Recommendation for hardware upgrade: thin clients? Or...?

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Published on 2010-03-21T14:52:48Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 15:01 UTC
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I work for an animal shelter in Upstate New York. We have about 50 machines running XP Pro. They're connected to a Windows network with a domain.

About half of these computers are used for nothing more than using two web-based apps -- one to keep track of our animals, the other to process credit cards. Having a full-blown desktop PC seems like overkill for this purpose.

The PCs are three-to-five years old, and I'd like to come up with a plan to upgrade the hardware.

Our donations are down (not surprising, given the economy), so cost is a big factor. Can people recommend some options? Some sort of thin client, maybe?

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