Whats it for?
Typing/Keyboarding skills
Office Applications
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Internet/Email
Educational Courseware
Paint programs (KidPix, etc..)
Web Editing/development
Video Editing
Case Studies
Colville Valley Junior Academy
Milton-Stateline School
Milton-Stateline School
Small K-10 school
Existing lab
Low budget
Keyboarding
Office Applications
Courseware / Internet
Promotional Video Editing
Choosing Hardware
Thick Clients
vs.
Thin Clients
Thick Client
Fast processor
Lots of storage space
State of the Art
Good for multimedia
Nice, but expensive!!
Lots of workstation maintenance often
required.
Thin client
Usually slower processor
Often has no hard drive
Easy management since there
is little to go wrong
Good for Internet/word processing
Speed limited by network and server
Cheap!
Colville
Mars 1000 Workstation
1000mhz AMD Thunderbird Athlon Processor with 266mhz front side bus
Thermaltake Chrome Orb DUO462-2 heat-sink fan
Gigabyte GA-7ZMMH KM133A Based Motherboard
Motherboard includes video and Creative Labs sound onboard
Micron 256mb PC-133 DIMM memory
Teac 3.5 1.44mb floppy disk drive
Seagate 20GB ATA/100 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Afreey 12X IDE DVD-ROM Drive
Iomega Zip 100mb Internal IDE Drive
KDS 15 Monitor
Antec KS388 Mid-Tower case with 250W ATX power supply
Antec 80mm case fan
Logitech Deluxe Access 104 key keyboard with 3 launch buttons
Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse w/Belkin premium blue mouse pad
LabTec Elite-820 Headphones with 9 cord
Netgear FA311 10/100 PCI Network card
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional w/free XP upgrade option
Deep Freeze Pro for NTFS security software
Grisofts AVG Anti-Viral software free edition (upgrades available)
Thick Clients
20 Workstations
Cost: $18,000
Total bid:
..
$899.99 + tax
200
5000
1 Memory lot
200
200
25 Logitech Mice
15
375
25 Headphones
10
250
25 Monitors
35
875
25 Keyboards
10
250
$6,950
1800
1 Backup system
350
500
150
$2,800
Operating
OperatingSystems
Systems
Microsoft vs. Linux?
Either way: older
hardware means
use lighter software
Open vs. School
Licensing
Consider downgrading
your license
Office Applications
Fit to hardware
Consider Office 97
Consider OpenOffice
Courseware
Look for managed, network
software even if it costs more
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
ClassWorks
Accelerated Reader
Courseware
Consider classic educational
products like: LOGO that
are freely available and
have an active community
for support.
Consider inexpensive older
product versions available online
or shareware to complement
your courseware.
Cost checkup
Software
25 DeepFreeze WS License
15
375
25 CD-Rom Emulator
12
300
25 Norton Ghost
15
375
FREE
FREE
70
1750
25 OpenOffice
25 Microsoft Windows
(Open Licenses)
Software Total:
$2,800
Summing it up
There may not be a perfect lab. But with the right
expertise and planning it is possible to set-up a lowcost, low-maintenance computer lab. Using fit
clients rather than high end systems saves both money
and time and reduces the total cost of ownership.
Questions?
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