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are the computers at your school/college/university/work any good?

asim1999
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My school has OptiPlex 760 desktop form factor computers with Core 2 Duo E7500's, 4GB of RAM, 160-250GB HDDs (most are WD), and Radeon HD 3450 512MB graphics cards, running Windows 7 Enterprise. The '09 iMacs have Core 2 Duo E8500's, 4GB of RAM, 160GB HDDs (most are WD), and GeForce 9600GT's (I think, been 6 months since I've looked). They're running OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 Enterprise in Boot Camp.

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Mac Mini (Late 2020)

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I manage our labs PC's and recently upgraded them to Dell Precision workstations. All running 24/7 with at least a quad core xeons and 16gb ram. Graphics cards are mostly quadros depending on the role of the pc, but I do have a single one with a GTX 670 for directX acceleration

 

Our university in general is switching to "bring your own device" policy for the students, so they're removing the computers around the campus

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In a word, no.

i3s, 2GBs of RAM, 320GB HDDs.

But that's nothing compared to the ones in my high school in America...

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They are okay for what we are doing.

 

Intel i3 3240

4GB Ram

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Meh, for what we do its OK,

 

  • Core 2 Quad 
  • 4GB DDR2 RAM
  • 500GB HDD 
  • ATI Radeon 4670
  • Windows 7 Professional

We only do

 

  • Word, Excel, Access
  • Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
  • HTML
  • Scratch

The joys of being in a year 10 IT class :(

 

Luckily I'm learning Java outside of school

Main PC: CPU: i7-4770k RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Blu SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB HDD: 1TB WD Blue GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 770 2GB PSU: Corsair CX600M Case: Bitfenix Shinobi OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit

 

Laptop: ASUS N56VJ

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Depended on the department. General labs were base i5 with 4GB ram. CAD were i7 with 8GB.

Work from home, so, work computer is either a Macbook Pro or Sig computer.

Your lucky! My college for the cad suite we have to struggle with no gpus, i3's and 4gb RAM... sigh while gaming gets i7's and gtx 770's...

Current Build : 

 
CASE: Fractal Design R4 w/Window CPU: Intel 4930K,  RAM: 16GB Ripjaws Z 2133Mhz  Cooling: H100i  MotherBoard: Asus P9x79 Pro , PSU: CS750M   Storage: 2x Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb , 1Tb Seagate Barracuda, 500GB WD Black,  Graphics: Gigabyte GTX 780 Windforce 3GB,  Monitors: AOC G2460PG ( G sync monitor), Edge10 24" 1080p , 24" 1680*1020p monitor ( LCD)  Microphone: Blue Yeti  Keyboard: Cougar 700k  Phone: Samsung Note 3  Headphones: Sennheiser HD598

Laptop:

 CPU: 
4710MQ  Ram: 8GB 1600MHz Storage:120Gb 840 Evo + 1Tb 5400Rpm HDD  Graphics: GTX 850M 2GB   Screen: 1080p IPS  
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Kinda, my school computer has that every student gets has an i7 4700MQ, 730M and 8GB of RAM.

They be some sweet laptops, question is though do they have SSD'S?

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Laptop:

 CPU: 
4710MQ  Ram: 8GB 1600MHz Storage:120Gb 840 Evo + 1Tb 5400Rpm HDD  Graphics: GTX 850M 2GB   Screen: 1080p IPS  
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They be some sweet laptops, question is though do they have SSD'S?

Unfortunately not, which makes them kinda slow. I checked out the specs and it said that this model should come with 250GB SSD's, well they come with 500GB HDDs.

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All Mac Pros, Macbooks and Macbook Pros. they are pretty good for text editing and they are quite fast.

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Unfortunately not, which makes them kinda slow. I checked out the specs and it said that this model should come with 250GB SSD's, well they come with 500GB HDDs.

aha wow, they must have removed them cause they probably thought that people would wreak them after a year of reading and writing to them.

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CASE: Fractal Design R4 w/Window CPU: Intel 4930K,  RAM: 16GB Ripjaws Z 2133Mhz  Cooling: H100i  MotherBoard: Asus P9x79 Pro , PSU: CS750M   Storage: 2x Samsung 840 Pro 256Gb , 1Tb Seagate Barracuda, 500GB WD Black,  Graphics: Gigabyte GTX 780 Windforce 3GB,  Monitors: AOC G2460PG ( G sync monitor), Edge10 24" 1080p , 24" 1680*1020p monitor ( LCD)  Microphone: Blue Yeti  Keyboard: Cougar 700k  Phone: Samsung Note 3  Headphones: Sennheiser HD598

Laptop:

 CPU: 
4710MQ  Ram: 8GB 1600MHz Storage:120Gb 840 Evo + 1Tb 5400Rpm HDD  Graphics: GTX 850M 2GB   Screen: 1080p IPS  
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The general use computers are decent (ranging from core 2 duos to i3s); but, the CS lab computers are really nice. All of the CS computers have an i7 and 8GB of ram with a few getting an upgrade every year to the latest i7. Almost none of them have a dedicated GPU, but that doesn't matter since you don't really have enough space on an account to download any serious games.

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Intel thinkpad. pentium 4's onboard graphics. 600p monitors. runs hot. im the official school IT guy, everytime shit happens i fix it. sometimes they dont read the text like "F2 to continue with settings" they just say

"help my cpu dont work!"

"fuckin ass its PC press the F2"

"wheres the F2?"

"here! ffs"

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We have a PC with a 4960X (OC'd) and (I believe) 64GB of RAM in the motion capture studio and a few systems with xeons but they have to be either specially reserved with a damn good reason or they are used for the scientific research. The normal PC's are I5-3570 non-k, 8GB of RAM so they are very decent/

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Right now the School Laptop I have is the Lenovo Twist With i73537U @2.00GHz and 8Gb of memory

Because he had a hard drive.

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My school just upgraded their lab computers. Intel Core i5-4570's, 4GB of RAM and some Palit GT 630. Not great but at least it's half decent -_-

CPU: Intel Core i5-4670k Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 3 RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB 1866 Video Card: MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G SSD: Samsung 840 Evo 250GB HDD: WD 1TB + 500GB Caviar Blue
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750W G2 Case: Gigabyte GZ-G1 Mouse: Corsair M65 RGB Keyboard: Corsair K70 MX Brown MousePad: Corsair MM200
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I work at a High School as the IT Manager. We have 130 21.5" iMacs (mid 2011), 300 13" Macbook Pros (mid 2012), 90 13" Macbook Airs (mid 2012) and 300 iPad 3s.

My Rig!


Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D, Mobo: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming, CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K (OC'd to 4.2Ghz), RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400Mhz, GFX: 2 x Gigabyte GTX770 OC Windforce in SLI, CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i with Corsair SP120 Quiet edition fans, SSD: 2 x 256Gb Samsung 840 Pro in Raid 0, Storage: 2Tb WD Caviar Black, PSU: Corsair AX760i, Monitor: Benq XL2024T Keyboard: Corsair K70, Mouse: Razer Taipan

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well my old high school prettyx crappy pcs even for the time but i cant remember the specs.

my college on the other hand was a special it college and had quadros running everywhere even with half decent processors (also cant remember specs)

my workplace now is a phenom II X6 1055T, 8 gigs of 1333 ram and a passive 5450, wich is not much but enough for what im am doing most of the time since this is not a very graphical job. though i have to say that stock heatsink is killing me.

"You know it'll clock down as soon as it hits 40°C, right?" - "Yeah ... but it doesnt hit 40°C ... ever  😄"

 

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When I was a high school we had the BBC Acorns.

 

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My Rig!


Case: Corsair Obsidian 650D, Mobo: MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming, CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K (OC'd to 4.2Ghz), RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 2400Mhz, GFX: 2 x Gigabyte GTX770 OC Windforce in SLI, CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i with Corsair SP120 Quiet edition fans, SSD: 2 x 256Gb Samsung 840 Pro in Raid 0, Storage: 2Tb WD Caviar Black, PSU: Corsair AX760i, Monitor: Benq XL2024T Keyboard: Corsair K70, Mouse: Razer Taipan

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At my high school all the computers kinda suck. We're using old Pentium computers from the early 2000's with I think vista? I'm not entirely sure but nobody uses them anymore anyways because we all have dell chrome books now. Personally, they're not all that bad for what they are intended for (research, google docs, etc) and they have pretty decent battery life :) but I'd still rather have a windows laptop i think...

Just a normal guy with a constant desire to modify everything he owns. 

Check out my current build here:

https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1006447-the-cake-is-a-lie-water-cooled-portal-pc/

 

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My school has old Dell and IBM's..Yes i did just say IBM, remember that old guy? Old Dual core intel Cpu's on 90% of the Pc's with 4gb ram

Dylan Scully | Irish | IT Management Student | PC Gamer | Liker of fluffy animals and memes

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My High School's desktops generally used i5-3570s (I use/own the k version) with 8GB RAM running Win 7 and they were pretty good. However the majority of the laptops just sucked balls with tons of them having boot issues.

 

Intel thinkpad. pentium 4's onboard graphics. 600p monitors. runs hot. im the official school IT guy, everytime shit happens i fix it. sometimes they dont read the text like "F2 to continue with settings" they just say

"help my cpu dont work!"

"fuckin ass its PC press the F2"

"wheres the F2?"

"here! ffs"

Yeah, this gets annoying. I continually have to remind myself of the entitled yuppies in my area knowing nothing about tech; at community college I have this one guy who complains about the laptops running i5 processors instead of i7. Truthfully though there isn't a real reason to be running an i7 on those laptops, the less powerful HDD and power consumption limit would bottleneck you anyways.

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The laptops I was given by my college are pretty good with i7's, 8GB RAM and some mobile Nvidia card but it doesn't do any good when the 5200 RPM hard drive is bloated with all kinds of student help garbage and a locked down windows. They don't want you to change anything without first asking an administrator, and they're never at their desk so I almost never use this thing.

 

The most infuriating thing is that they charge $500 a semester for it but we don't get to keep it, and they won't let me use my own, and they made it mandatory for all students.

what.

the.

hell.

 

thats bloody rediculious.....

cant bring your own?!?!?!?!?!?!

you're better of using pen and paper. or changing school...

or do what i did. be homeschooled. ^~^

Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger, forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. 
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