jbreality

Thanks everyone for all of the advice ... much appreciated. It sounds like the best plan is to upgrade the RAM and get some 250GB SSD installed - now just to convince the technician and company that we get ICT support through! Will also look into graphics cards so we can run some of the software that seems to be failing at the moment. We do save to network servers but 250GB would give us a bit more leeway. Budget wise we have allocated up to £13000 to redo the suite, less than we used last time to do it but it sounds like we will have enough to do those changes. My only slight issue would be I don't know how long it will be until we get some money again to redo it so needs to last a good few years. Thanks again all.

Hi, Our current ICT suite needs upgrading but we don't have a great deal of money. The current set up is: 31 x Dell Optiplex 390 O/S: Windows 7 (64bit) Processor: PROCESSOR, I5-2400, 3.1, 4C, SNB, D2, L HDD: 250GB HDD RAM: 1x DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 4G, 1333, 512X64, 8, 240, 2RX8 Graphics: Intel GMA HD Graphics 2000/3000 I have been recommended that we need (by my technician - bit of a blocker I think the phrase is) As a minimum, I think you would need the following 250GB SSD 8GB DDR3 or higher RAM 6th Generation Intel I3 orI5 processor ( as this is compatible with Windows 7 and works with Windows 10). Anything less will result in poor performance issues and 7th generation processors and above are for Windows 10 only) 1GB or above dedicated graphics card would be advisable, but if not just the onboard should suffice. I must confess I am not overly technical so just wanted some advice as let's just say the recommendations I have had in the past haven't always been too accurate. We use them for the primary curriculum including some Mbots, 3d printing, scratch, kodu, Cospace software (really struggles), general word processing, 2Simple stuff, Microsoft office. We are also still running windows 7 as our technician says that the current hardware won't run windows 10 - most teacher laptops are i5 processors with SSD drives and 8gb ram and bought within the last few years. Any advice would be great - spoke to some of your guys at BETT along with ICT direct and thought I would see if anyone is able to offer some impartial advice. Thanks in advance, JB