Yoder54
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"Also the PCs at my school are ancient, but have the following parts (I might have broken a few rules looking up there system specs):
Basic:
P4 2.2 Ghz
1GB DDR 333 Mhz
graphics unknown
20GB HDD
For teachers:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8 Ghz
1GB DDR 333 Mhz
Both of which have 1GB OF RAM!!!"
So, what kind of tech ed goes on over there? It is a tragedy that students have to use crap like that. In our Mac labs we run Final Cut for video editing, and Logic Pro, Cubase, and Pro Tools in the digital recording class. We also have a Game Design class that is run on the Dell's, but we need better specs to run Torque and Maya. We also run CS3 on all of the machines.
It is a shame when kids only use computers for word processing and running archaic educational software.
@warzme: find me a 17" laptop with 1920 resolution, DDR3 1066, FSB 1066, 2.8 or greater CPU, 320 7200 rpm HD, blue tooth capabilities, audio editing and video editing software, a decent OS (think Vista Ultimate) for a significantly cheaper price than the Apple. You won't. With the education discount most PCs were about $100 more than the Mac, and the Alien Ware and Puget Computers were a few hundred more. You need to work with exact specifications. The Sony came in about the same.
I have a clean box at home an Vista is always stalling or throwing the BSOD at me. At least three times a week. Fortunately, I just use it for Web development...everything else is now done on the Mac to increase productivity. My set-up is a 17" MacBook Pro with 24" monitor, and a dual monitor 24" and 19" 64-bit Vista Ultimate. The Vista box boots in about 5-10 minutes while the Mac is under 1 min. The Vista crashes on a regular basis and there is no easy way to determine or fix it. The only time my Mac failed was the result of some software I installed. I looked at the report, saw where the crash occured and uninstalled the culprit...if only Windows was so easy.
Basic:
P4 2.2 Ghz
1GB DDR 333 Mhz
graphics unknown
20GB HDD
For teachers:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+ 1.8 Ghz
1GB DDR 333 Mhz
Both of which have 1GB OF RAM!!!"
So, what kind of tech ed goes on over there? It is a tragedy that students have to use crap like that. In our Mac labs we run Final Cut for video editing, and Logic Pro, Cubase, and Pro Tools in the digital recording class. We also have a Game Design class that is run on the Dell's, but we need better specs to run Torque and Maya. We also run CS3 on all of the machines.
It is a shame when kids only use computers for word processing and running archaic educational software.
@warzme: find me a 17" laptop with 1920 resolution, DDR3 1066, FSB 1066, 2.8 or greater CPU, 320 7200 rpm HD, blue tooth capabilities, audio editing and video editing software, a decent OS (think Vista Ultimate) for a significantly cheaper price than the Apple. You won't. With the education discount most PCs were about $100 more than the Mac, and the Alien Ware and Puget Computers were a few hundred more. You need to work with exact specifications. The Sony came in about the same.
I have a clean box at home an Vista is always stalling or throwing the BSOD at me. At least three times a week. Fortunately, I just use it for Web development...everything else is now done on the Mac to increase productivity. My set-up is a 17" MacBook Pro with 24" monitor, and a dual monitor 24" and 19" 64-bit Vista Ultimate. The Vista box boots in about 5-10 minutes while the Mac is under 1 min. The Vista crashes on a regular basis and there is no easy way to determine or fix it. The only time my Mac failed was the result of some software I installed. I looked at the report, saw where the crash occured and uninstalled the culprit...if only Windows was so easy.