school computer experiences

[Firearm2112]

We have lenovos too. I set up a remote desktop connection on my PC at home, and was able to connect to it from the laptop. It was SOOOOO much faster. much recommend

[MblaZe7run]

At my current school, college rather, it's not the computers that are bad. It's the instructor. Each PC has an i7-3770, 16GB 1600MHz RAM, and an Nvidia Quadro card (unsure on model off hand), each with a fiber line as well. Two classrooms with these PCs, 25 in each room. Each room also has a dedicated fiber line from the ISP, each with an SLA in case of downtime/maintenance. Pretty solid machines, especially for the light virtualization and Cisco network configuration we do.

 

However... The teacher constantly refers to the computers as "true 8-core CPUs," when in reality, they only have 4 cores, 8 threads. He also thinks that each computer themselves has a dedicated fiber line to the ISP, which would be absolutely ridiculous. Not unheard of, but ridiculous. Then he goes as far as to say that they have the highest end Quadro and CPU available on the market, with the fastest RAM available (which it is, for the boards. But not in general like he assumes). He's a total moron when it comes to computer specs and hardware. When talking about Cisco equipment, he's spot on. But with desktops that are nearly 3 years old now, and calling them the latest and greatest, he's a facking idiot. Bugs the living hell out of me.

[Zambonie]

We have both dell Laptops (Dell Latitude)(this except with like 300gb hdd, everything else is exact) and Computers (this except older), all of them are like about 7 years old, they all came with windows vista, then downgraded to windows xp, then due to recent state testing a majority of the computers were upgraded to windows 7.

 

We also recently got a small handful of these Lenovo's with Pentiums in them to go in one of our computer labs, they are rather a lot more decent then the other crap computers.

 

But my school board is only $12M in debt (really), so don't blame me.

 

meanwhile the county next to mine provides each one of their students with ipads...

 

Edit: I just realized lenovo changed their logo and website a bit...

[Cwazywazy]

The school uses mostly low profile HP machines. It's a mix of some with fairly beefy i5s and some with Core 2s. (I own a couple of the Core 2s. Guess where I got them. HP DC7800 and Elite 8000.) 

 

Speed is okay. They've been running 7 ever since they upgraded from XP. My school also gives out Chromebooks and ever since I got a Saturday school for using IRC on mine I just bring in my own laptop.

[Overkilled]

Mine have i3's

[snoopy6489]

we have early 2013 mac book airs that are so loaded with monitoring software thats its Russian rulet to reboot them.

[Jared_1]

At my school, we have a class that I take that all we do is edit video. The classrom has some crappy 2.8GHz Dual Core Pentium with Intel G41 graphics while the library has Intel HD 4000 and 3.4 GHz quad core i3s. All they do is browse the web on these computers in the library. Thankfully, our classroom is getting really nice computers with good video cards. Take that library! All of the computers are Lenovo.

[TheElt]

My old school had a mix of i3/4GB and C2D/4GB machines which were easy as hell to brick the BIOS's of, along with some P3 and P4 machines. The CNC mill for electronics used to be ran off some old Toshiba with 32MB RAM since it was the fastest thing around that had a parallel printer port and I was a bit sad when it got replaced.

 

College has a mix of old C2D/2GB machines about to hit their refresh time soon, some Pentium E2XXX/2GB machines dotted around with a little bit to go before refresh, but the bulk are Ivy i3/4GB complimented with i5/4GB laptops and god awful chromebooks, and a few i3/4GB ultrabooks. Everything is Dell, everything is Optiplex, but the new machines have SSDs, they're actually really snappy machines and they don't get loud at all

[AlwaysFSX]

We have old Lenovo PC's with "i5's" at my college, but they have the network setup some weird way so everything is farking slow no matter what you do.

You know what's fun? Having 300 computers all connect to a single server running VMs.

[Pony080905]

At my current school, college rather, it's not the computers that are bad. It's the instructor. Each PC has an i7-3770, 16GB 1600MHz RAM, and an Nvidia Quadro card (unsure on model off hand), each with a fiber line as well. Two classrooms with these PCs, 25 in each room. Each room also has a dedicated fiber line from the ISP, each with an SLA in case of downtime/maintenance. Pretty solid machines, especially for the light virtualization and Cisco network configuration we do.

 

However... The teacher constantly refers to the computers as "true 8-core CPUs," when in reality, they only have 4 cores, 8 threads. He also thinks that each computer themselves has a dedicated fiber line to the ISP, which would be absolutely ridiculous. Not unheard of, but ridiculous. Then he goes as far as to say that they have the highest end Quadro and CPU available on the market, with the fastest RAM available (which it is, for the boards. But not in general like he assumes). He's a total moron when it comes to computer specs and hardware. When talking about Cisco equipment, he's spot on. But with desktops that are nearly 3 years old now, and calling them the latest and greatest, he's a facking idiot. Bugs the living hell out of me.

my english teacher is like that, he lames the laptops for being slow on the windows updates

[Guest Kloaked]

You know what's fun? Having 300 computers all connect to a single server running VMs.

 

I wanna say that's what ours is, more or less.

[RyomaSJibenG]

virus, virus everywhere, i hate school pcs

almost lost my important file due to this doom pcs

[I Am The JK Man]

WE HAVE TO USE CHROMEBOOKS FML :angry:

[KingKeith55]

Some crappy HP computers that have Windows 7 on them but they really can't handle Windows 7 well. They run first gen i5's or something. I never saw the specs because oh wow the school blocks it. Yet I can run batch files and bypass security blocks on CMD no problem.

 

We also have these shit samsung chromebooks. They suck really, really bad. Honestly I bet a Raspberry pi would have better performance than one of those. They're also weak and parts of them become dislocated or loose with general use. (Screen hinges)

 

Also if you hold the fullscreen button with chrome open the screen starts to glitch out because of how slow they are. And if you run a Javascript script that is too long, it crashes the system.

[flowalex]

At my old high school the moden computer lab used IE as the default with firefox as an option using the slowest core i3 ever and the mobile lab was using dell latitudes that had no battery life, what I did was just used my laptop when ever I needed a computer much faster and less issues.  At my university I only use computers that are only accessed by Computing and Digital media Majors

[Jerakl]

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[gcubed]

I am dating myself here, but...

 

The first experience I had in school with computers was in college. They had two of them. A CDC 3600 and a CDC 6500. We communicated with them using 80 column punch cards and if we were lucky we got two turn-arounds a day. There were no such things as desktop computers.

 

So as old and outdated your school's equipment is, it is getting better. Who knows, your kids will probably be complaining about out of date technology that doesn't even exist yet. -P

[Guest]

 I don't think my old school had a single pc not built by dell. They were all crap.

[nerdyrcdriver]

We're using Dell Wyse thin clients to connect using RDP to VMs on overdedicated servers. 6 of them, each has 240GB of RAM and some old Xeon. 1.5GB per VM.

 

My high school did something similar my senior year. I job shadowed the IT guy and it turned out that they were great at the other schools in our district that all had fiber connections to the servers (each of which supposedly had 1TB of ram). But in the main server room there was a box drawn in sharpie on the wall that said "future fiber for high school" since it is much further away than the other schools. 

 

We also had a ton of old dell desktops with 512mb of ram and pentium 4 cpus. 

 

 

My college is a different story. We have mostly dell desktops with core i7s and 16gb of ram. Not sure about graphics. The engineering building has a gigabit internet connection. For the rest of the university it is pretty much i3s or i5s and 4-8gb of ram with about a 15-60mbps internet connection. 

[0x550x42]

In every school, there's one fool called system admin and the guy simply doesn't care about the systems at all...  :angry:

[soup]

 

 

The first experience I had in school with computers was in college. They had two of them. A CDC 3600 and a CDC 6500.

 

Two! All to themselves.  Jings you were spoiled.

[Torg73]

In my day we used ZX Spectrum's with the rubber keyboards and BBC model B's, but that was the 80's so there was no internet for us, the BBC's where connected via LAN so we played MUD.

[Pony080905]

what do you mean

[Tedster]

My high school did something similar my senior year. I job shadowed the IT guy and it turned out that they were great at the other schools in our district that all had fiber connections to the servers (each of which supposedly had 1TB of ram). But in the main server room there was a box drawn in sharpie on the wall that said "future fiber for high school" since it is much further away than the other schools. 

 

We also had a ton of old dell desktops with 512mb of ram and pentium 4 cpus. 

 

 

My college is a different story. We have mostly dell desktops with core i7s and 16gb of ram. Not sure about graphics. The engineering building has a gigabit internet connection. For the rest of the university it is pretty much i3s or i5s and 4-8gb of ram with about a 15-60mbps internet connection. 

We still have some machines with Pentium 4s, we're slowly phasing them out. And the 'teacher computers' that we have are fat clients - they're actually running on the machine. These are terrible. The best have a Pentium D and 2GB of RAM, the worst some sort of Celeron and 1GB. The failure rates are surprisingly low though. Whenever I do a speedtest on a VM, I'm getting about 60mbps down and about 30 up. However, the CCTV probably archives to the cloud, using up some of the upload bandwidth. The connection's fast enough for however many computers though.

 

And you're lucky to get those machines.

[Guest trucker2]

The first experience I had in school with computers was in college. They had two of them. A CDC 3600 and a CDC 6500. We communicated with them using 80 column punch cards and if we were lucky we got two turn-arounds a day. There were no such things as desktop computers.

 

So as old and outdated your school's equipment is, it is getting better. Who knows, your kids will probably be complaining about out of date technology that doesn't even exist yet. -P

 

In jr High my older brother had the punchcards but when I got there they had 300 baud teletypes hooked up to a mini computer at some collage. There was a game called lander that was awesome. You typed in thrust changes to land a lander you could not see. Just distance, gravity and velocity on the teletype. It took me weeks and i may have failed the class but I did land that thing on the moon! It was more fun then not learning Cobol and fortran:) Our computers were slow but our music rocked!