Answer: With PC-like expandability, resulting from the forward-looking design, the NutShell ä line of terminals comes equipped with two USB ports for peripherals such as smart card readers and external floppy drives. For additional needs, our terminals come equipped with an IDE port for hardrive hook-up. To ensure the NutShell is capable of exceeding your expectations, you will find a PCI and ISA slot to allow for an internal modem, token ring, cellular modems, atm adapters, wireless LAN cards as well as many other expansion cards on the market. With 16/32 Megs of SDRAM installed, which can be expanded to 512 megs, our NutShell ä line will respond quickly to users demands.

Answer: The NutShellä line has the most connectivity ports of any thin-client regardless of price. The NutShell ä line has the basic serial, VGA, and parallel ports. Additionally, the NutShell ä lines have Audio (speaker, line-in, mic), S-Video, RCA sound out, and 2 USB ports. This unit is ready for your needs today and well into the future.

Answer: Equipped with a Cyrix Media GX 266/233Mhz, to date no Windows-based terminal has a faster processor in the thin-client market. Rest assured the NutShell ä line is fully capable of handling all demands requested of it. To ensure the integrity of the NutShell ä line, Cedar Systems has incorporated the highest quality hardware to compliment its sleek design. Names like Intel and National Semiconductor will be processing needs end-users place on their Cedar Systems' Termians.

Answer: The NutShell ä line has a five year warranty, the longest cost-free warranty in the industry. Even though we don't expect you to need it, all it takes is a phone call for a replacement unit to be on its way to you.

Answer: The NutShell ä line has the best price and most features in the industry. The low price comes with the NutShellä thin-client terminal, mouse, keyboard, and the confidence of purchasing the best Windows-based terminal in the market.

Answer: Not anymore. The NutShell ä line has a metal case with a very practical footprint. All you have to do is put your monitor on top of it and it takes up no more workspace than the monitor itself. This is a great benefit over the vertical units, which take up additional space and require additional wires over other areas of the workspace.

Answer: The NutShellä line represents a new technological approach to thin-clients. Rather than focus on and replicate what already exists in the thin-client industry, we have taken our design a step further by incorporating PC technology. That is why our equipment has so many features and offers our end-users so much expandability. Our equipment is not just built with today's needs in mind, but it was designed to meet tomorrow's needs too. As a result of this use of technology we do not need to charge our customers for yesterday's development costs.

Answer: The NutShellä comes preloaded with Windows CE 2.11Ó , Citrix ICA ClientÓ , Microsoft RDPÓ, and TCOSoft Director 1.1 (lite version)Ó Remote management software. Additionally, our Pro line comes with PowerTerm Unix emulators and full management software.

Answer: Yes, in fact we offer a whole suite of emulations for the NutShellä . This option is an extra cost per unit in the NutShellä but comes standard in the Pro model. It has over 16 emulation (Tn3270,5250,Wyse50/60,VTxxx,Ansi, and more). Some of our competitors usually charge much more for just one emulation.

Answer: Why would you want to pay more for a thin-client terminal that at its best almost has as many features as the NutShellä and more than likely has fewer features and expansion possibilities. Why pay almost twice as much in some cases for a name when the whole purpose and concept of thin-client computing is to lower both your initial cost of ownership and ultimately your total cost of ownership? Why compromise on features and pay more in the process?

Answer: Yes. One of the features of the NutShellä line is you can use either the expansion port for a modem card or the serial port for an external modem and connect using our built-in dial-up networking software. This software allows you to establish TCP/IP connections to a RAS or PPP server. Then you can run your RDP and ICA sessions over a phone line.