School Computers Suck Agree or Disagree?

[erub]

21" FD trintrons! Holy schit..!

My school has P2-350s in the lab, and P-500s in the library (I think) - the internet is pretty fast, fractional t1 at 50k/sec - I used to download stuff and put it on zip disks till they found out..but by that time I had DSL at home at 155k/sec Our monitors stink though, their 15" that havent been upgraded in 5 years I think. We only have some built in Windows filtering, which is pretty lame and allows most sites.

But when I checked out UCLA and CalTech, I tested their internet connections on the computers that they had setup..when I found out that CalTech's was only 50k/sec (probably cause of the iMac), I crossed it off my list - UCLA got 200k/sec BTW at MSN's speedtest.

 

[SSP]

We've gotten a 125KB download in the morning (usually no once's using them except the Computer classes).

Anyway, we have Celeron 333's (fast enough to run a Q2 LAN party), and they do the job right (not that slow, but the P2 266's on the old room are horrid). So why complain?

BTW, we just got another new Computer Lab, but I don't know how fast they are. I'm sure they're much faster then the Celerons we have in our older Lab.

 

[Viperoni]

We have p!impin terminal servers.
p233's, 32mb ram, 20 going through a 3com 16port hub.
server is dual p3 500 with Raid 1 9.1gig SCSI's.
*The pain*

 

[Static911]

the southern millionares university comps suck a nut...

All Macs (NOt G4, but those all-in-a-monitor comps) and they use NETSCAPE...wat kind of bull is that???

Static911

 

[Valhalla1]

the ones at my high school were pretty bad too, P2-266's, 64mb ram.

and all the computers in the whole school district (like 50 schools, hundreds of computers each) were all filtered through ONE proxy server that filtered out cuss words and nudie pics, etc.

talk about a bottleneck! the district had I think 3 T1's to share for the whole district, but going thru a single P-266 proxy server (which crashed all the time) was horrible.. connection speeds less than 28.8's

 

[Theslowone]

We have in most of our computers either p3 800 or p3 650, depending on when they were upgraded. With 128mbs of ram and usually 17" monitors, but sometimes 19. In the technical part we have sun machines, and about 8 -10 labs of SGI machines with 19" and 21" monitors.

 

[Bluga]

We've got about 80 Sun Sparc UNIX machines here, not too bad.

 

[Doodoo]

PIII 450's in the computer labs. We just upgraded the library...haven't had a chance to check em out, but all 19 inch flat screens I think. All provided by IBM. Internet connection isn't bad...during peak times dl speeds are bout 50 or 60 k. In the morning its about 100-200. Near the holidays when people are getting ready to go home I get about 300 k.

 

[TuffGuy]

no restrictions on these p3s either

 

[fragarific]

My college U of Rochester has an equal number of Mac and PC even though the PC's widely more accepted by the students. The probably think we'll learn how tho use a mac just because it's free in the lab.

 

[A5]

We got P3 700s on 810e, with 17" monitors and the school has a T1 connection. A lot faster than this damn 56k.

 

[Zedfu]

my school computer totally sucks ass. they got a bunch of c300 connected to a couple servers, and get this, with all of them sharing a crappy 56k connection! i mean, come on, i don't want to wait 5 minutes to download a page...if i want to do this, i can do it even faster on my old 486dx3.

 

[Prodigy^]

Agreed.....kinda, hehe.

In my highschool we had at first one computer with dial-up. Got kinda embarrasing sitting there having the librarian stare at you while you came in often and dialed up that lame 28.8k connection. Then they got a pretty fast (up to 30 k/s download) always-on connection, boy that helped.

Then they installed something that cleared everything downloaded/installed and such upon boot, cleared bookmarks, etc, basically set everything to default.

Then we got two computers, this was sweet, meant less fighting over the one computer.....

Then I *proud* found out how to get rid of that auto-restore startup program muhahah.....just pressed ctrl+alt+del on startup, found the program's name and *swoooosh* gone was the program. Of course, things got a little messy as people installed all kinds of junk on the computer and it got virus and such.....lol.

Anyway, during the last ½ year of so, one of the computers was almost constantly used for this pretty fun bomberman game, plus we'd find all sorts of funny old games from a cool website and sit there and go mad playing them.....hehe, those were the days....

Now I'm (kinda) at uni, and those computers suck big time it's Sun terminals which means Unix which means BIG CRAPOLA nutscrape for unix......tiny tiny fonts and totally screwed design and formatting...and it's so laggy sometimes it's worse than a 14.4k modem. And I swear, they crash and go down just as often as Windows.....I fail to see the point of it...heh.

 

[Supradude]

he he, our new p3 800's (cc0's) have Nvidia TnT2 32 MB vid cars, SB pci 16 sound, 3com NICS all on 815 chipsets!!! ha ha, pretty nice since they're brand new and running Win 2k, a warm welcome from the P pro's, and PII's we had running NT4

 

[Mday]

depends on what school... public schools are lame. university labs are likely to be lame...

art department computers are meant to ROCK!, sometimes...

 

[Prodigy^]

"art department computers are meant to ROCK!, sometimes"

art = photoshop = mac = suck

 

[teckmaster]

The school where I work, all the computeres in the school area t least an AMD 450Mhz, 64mb ram, 8gb hd, and 45X cd-roms. They are networked with 3Com 905B-TX network cards running at 100mbs over our 100mb fiber backbone. Our internet service is running through a cable modem and it's not slow by any means. some sites are blocked, but any educational should be able to be hit. If not, the teacher calls me and in 10mins they can hit the site. We also are our own Website host.

 

[zippy]

My schools computers are pretty good.

About 40% Pentium3, 60% Pentium2 (nothing below 350MHz though). The computers in the tech labs are pretty nice for school computers, I think they are P3 667, CD-RW, 21" FD Trinitron monitors, fairly decent sound, the only thing that sucks donkey balls is the TNT2 M64 8MB that they used. It gives those great monitors ghosting up the wazzoo and makes it impossible to run at 1600x1200.

We have a few hundred computers at my school (one in each classroom, a lab in the library, a lab in a room attached to the library, a big lab across the hall from the library, then two big labs all the way across the school- I'll have to find out the exact count some day), we are one of the better off public schools.

EDIT: I dunno what connection they are- I think it is a few T1 connections.

 

[T2T III]

For the private University that I went to a few years back, the PCs were pretty cool. Pentium CPUs with Asus motherboards. Apparently, the PCs were built by a local shop that utilized some quality components.

 

[duragezic]

Hmm our computers are worse than a lot of yours like LTK007's 450's, 128mb ram. We have Mac G3 that are 233mhz, 32mb I believe. Quite sad... they lock up all the time for no reason.

 

[snut]

My school uses G4s

 

[zippy]

Oh yeah! I forgot about the art lab of G4s (23 of them...that is the only lab that I know the exact number because my machead friend told me ) with some nice Apple 21" monitors.

 

[BowDown]

My school has about 7 labs in the AB building... 90% are PC's that range from PII 300's to Celery 600's. The other 10% are G4 Labs. All labs have 17" Monitors.

I benchmarked the internet connection and it was right up there with a 14.4 modem .