Submission + - how to choose the "right" enterprise deskt
drakpzone writes: My company asked me to identify "the right enterprise desktop" as part of a branch overhaul project that involves a few thousands PCs. OS and applications are already chosen and mandatory (OS being MS Windows XP), and the expected workload is in the "average business pc" range. So, identifying the class of pc to choose from the usual big vendors is pretty straightforward, but I'd really like to justify my choice not only on perceived performance/coolness/you name it: I want to get real measurements/benchmarks results about power efficency, heat and noise produced, and of course the usual cpu/gpu/storage/etc performance metrics, based on our real workload scenarios.
What would you suggest as software tools (FOSS really welcome) and hw sensors/probes that can be a part of a (hopefully cheap) 360degree benchmarking kit?