Rubbish Work's PC's

[!TIMMY!]

Here at work the PC's are so so so bad! I have only just been upgraded to 512mb of DDR1 PC2700. I had to struggle on Windows XP with just 256mb before. I have 512mb on my graphics card at home!

2 People in my office are still on Windows 2000 lol! I also liked how everyone but the PC's on Windows 2000 have been upgraded to Office 2003, when that is 5 years old, and Office 2007 is out. Windows 2000 PC's don't get the upgrade, probably because they wouldn't meet the min spec lol.

Sigh. Rant over.

[ionicle]

sounds like college, we're on 933MHz pentium 3's, and if your lucky, you get the 1.4 P4, with either 128 or 256mb of DDR333, or somtimes 266, but the network is fast enough, so its not THAT bad, but we still use office XP too, and they all run xp for us atleast...

[Toxcity]

Originally Posted by name='ionicle'

sounds like college, we're on 933MHz pentium 3's, and if your lucky, you get the 1.4 P4, with either 128 or 256mb of DDR333, or somtimes 266, but the network is fast enough, so its not THAT bad, but we still use office XP too, and they all run xp for us atleast...

Wow what college do you got to?

The lowest spec PC at our college open to students is a 3Ghz P4 with 512Mb RAM.

And the highest spec open to students is a Core 2 Duo E6400 with 2Gb of Ram.

I was well surprised!

[Bungral]

Kelsey Grammar...

[ionicle]

thats just the computer course room...

the library has C2D ones

the computer lab has 400MHz P4's

but the media room has C2Q

its a bit unfair really

we're getting onto the student council to do summet bout it...

they said they're working on it..

i go to East Riding College in Bridlington

[Rastalovich]

If it makes u feel any better.. ur not alone. Although they`re not as wide spread, we have Compaq Evo(p4,pc133)/Dell Opti 260&270(p4,ddr)/HP DC7100/7600/7700+ thankfully in fairly decent ratios, but even so, out of 2000+ machines the numbers are fairly high.

Installed 512m strips of pc133 in 8/10 machines only last month - meh ??

As far as colleges are concerned, I would have thought it would pay for chip/hardware manufacturers to fill these places with gear that is good or atleast better than the average user/student`s home pc, at their own expense. Even if it was gear about to be eol. If ur school pc is better than ur home one, u`ll more likely spend money on upgrading.

Old machines are a pain to maintain tho.

[Toxcity]

LOLZ, College with a Geforce?

[Rastalovich]

Yeah it can sound spooky.

But I bet a pc made of:

AMD 939 x2 cpu

4g ddr

Geforce 7600+ series

(just as an example)

May not spank the 3dmarks, but it`ll handle a heck of alot of college based stuff, office, web dev, minor editing, and is better than many of the HP/Dell setups they usually have.

Switch out the Geforce for a... X1950 ?? (whatever it`s called), or I spose an ati 2xxx series, arguably older AM2 x2 cpus, and AMD/ATI could gain alot of friends with "old" kit. Potential customers too perhaps.

Make a unit, call it something, and charge the education places a rediculously small price for them. (of course the education places generally contract out to IT firms, who have their own contracts, so therein lies one problem.)

[NickS]

Lowest spec computers at my High School are P4 2.4's with 256MB RAM, and they're only in one room. Highest spec ones are 4400+ Brisbane's X2's with 2GB RAM. They're in all of the classrooms.

[PP Mguire]

My SR year in high school all the PCs where running P4 3.0ghz with 1gig DDR2 667 and FX5600s.