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

[old reece frost]

We have iMacs with core 2 duos in them at college. So nah, not really.

[asim1999]

it doesnt make sense how they invest money into some rooms/labs and neglect others. 

[fryingpan16]

Ones at my Uni are so slow. I can't use them, they make me upset. They take forever just to turn on and boot to windows. I'm sure most people find it fine but my <10sec boot has spoiled me lol

[asim1999]

can u use ur own rig at uni? that is what i plan to do in a couple of years when i go to uni

[NeatSquidYT]

I think my computer suite has all i5 4590's, and pretty wide monitors (idk what aspect ratio), apart from that they're pentiums lol

[StareX]

Nooope... they're too bad..

[spaynton]

The ones at my work were recently refreshed with new lenovo thinkstations with ssd's and sandybridge i5's and i7s... not bad hardware. All desktops had dual 23" monitors. Laptop users got the laptop and an extra 23" monitor.

[Caleb SF]

In my CAD class we have computers with Xeon Chips Dual Core (not sure exact model) and 8 Gb of RAM. Also in every room we have Promethian Boards, even in our ceramics class.

[-ism]

My high school's digital art room has i7-920s and Radeon 6350s.

[CommandMan7]

My school is starting to replace their old pentium laptops with newer ones with i3-4300U's, but their desktops are still 15 year old slim hp clients. we don't have any desktops newer than 2000...

[ryannuttall]

We use dell desktops with intel zeon, 16gb of RAM and an ok video card w/ 2 dispay ports so i connect the 1 24" monitor to my computer and the monitor next to me that 24" monitor so i have like a setup

[L.E.D]

Im in highschool, the computers in my school are all garbage except for the 20 or so that went to the CAD Design class...

[toms94z71]

no, only good thing about them is they run on a linux platform, a modified version of opensuse, and are linked to a sever in the office that is put to shame by my desktop at home.

[mrsimplycrazy]

Currently using Dells with i5 3570s and 4GB ram. Decent enough for schoolwork....or playing LAN games of HALO: Combat Evolved during class that someone installed on the computers my hero

[a_higby]

my school has i3 shit boxes everywhere, but just recently I discovered a room between the two main computer suites that has 3 high end video rendering pc's and 2 huge i-macs. Sorry, don't know thespecs

[Evil_Serban]

Pentiums.. Pentiums everywhere..and some I3s, and some i5s here and there. They all have 4gb of ram. Some of the I5 computers have some ancient GPU.

[Real_PhillBert]

My office has 3570's and Quadro K4000's. Could be worse, could be better.

[Elite14]

Well my school is at my house so, I have a pretty nice pc.

[MasonV]

Laptop provided by the school. 

• i5-4330M
• 8 GB ram
• No graphics card (Integrated 4600 HD only)
• 500 GB HDD
• 1080p screen. (so much potential for gaming but no GPU!!!)

[Mew]

My school library have i5 3470, Radeon 7440?, 8gb of ram.

My school Engineering labs have Q8200?, 4gb ram, Intel graphics

[polyx95]

My uni has mostly unimpressive dell/hp slim towers, but rooms where we have classes that involve a lot of number crunching we have beastly Dell workstations with I believe 6 or 8 core xeons and 32gb ram, also we have this type of workstations available for use at any time in special "PC room"

[decer304]

My Secondary school used to have alot of those lenovo all in ones, which were pretty decent, core i5s, 8 gigs of ram etc. But then, the school got rid of most of them to "save power" and instead, give us these shitty netbooks, which are Dell inspirons with AMD E-450 and 4 gigs of ram. Before, in media classes, using Adobe master collection was pretty nice, now it is sooo goddam slow. it takes a billion years to render a 30s video on After effects.

 

Now i dont really use the school netbook for basic word processing, browsing and the use of adobe master collection at school when i have to. I use my desktop at home for everything else, and use dropbox to sync all my work.

[asim1999]

Even my computing teacher things that the PCs at school suck. thats cos he hates windows and uses ubuntu at home, and thinks windows is "pointless"

[CheesyFries]

The engineering school I study in has 3rd gen i5s and gt 620m. Its good enough for applications we use such as MATLAB and PSpice.
 

OT: One professor has an ROG notebook on his desk in the faculty room

[valen54]

well my university use a HP computer (the all in one thingy, i dont know what it is called) and it is good, it can run almost every software that we need for engineering. it is a shame though that the other pc is full of virus and other crap (i never understand, why did many people doesnt know how to scan the computer and their flasdisk... have to format alot of flashdisk after printing something)