good FPU needed on client?

[Erik Sjölund]

I want to build a thin client, i.e. an
linux-box with nfs-mounted filesystem (no hard drive).

I was thinking about a VIA C3 processor with
800 MHz because of its no need of fan. It is
rather good at normal desktop applications,
but for Floating Point calculating-
intensive work it is about a factor 3 less than
an intel processor.

review here:
http://www.dansdata.com/c3.htm

Now to my question:
Is the vlc floating-point-calculation-intensive?

Other questions:
What are the advantages of having the vlc being run
on the client in comparison with it being run
on the server and displayed as x-client on the
client side?
If the client has bad FPU then this
might be better (because the server does the mpeg decoding)?
Are there linux supported graphics card that
can decode mpeg-streams, and in this way off-load
the client?

Thanks & Regards,
Erik Sjölund








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