Fazza Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 Has anybody else recieved their government allocation of Geo GeoBook E1 laptops yet? We got a van load of the the other week and so far I've been trying since lunchtime to install Office 2016 on them and it's a horrible experience! 6 Minutes to mount the ISO via my USB 3 memory stick on one of the USB 3 sockets and then it sits there for 45 minutes before crashing having not installed anything! Even double-clicking on the setup.exe icon takes between 5 and 10 minutes for it to even try and open the install program.
chazzy2501 Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 These have eMMC storage, this is the kiss of death for a windows machine. Basically windows on an SDcard. The DFE dynabooks had 4gb and a celeron but a real sata m.2 128gb SSD and they work quite well. edit: correction
Mark182 Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 We got ours last week, dreading dealing with them.
Fazza Posted October 21, 2020 Author Posted October 21, 2020 If we're doing the maths right then these are very, very, very overpriced. According to News websites they have spent £96,000,000 on 230,000 of these things which is over £417 for a 11.6" Celeron netbook type of thing!
chazzy2501 Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) This is a £130 Ali Express laptop at best. I recon at this qty they cost around £88 each. How the heck do they get away with such a poor procurement process. Edited October 21, 2020 by chazzy2501 typo
Popular Post Fazza Posted October 21, 2020 Author Popular Post Posted October 21, 2020 This is a £130 Ali Express laptop at best. I recon at this qty they cost around £88 each. How the heck do they get away with suck a poor procurement process. I believe they were supplied by a friend of the Prime Minister. 8
LeMarchand Posted October 21, 2020 Posted October 21, 2020 Is there space on the disk to copy the ISO to (and enough RAM)? Just asking as I was trying to do Office 2019 from my stick on an older machine and it wasn't having it, but it worked quite well when I copied the files to the machine.
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) Is there space on the disk to copy the ISO to (and enough RAM)? Just asking as I was trying to do Office 2019 from my stick on an older machine and it wasn't having it, but it worked quite well when I copied the files to the machine. No idea as when I tried to power it on this morning the LEDs come on but there's nothing on the screen! The asset tag I stuck on yesterday is peeling off, the security marking of our school name and postcode has started to come away and some even have missing screws - other than that, they're OK!!! *SARCASM* I was going to try via a DVD to install Office 2016 but as the laptop wont power on I cant even do that! They have 4GB of RAM which is plenty - the point is, these are BRAND NEW laptops issued to Schools from the Government (manufacturing date on the boxes is just one month ago) so you shouldnt have to treat them like they're a decommissioned 10 year old laptop! Edited October 22, 2020 by Fazza
sonofsanta Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 If we're doing the maths right then these are very, very, very overpriced. According to News websites they have spent £96,000,000 on 230,000 of these things which is over £417 for a 11.6" Celeron netbook type of thing! WHAT I've been saying that if I paid £100 each for these I'd feel ripped off. That is f!ing absurd. That is f!ing criminal. Oh my god. Everything else I want to say is in contravention of forum policies on profanity and politics. Oh my god. 1
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 WHAT I've been saying that if I paid £100 each for these I'd feel ripped off. That is f!ing absurd. That is f!ing criminal. Oh my god. Everything else I want to say is in contravention of forum policies on profanity and politics. Oh my god. Unless someone can see any other news articles saying otherwise, then £96,000,000 was the contract and 230,000 was the number procured! It's NUTS. It's not the craziest thing about them as I was just about to enable TPM so inserted a USB drive to save the key on to, I left the room to get a drink and when I returned it had an error saying it was no longer recognised, I clicked on OK and it blue screened on me and now says the USB drive is an unregognisable device!! Works on other computers fine though as I've just tested it! Not sure if I'm allowed to post a YouTube video (so Admins please edit and remove if not allowed), but one of the laptops was flashing a Windows Update message at me! Some very strange things keep happening to these laptops and I've only got 4 of them out of the boxes so far!
synaesthesia Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 If we get any here I'm dropping them off on your doorstep!
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 If we get any here I'm dropping them off on your doorstep! No you blumming wont! We've got dozens already! Currently having odd issues with USB sticks: 1st laptop it recognised it and then it didnt, blue screened on me and rebooted and then said it was an unrecognised device 2nd laptop didnt recognise it all and constantly ejected it 3rd laptop recognised it straight away and let me open it up and save files on it!
msi_school Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 I have just had my order of these changed to HP 255 G7 – AMD - A4 9125 / 15.6" - 2.3 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 128 GB SSD I would like to think they are listening to the problems but they probably just ran out.
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 I have just had my order of these changed to HP 255 G7 – AMD - A4 9125 / 15.6" - 2.3 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 128 GB SSD I would like to think they are listening to the problems but they probably just ran out. Very jealous
terrystubbs Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 We received 53 of these after spending a day trying to image them, decided to build as is and added office 365 no problems from a USB drive
Brimstone Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 Reminds me of something......? BSF (cough) 1
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 We received 53 of these after spending a day trying to image them, decided to build as is and added office 365 no problems from a USB drive Why did you not image them - did you have issues as I was thinking of going down that route as it'll be less of my time as I could just let them run overnight etc?
Aprice Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 Couldn't believe it when 104 of them turned up, So far from the LA / DFE I have had HP 250's Lenovos and these now. A member of SLT ordered them rather than myself, so I had no idea what to expect this time round. I just created a provisioning package to skip the OOBE and create a user account and called it quits. At least the kids can try and install Office on this lot unlike the Intune managed lot before. Why couldn't they buy something that would be half useful, now I just have a load of ewaste! What a waste of public money
jmak Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 Sounds like someone needs to put in an foi request to find out what's being paid pretty machine.
Aprice Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) I think that might be a job for tomorrow.... Wouldn't be surprised if something crazy was paid for them Edited October 22, 2020 by Aprice
eddyc Posted October 22, 2020 Posted October 22, 2020 I have just had my order of these changed to HP 255 G7 – AMD - A4 9125 / 15.6" - 2.3 GHz - 4 GB RAM - 128 GB SSD I would like to think they are listening to the problems but they probably just ran out. We seem to have ended up with 24 HPs and 97 of these Geobooks. I don’t get why we got a mix but the Geobooks truly are awful.
Fazza Posted October 22, 2020 Author Posted October 22, 2020 Now one of them constantly ejects a USB Drive when I plug it in (despite it working perfectly fine on another one)! *Appology To J* I dont know why I called you a Twonk in this video, it just slipped out!
Fazza Posted October 23, 2020 Author Posted October 23, 2020 I think the first problem people are going to have with these laptops *if* they give them out to Pupils/Students is that they are going to be returned saying they wont charge as the power socket and headphone sockets are exactly the same size and are in the same position on the opposite side of the laptop! I've even take then precaution of putting stickers on the bottom of the laptops to try an avoid this from happening.
LeMarchand Posted October 23, 2020 Posted October 23, 2020 I think the first problem people are going to have with these laptops *if* they give them out to Pupils/Students is that they are going to be returned saying they wont charge as the power socket and headphone sockets are exactly the same size and are in the same position on the opposite side of the laptop! We have the same problem with a bunch of Lenovos .
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