Setting up a kiddie machine

[Simcfc73]

Hi,

 

We (well the smt) have decided to go for laptops in the library for junior pupils so I have purchased a lovely Stone N109 to see how I can use them on my system. As they have a touchscreen I will be using the godawful W7 and try and lock it down.

 

Has anyone purchased similar notebooks for junior kids with touchscreens? When I started the notebook it has a program called blue dolphin on it which looks interesting, much much better than the start menu.

 

I am also a bit concerned with completely reinstalling W7 enterprise and losing this interesting stuff (stone didn't send me a driver disc)... suppose I should image it and just try it

[Simcfc73]

After a bit of reading it looks like its a rebranded classmate laptop. I have tried installing W7 from scratch but I am getting errors about the hard drive even though it sees it... might try XP on it.. i like XP

[Simcfc73]

Okay so Stone gave me a link to their FTP site where I got all the drivers from... it wouldn't install from a USB so had to buy a external DVD drive.. XP wouldn't take at all so I am stuck with W7.

 

All seems fine except for the Hard Drive Protection utility, it won't let me calibrate it and it seems that is linked to the acceleratometer which is linked to the autorotate for the table screen

 

Has anyone got this working on W7 ultimate? It came with the bog standard W7 but it wouldn't let me upgrade to ultimate.

 

I am quite impressed with it so far although the screen takes some pressing to get it working... thank god for the warranty.

[compo]

We got one shipped from Stone without the software installed. They gave me access to the ftp site where its stored and i downloaded it. Be warned - its 2.15Gb.

 

You really need some of the intel stuff to make the tablet fully functional.

 

i think its great - cant stop playing with it.

[Simcfc73]

We got one shipped from Stone without the software installed. They gave me access to the ftp site where its stored and i downloaded it. Be warned - its 2.15Gb.

 

You really need some of the intel stuff to make the tablet fully functional.

 

i think its great - cant stop playing with it.

 

Can you remember what software runs the screen buttons? I can't get them to work and I have installed everything on it? Also, have you set it up on a domain... I seem to have an issue when I have 2 accounts as the auto rotate only works for the first person who logs on.

[compo]

We intend to use them as W7 Starter devices and not connect them to a domain. RM sell them as CC4 stations with W7 professional so they should support roaming profiles and sit on a domain. I would question performance if W7 pro or above was on it - Atom and all that.

 

The drivers were in the N109 folder. we havent had to load any drivers as we havent reimaged it. The Intel software i was thinking about is the note taker.

 

We're thinking about making it a 1:1 device so each kid gets their own and they access teh college network via a browser session to the VLE.

 

N.

[Simcfc73]

Just ordered another 19 machines so need to get my head round how I am going to use them on my network... I fancy leaving them off the domain but the pain in the arse about having kids log onto their home drive and the internet means I will probably just create a really small GP for them and do some filtering so only thsoe machines get them.

 

Not sure how the nice dolphin desktop will work with domain users either.

[Simcfc73]

I've managed to get XP on them now so I am a little happier with their setup.. all the utilities are working also... only thing thats not is the LAN driver.

 

I think these will be fast enough with XP... just going to tighten up the policies a bit to make them fly.