Contrary to most people here, my high school (I graduated this year) used entirely IBM products that rarely had problems, as far as I could tell. This may be due to the highly competent IT teacher who always knew exactly what hardware and software was most needed for each class.
Guess what I paid... FREE! No, I did not pirate the game, my friend who is family sharing with me bought it today so I'm downloading it while I'm at music lessons :3
Also, I don't know about you, but the school gives us laptops to use and take home! and we also get to keep them after we leave school too! I've had mine since year 9 and now I'm finishing up year 11, so its had some adventures with me, but its rocking on like a tank, its not fast tho, its 4gb ram, celeron 1.5GHZ laptop, but it was a smart choice, it can do word fine, search the web and watch youtube without lag (Unless you have a 4+ tabs open then it slows down) and annoyingly, even tho this laptop is really light on power, I only get 4 - 6 hours out of it on normal use, 7 max, min 3. Its restricted, but its usable, websites are only blocked at school (before it was coded into the OS) and the fact that I'm getting it after school is still neat, I mean, I'll take a free laptop that is still works and is fine, it runs windows 7. Once I leave school, I'll upgrade the ram and see if I can get a bigger battery, the lag while using chrome tho kills me, but back with IE it used to freeze for 30 seconds before a youtube video would start
Nothing better than knowing than knowing people have your back Except spooning, especially with one of those people.
My secondary school had enterprise grade wifi covering the whole school allowing students to bring their own devices but mainly focused towards ipads, Intel I3's in all of the IT computers and Intel I5's with 8gb of RAM and 1080p screens in the music tech computers. The teachers podium computers were lower spec since they get the last gen IT PC's. Then Google Drive was used for all work related stuff. They also had mac book pro's for students to take out on loan to do school work. I think they worked on something like a 3-4 year refresh cycle for computers. Then at uni the IT computers are fairly high end and all have gtx750ti's in them, one room has all 1080p monitors the other two have 27" 1440p monitors (and a handful of mac's in one of the rooms). Although i believe this setup is fairly standard for a university IT department. Also, this is pretty cool: Oh, and take two are apparently being scumbags. Some people are trying to make a mod that will allow for a non-rockstar based multiplayer in GTA5, where players can host private servers etc. But take two are trying to shut them down. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/...two-sent-private-investigators-to-their-home/
At my school, we mainly use those little Lenovo net-top computers with 4gb ram and a Core i3 low power unit. In the Engineering classroom (where I'll spend most of my school year) they use towers with Core i5's and gtx750ti's (AutoDesk Inventor isn't all that performance heavy). They run decently well. In the Computer Programming classroom (where I'll spend next semester for virtual reality) they use Core i7 3770(non-k) and Radeon 8000 series graphics (Blender is used there, that's slightly more intensive). I once tried playing Beam on one of the programming computers, those 8000 series GPU's are gutless, it ran about as well as my laptop with the quad core Pentium and integrated graphics ran.
My school has a laptop program. We get Acer Travelmates, which are actually pretty nice. They have 8GB of ram, i5's that run at 2.5GHz (don't remember the specific model), and they also have a fancy adobe suite, with photoshop, premiere elements 11, and a whole bunch more of expensive adobe software. (I believe it's the CS5 suite.) Sadly, my brother and I are probably 2 of the 5 people in our school that might use this software... (Except the media arts classes, which probably only use PS.) And we have to pay close to $300/year... At the end we can take them though (for a smaller fee I think), and all restrictions are removed, etc. If the software is removed from the computer, then there's no way I'm keeping mine, I'll just get a new laptop that won't be outdated if I need one in the future.
We used to use Lenovo T500's at my school. They were junk with 4 gb ram and a slower Core 2 Duo. They all had bad screens and took forever to boot. They replaced them with those stupid Chromebooks. Good thing that my school lets you bring your own computer, so I carry my iPad with me.
My school's connected with a middle school, and now the middle school students can bring chromebooks. Which also means they're stuck with chromebooks when they come up to the highschool. Too bad for them.
Cops raid Georgia Man's house Lol. What a waste of resources. "Whether this was a cannabis plant or not, the very idea of sending in heavily armed militarized police to kidnap and cage a person for cultivating a plant, is criminal." That's the south for you. I'm honestly getting tired tired of the ignorant and behind-the-times way of life of the "good 'ol" conservative southeastern U.S. I wanna move to Colorado or Wyoming or something. New England still sucks though, progressive or not. Sorry.
I guess thats the trade off with our school, yeah our laptops are slow and outdated, but I have paid 0 pennies to use this laptop over the 3 year I've had it, and we get to keep it for free with the restrictions being removed!
I even touched one. It's kinda depressing knowing I'll never own one, or one of it's offspring (I'm looking at you, 488 GTB). I'd like the G-Wagen too, what a good family car for a rich man.
>be me, goes to create SoundCloud account for new found music mixing skills >wtf.jpg I already have one? >one file, uploaded 4 years ago >mfw it's bloody terrible EDIT: Just in case y'all were curious: https://soundcloud.com/redrobin1257/ Don't listen to "Matrixcraft Theme", it horrid, god awful, and was made when I had no understanding of music. The 2 newer tracks are much better. I may not be Gabester, but I don't think it's all that bad.
the difference in quality isn't huge. if anything, the mix progression in your old one seems far more developed. probably just different kinds of music, but from an objective standpoint the only real difference is between old and new is the old one's chord progression (which is... interesting... to say the least)
