What computers does your University/School/College have?

When I was at Uni we had loads of 27" i5 iMacs and some dual screen (24" IPS) Dells with i7s and 16GB ram. This was 4 years ago or so.

Although that was for video production, photo editing etc. Most had i3s/4gb.
 
At school, we had an early RM Nimbus 8086 network, which was.. interesting.. moved on to university where we had a 80386 network running netware 3.

Currently where I work, we have basic i5's with a massive 4gb of memory and a piddly 500gb hard drive, but I suppose I shouldn't complain, they gave some of us free office 365 licenses, so I get to run that on my work computer, home computer, even my phone.
 
I work at a school. PC's we got over summer are Core i5-4460, 4gb RAM 120gb SSD and they are our best windows pc's and the the worst are DELL Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8ghz 2gb Ram 160gb HDD which are about 7+ years old.

We also have a suite of 28 Apple iMac 27" quad -core i5 3.2ghz, 8gb Ram, 1TB HDD, GT755m Graphics Card.

But as a school we are skint and can't afford to replace any computers :(
 
At Uni, decent kit is expected these days. The student experience can be heavily influenced by it and in these days of NSS surveys and increased competition, having nice kit is important.

Also, don't forget on tech savvy courses the Technicians speccing it all up are probably just as excited to get half decent machines too. ;)
 
It's always entertaining when the grads start every year and get brought down to earth when they realise that IT equipment in the real world isn't a patch on what they had access to in the 'underfunded' education sector.
 
Mynight said:
32gb of ram? :eek: I don't even think our servers had that much ram when I was at school and we were the "IT specialist" school :D.

32gb does seem a bit overkill for computing surely? That's pushing towards multiple VMs or video/photo work.
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The Quadro would suggest CAD work, which can be very RAM intensive.
 
When I was at Uni we had 386s and 486s ... the latter being an issue as there weren't any of them and they were needed for some physics software we used and the year below kept on installing games on them and using them for that rather than work. We used to get in early and remove said games and close the loopholes they'd used to install them.

Other than that we used to use Sun workstations
 
At school we had 32k RAM BBC model B's and and a 10mb "Winchester" HD server - cutting edge in 1984! - and a rife games piracy scene for kids who had BBC's at home, then they "upgraded" to RM480z's and the after school computer club died overnight.
 
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