Is it feasible to set up 21 unit hotel with Mac Mini's in each room?

I am building a 21 unit condo hotel in Mexico, and want to have mini's in each room connected to 42" HDTV, the features I want are
1. WiFi using "share internet"
2. Skype installed for calls
3. iChat for communicating with the front desk, restaurant and other rooms
4. Maintaing a large iTunes collection (music, video and pictures) for viewing
5. ability for clients to access their account (bill)
Does this make sense? and are there any consulting firms that would help me set this up?

Hi HotinPlaya,
This is a great plan!
Your WiFi connection should just use a WiFi router or Apple Airport Extreme Base station. Just one might not cover all of your units. The Apple base stations may be more expensive, but they are more easily chained together to create one large WiFi network.
As for the other applications, these are all very doable. The only problem would be that your hotel guests might be able to make too many changes, and you would have to spend too much of your time re-installing or reconfiguring the system or applications. I would therefore suggest that you create an admin account and a then create a separate "user" account for each computer - and make it a "Managed with Parental Control" account. this will prevent the end users (your hotel guests) from making too many changes. If you leave the systems wide-open to changes, you will soon find that you either will be hiring someone to fix all of the computers or having to give it up completely.
An even better (but costlier) method would be to use a Mac OS X Server system to setup the "client" Mac Mini's. Mac OS X Server allows you to configure all of your client systems remotely.
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