JRowley

Documentation is how I fill my time if I have some spare, though ultimately this is just another job that happens to be one that can be put aside when other jobs come in. Running out of jobs really isn't a thing in my view, you should always be able to find something to do even if it's just research!

I think you made the right decision, the difficulty with buying a gaming pc over a period of time is that technology will have moved on by the time you get around to finishing it, so you will find some parts of your pc are somewhat behind others, then your replacement strategy becomes an issue. Plus with the recent release of DDR4 ram you could find yourself in a position where you may have bought a motherboard that doesn't support DDR4, but find yourself wanting DDR4 in the future. Which would mean a new motherboard. So it's a bit of an awkward time to start a staggered build.

Yeah I really wouldn't recommend the method I investigated, it sort of works but that's as far as it goes, users would find it frustrating due to how sluggish it is. I was curious more than anything else when I tested it, as you say Windows 10 should improve on this so it's probably worth waiting and investigating it again at a later date.

My advice would be to get a console and start saving for a gaming pc at a later date, otherwise you wont have anything for another year or more.

First thing you will want to do is login to your personal onedrive through Internet Explorer, you must select 'Keep me Signed In' for this to work (despite this you must still access the web version for it to kick off authentication every session). Copy the address, it should be laid out in the following format: https://-my.sharepoint.com/personal//Documents/Forms/All.aspx Then start the "Add a Network Location" wizard from explorer. You will want to choose a custom network location, it will then ask you for an address which should be in the following format: \\-my.sharepoint.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot\personal\\Documents Worth noting that the email address has underscores in place of '@'s and '.'s. All being well (and if the planets have aligned correctly) you can then name the network location and navigate it using explorer. If something isn't correct it will tell you that the folder isn't valid or that you don't have permission. This is as far as I got with it, I didn't get as far as powershell to try automating it mainly due to the IE limitation, though you may be able to get around that using powershell. Overall the performance is what you would expect, slow and sluggish, workable if you are extremely patient I suppose.

And bad optimisation, and buggy code. Minecraft is awful in that sense.

It really depends on what the game entails, the i3 isn't very good with physics, that is its main downfall compared to the i5 and i7 chips. Here is a benchmark that compares various intel chips from August, it's clear which games are GPU locked rather than CPU locked and it shows that while the i3 is close in most games there are some games that are heavily CPU locked and it more or less falls apart (Crysis 3). The Tech Buyer's Guru - The Best Gaming CPUs - Pentium vs. Core i3, i5, and i7

An i3 really isn't suitable for gaming, you might get away with it for some games which aren't CPU heavy, but there are an awful lot of games which are very dependant on the CPU, so regardless of the GPU you put in it you won't get decent performance. And lets not forget this is meant to be a gaming PC, you should have a midrange i5 as an absolute minimum.

At home I have a gaming mat, but nothing at work. I thought people stopped using them when we switched to optical mice, though depending on the surface I suppose you might still need one.

Working here on a virtual machine, though that's not really a true test. It is probably a bug with that build more than a change to Windows 10.

Personally we have an excel document which we keep updated, that is enhanced by information pulled from SCCM through queries.

They stated in the unveil that the consumer end features would be added in Q1 2015, so I would expect there is still a lot to come. I would like to see them add the ability to set the default search to use Google rather than Bing, similar to IE allows you to add search providers, should be exactly the same.

Right, which is fair enough, just the topic is about specifically IWBs becoming obsolete, so I think we both agree that is the case as you have switched to UST touch interactive projectors.

Price currently, like I said the prices are falling and will continue to fall. At which point there will be basically no argument. Though you are not comparing an IWB against a touch screen, you are comparing a Drywipe board with an interactive projector, which is completely different.

I would expect that as the prices fall on touch screen LCD panels that you will see the physical component of an interactive whiteboard just stop being sold, it will be very difficult to justify the requirement for it soon. I'm sure the software will still be there, and perhaps the likes of Smart will just focus on selling their own touch screen LCD panels (infact looking at Smart just now they have started to push a 4k touch screen). I can't personally think of a reason to choose an IWB + projector instead of a touch screen.

Recently rolled this out across the school to about 500 devices, not had an issue like you are describing on any of them. Our biggest issue was with Oracle not supporting it.

I presume that can be turned off using the options they added in a previous build regarding search/task icons.

Probably the most short sighted decision Mclaren have made in a long time. Very disappointed in them doing this again.

I fitted it using the special HDMI alignment device on my giant swiss army knife - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wenger-Giant-Swiss-Army-Knife/dp/B000R0JDSI

I would expect that most of our development plans share certain points, the likes of backbone, wireless and virtualisation are likely on the plan, it's just how far along the plan you are. It's the other things such as BYOD, tablets, cloud services where you will find a bigger difference, and that really comes down to the needs of the curriculum you are teaching, or how IT focused your school is from a management/staff point of view.

Ah my apologies, well by all means buy the most blingtastic TV you can reasonably afford

Depending on your budget this might be suitable? Samsung UE40HU6900 40-inch 4K Ultra HD Smart WIFI LED TV with Freeview HD and Freesat HD: Amazon.co.uk: TV http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/tv-audio-video/televisions/flat-tvs/UE40HU6900UXXU It's not the most feature rich TV as it doesn't have 3D of any form, the refresh rate claims "200", so expect it to be 100Hz. Anyway thought I would let you know about it, consider it a budget alternative.

Do you actually want 3D? It's becoming less and less popular, personally I would just focus on getting a decent panel and use the money saved on something else.

4K is certainly viable on current internet connectivity and physical media, I'm just saying that 8K isn't. A lot of people have been harping on about 8K being just around the corner in this thread, and in all aspects except the physical panel it is no way near being ready, and the likelihood is that to facilitate 8K as a format you would see a new physical media created to get it into peoples homes sooner, rather than waiting for countries to upgrade infrastructure, which takes a long time whichever way you look at it. To be frank it wouldn't take BT OpenReach very long to dramatically increase our internet speed if they dropped their obsession with copper. If they just bit the bullet and installed fibre to the house everywhere then we would see the effects significantly quicker, and it would probably cost less in the long run too.

Considering the bandwidth required to stream 8K, which we were discussing, is between 250Mbps and 500Mbps depending on compression, yes I think the near future is larger optical discs, until such time that we get our hands on 500Mbps or 1Gbps internet connections. Which, given the progress BT OpenReach has made in getting us from 2Mbps to 20Mbps should be in approximately 30-50 years time. And you imply that Blu Ray hasn't had a warm reception, but it still shifts around 500 million discs a year.