Soldato
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I thought it would be a laugh to compare. How ancient are they? What CPU? What OS, what antivirus? What Office version if it's a PC? Do you have to hot-desk?
Mine's a Dell, one of those slightly low profile ones that look like a VHS recorder. It's also one of those weird ones where the sound comes from within the machine; you don't need desktop speakers. Anyway, the CPU is a hyperthreaded 2.8GHz, which as you may remember on Overclockers, came out in 2003. Decent spec back then, but it's 2012 now! 1GB RAM and 80GB hard disk. It runs Windows XP with Internet Exploder 7. Even though IE7 is ancient, it crawls very slowly on pages like Wikipedia and most NHS sites. Like takes 30 seconds to load most pages. The antivirus is McAfee.. not the lightweight V Shield that most companies use, but oh no, we had to go for the full monty product. Feel the joy as you watch the CPU in Task Manager being sucked up by mcshield.exe for a good 10 minutes as the Windows environment loads and then at random intervals during the working day. The one good thing going for this PC though is that they left the Office version at 2003 which was the last the one that MS did of the 'older type'. Not matter how much I supported clients in Office 2007 (1st-line tech), I could never get my head around that ribbon. I find it counter-productive.
Mine's a Dell, one of those slightly low profile ones that look like a VHS recorder. It's also one of those weird ones where the sound comes from within the machine; you don't need desktop speakers. Anyway, the CPU is a hyperthreaded 2.8GHz, which as you may remember on Overclockers, came out in 2003. Decent spec back then, but it's 2012 now! 1GB RAM and 80GB hard disk. It runs Windows XP with Internet Exploder 7. Even though IE7 is ancient, it crawls very slowly on pages like Wikipedia and most NHS sites. Like takes 30 seconds to load most pages. The antivirus is McAfee.. not the lightweight V Shield that most companies use, but oh no, we had to go for the full monty product. Feel the joy as you watch the CPU in Task Manager being sucked up by mcshield.exe for a good 10 minutes as the Windows environment loads and then at random intervals during the working day. The one good thing going for this PC though is that they left the Office version at 2003 which was the last the one that MS did of the 'older type'. Not matter how much I supported clients in Office 2007 (1st-line tech), I could never get my head around that ribbon. I find it counter-productive.
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