to $629."

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  1. Wrong pricing by TrentC · · Score: 5, Informative

    The submitter misread the article; those prices are for the TM5700, which HP already sells.

    It says right at the bottom of the article that the prices for the new units have not been announced.

    Jay (=

  2. Specs and Diagrams here: by watanabe · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/1174 6_ca/11746_ca.PDF

    The specs look like this is aimed at a corporate market? Strange since a whitebox computer would be cheaper. I suppose power consumption, etc. are all important. The T5500 comes with 128mb of RAM, and the 733mhz Crusoe 5800 processor, runs Windows CE and IE 6, and supports Citrix, etc.

    I still think I'd prefer a whitebox with no hard drive running LTSP.

  3. Price is incorrect by Llurien · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article actually says that the 5700 model which was allready sold by HP for some time has a price range of $599 to $629. The 5700 model uses the 1GHz version of the TM5800. The new thing is that models based on the lower speed processors are introduced, but no prices are known about those yet. I may be kicking in open doors here, but they probably will be lower.

  4. Pictures of T5500 and T5300 by ShadeARG · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pictures of the T5500 and T5300. (German text)

  5. Re:Uh by diz · · Score: 3, Informative
    Uh, maybe you didn't notice that the article said that the 1GHz models have already been on the market for a while and they were releasing slower models. One would expect that these models would be cheaper than the TM5700 clients that are 1GHz and *already on the market* for some time.

    With the amount of effort I see people put into making ultra quiet computers, you'd think something like this might actually do well. I'm tired of my own office sounding like a wind tunnel, and I've considered many times moving the white box machines (yes, they're cheap but loud) into a machine room and using something fanless as a remote desktop in my office.

  6. what about the t5700? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Too fast for ya? T5700 with 1Ghz Transmeta

  7. Re:$600 for a thin client? by tashanna · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is Slashdot.Why would anyone look at the HP Website and check prices.

    The 533 MHz = $349
    The 733 MHz = $369