School computers are very crap

[Techguystu]

just thought i will give info on the school pcs i have to go on

512mb ram
pentium dual core inside
32mb internal intel graphics chipset
profile space 10mb :/

but i cant tell you much more as the computer are restricted

 

[Crispy]

School computers are not intended to be powerful, they are for school use not game and multitasking use.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
same as a lot of Office computers --most businesses have a fairly long time before changing equipment.

Long gone are the days where you had better gear at School or at work -- it's totally the other way around now and is often very frustrating to take 30 mins to perform a task on obsolete gear that would take you 5 mins at home on your own machine.

However if you really want schools to always have top notch gear then you'd better be prepared for a really HEFTY HIKE in your income tax -- and who would be in charge of procurement, installation, servicing etc etc.

I'm not getting into that one.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Everlong]

Aslong as they do what you need to do in school, there's no problem.

 

[manhunter2826]

It certainly does not help matters that many colleges/schools/universities -- and I've seen quite a few -- employ complete incompetents to run their networks...Oops !

 

[Everlong]

I'd take a larger monitor to work on at school/college/university any day than a faster computer

 

[noyb]

If a take home computer is provided by the School ..
It may be doing More than you want.

 

[CarlTR6]

Very good point, Noyb.

 

[noyb]

It was one the news a couple weeks ago ..
That a student was expelled for doing something that the school did not like ..
(as viewed by the spyware ...)
Even though what he was doing had nothing to do with the school.

I can't help wondering who they think they are ... Judge and Jury .. Or just God ??
And why were they watching ???

 

[Thorsen]

It was one the news a couple weeks ago ..
That a student was expelled for doing something that the school did not like ..
(as viewed by the spyware ...)
Even though what he was doing had nothing to do with the school.

I can't help wondering who they think they are ... Judge and Jury .. Or just God ??
And why were they watching ???

yeah I read about that too. very disturbing.

 

[CarlTR6]

It was one the news a couple weeks ago ..
That a student was expelled for doing something that the school did not like ..
(as viewed by the spyware ...)
Even though what he was doing had nothing to do with the school.

I can't help wondering who they think they are ... Judge and Jury .. Or just God ??
And why were they watching ???

I could answer that question; but that would invoke a political discussion. Let's just say it is about control.

 

[gladson1976]

It was one the news a couple weeks ago ..
That a student was expelled for doing something that the school did not like ..
(as viewed by the spyware ...)
Even though what he was doing had nothing to do with the school.

I can't help wondering who they think they are ... Judge and Jury .. Or just God ??
And why were they watching ???

I could answer that question; but that would invoke a political discussion. Let's just say it is about control.

But there is a limit to the control. Its actually a thin line between control and censorship or dictatorship

 

[CarlTR6]

I don't disagree.

 

[Carl Lawrence]

Also it might be the noise, I have noticed that office/school computers are quiet compared to my PC.

 

[Techguystu]

Well the computer manufacture is dell as well but i guess they are ok for school work and online here witch is about the only thing you could get on from all the internet security and filtering systems

 

[Dinesh]

just thought i will give info on the school pcs i have to go on

512mb ram
pentium dual core inside
32mb internal intel graphics chipset
profile space 10mb :/

And the old Windows XP. LOL

 

[None Spac Wilko]

Well the computer manufacture is dell as well but i guess they are ok for school work and online here witch is about the only thing you could get on from all the internet security and filtering systems

I agree with you stu, as i go the same skl as you, but the restictions have never stoped me, you or Jamie trying to hack the system, and all of us have done diffrent things like you and the time which was funny, but then we got told off, but the main pc's are mostly for school work, which we don't know the meaning of, and the limot of stuff and filtering will never get it our way as long as we have Note pad.

 

[stevieray]

You kids don't know how good you have it. In my day, the school computer was an abacus! And we had to walk through three feet of snow to get to it! Up hill... both ways! And half the time you couldn't use it anyway 'cause a mastodon was sleeping on it...

Harumph! Kids today!

 

[WindowsStar]

You kids don't know how good you have it. In my day, the school computer was an abacus! And we had to walk through three feet of snow to get to it! Up hill... both ways! And half the time you couldn't use it anyway 'cause a mastodon was sleeping on it...

Harumph! Kids today!

:roflmao:

 

[None Spac Wilko]

You kids don't know how good you have it. In my day, the school computer was an abacus! And we had to walk through three feet of snow to get to it! Up hill... both ways! And half the time you couldn't use it anyway 'cause a mastodon was sleeping on it...

Harumph! Kids today!

:roflmao: now I do feel happy with the slow pc's