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<blockquote data-quote="Giga Hertz" data-source="post: 34669" data-attributes="member: 306"><p>When I started at the school, we had a mix of computer labs. The newest were 18x 4th gen i7s that they'd ordered from the city, but had knock-off power supplies, so the first thing I did when I started was replace 18x power supplies.</p><p></p><p>We had a lab with 28x Dell OptiPlex 780s (Core 2s with Vista stickers on them) - most of them had covers where floppy drives/card readers would go, but had fallen off. This resulted in crap being shoved in there by students. As soon as I was able, I replaced them with 4th gen i3s (with SSDs). We also had another lab with about 12 computers that also needed replacing that eventually got 6th-gen i3s with SSDs. So in the cleanup, I grabbed a heap of them instead of disposing of them.</p><p></p><p>The 18x i7s eventually got replaced by Ryzen 5s and then moved into a STEM room where I'd also built a heap of AMD A8s. Those are still there for the time being.</p><p></p><p>Anything I didn't take or throw, got picked up for recycling. This included about 26 4th gen i5s. Everything on-site also had an SSD when I left because I made sure to replace all of the HDDs.</p><p></p><p>I know longterm the principal wants it to be <em>only </em>Chromebooks, which makes me glad I'm finally out of there. I know a lot of staff, particularly those that use real programs, aren't impressed. One conversation we had she used the phrase 'engineers use Chromebooks'... that was the point of the conversation where I checked out and started mentally writing my resume.</p><p></p><p><strong>NOTE: all of these were wiped before I took or disposed of them so there's no data leaks at all.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Giga Hertz, post: 34669, member: 306"] When I started at the school, we had a mix of computer labs. The newest were 18x 4th gen i7s that they'd ordered from the city, but had knock-off power supplies, so the first thing I did when I started was replace 18x power supplies. We had a lab with 28x Dell OptiPlex 780s (Core 2s with Vista stickers on them) - most of them had covers where floppy drives/card readers would go, but had fallen off. This resulted in crap being shoved in there by students. As soon as I was able, I replaced them with 4th gen i3s (with SSDs). We also had another lab with about 12 computers that also needed replacing that eventually got 6th-gen i3s with SSDs. So in the cleanup, I grabbed a heap of them instead of disposing of them. The 18x i7s eventually got replaced by Ryzen 5s and then moved into a STEM room where I'd also built a heap of AMD A8s. Those are still there for the time being. Anything I didn't take or throw, got picked up for recycling. This included about 26 4th gen i5s. Everything on-site also had an SSD when I left because I made sure to replace all of the HDDs. I know longterm the principal wants it to be [I]only [/I]Chromebooks, which makes me glad I'm finally out of there. I know a lot of staff, particularly those that use real programs, aren't impressed. One conversation we had she used the phrase 'engineers use Chromebooks'... that was the point of the conversation where I checked out and started mentally writing my resume. [B]NOTE: all of these were wiped before I took or disposed of them so there's no data leaks at all.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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