Finally- An upgrade at work!!

[MRD]

It's still more than buying a 256mb ram stick.

 

[traldan]

We just upgraded system wide to some reasonably nice HP business machines with Pentium D's and a gig of RAM.

Me, I want to borg em - librarians never use all of one core, let alone two!

 

[EmAn]

our school is always in the process of upgrading

in the last 4 years we went from

IBM - piece o crap
to
Dell - hunk of junk
to
Dell - something kinda looked good
to
Dell - Optiplex GXA something or other with 2.4ghz P4's and 512mb of Ram with xp and all that stuff running off of the server half a mile away!

 

[Xenocide]

We got Dell C2D E6300 systems last spring break with the Dell 1907fp monitors in almost all of our engineering labs

 

[MRD]

The science/math/computer labs often need some more power. The people who are just word processing and checking email don't need much power at all.

 

[EmAn]

ok these new dells are OPTIPLEX 745 Pentium D systems.... where is my toolkit cause i need a new processor!

omg these are killing my computer!

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/optix_745?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

(we have the desktops)

 

[greyharte]

be glad ... they are downgrading where i work ... going from hp/compaqs to wyse s10 thin clients

 

[MRD]

Thin client is probably the future for general purpose business use. You just don't need that much power on the average desktop anymore.

 

[SuperDave1685]

lol MRD. if you were my IT guy.. I'd be really mad at ya

Those old Celeron 1.8's we had with 128MB-256MB of RAM just were not cutting it. Due to the fact of all the billion services running (gotta love gov't crapware!) Right now, just with firefox and Outlook open, I have 53 services running!! And I don't have the rights to disable any of them. They're all network, printer, CAC card, and monitoring services... ugh... I guess if I could knock that down to around 25-30 services, it wouldn't be so bad