On Monday 27 October 2003 17:25, Graham Trott wrote:
Sounds a bit on the high side to me. After all, 1.7GHz and 80GB was still pretty state-of-the-art little over a year ago. How many schools keep all their equipment that new?
Me too, also bear in mind that if the school is using RM connect or any other RM supplied infrastructure the chances of a pupil being able to insert a CD rom and play the contents is very unlikely (even the win98 based RM clients are VERY locked down). Better to have something that can be installed/managed centrally and therefore no disks to get lost/damaged etc.
In fact in at least one school I regularly attend to, there are NO cdrom drives in the teaching areas.
If you are talking about something that is to be run as a presentation by the teacher, then in the schools I have dealt with, teachers have access to Laptops/Projectors etc as a teaching resource. Usually these are quite recent, some will have been supplied as part of Computers for Schools etc, some may be bought just for this sort of thing.
Such bravery, putting XP net-facing in such numbers. Of course they keep all the machines patched...
Not really brave at all. Most Schools I have dealt with have either their own net proxy, or one supplied by the education centric ISP. You don't really think that most schools have machines sitting with a clear route to/from the Internet do you ?
Wayne