[Nico]

Well, not really uni, but their computers. Here I am, waiting for a computer to be free ( half of them dead, other half used by people who chat. What are you talking about? I'm not chatting ), and all that to get a P60 with 64mb ram and all those PC are all connected on a single 56K.
Well, all that is my guess, of course ( save for the ram, I saw it on the last reboot I had to do ), but it really feels like what I said.
So, is it the same everywhere, or am I the only one who feels like I'm back to stonage when I use a uni computer?

[aldo_14]

Pretty much, yes.  I did most of my uni project on a P3 600Mhz or something.........

[Fineus]

Hurrah for mine then, and their state of the art 3GHz machines. At least that's what the rendering suites have. The whole lot are connected via T3 or something though.

My gripe being the bill that just came through my door for the broken ceiling tile in our flats hallway. Did I have anything to do with it? No. Why then am I paying for its replacement? Bastards...

[Styxx]

At my university (just getting back to it - officially starting a masters course this week), the labs are generally very well equipped. I don't know the specs for the computers on the undergraduate labs, but on the postgraduate labs they're fairly good. Not top of the line, but nothing to complain about. And on the CG group lab (where I'll be working), all of them have damn good video cards.

There's also the sponsored labs, where each room is sponsored by a different computer company. On those, the computers are all top of the line, provided by IBM, Dell, Sun, etc. And it's a federal public university too, so no one has to pay a cent for it - you just have to be good enough to qualify.

So no, it's not the same everywhere.

[Mongoose]

Bringing your own machine with you means you don't have to worry about what the school has to offer (although, to the best of my knowledge, my school's labs are pretty top-of-the-line). I do have to say that I'm enjoying my dorm's Ethernet connection, though.

[vyper]

In the computing faculty at GCU we have lovely P4 machines. 6 open access labs of them to be precise with roughly 22 machines per lab. Sadly only one of the labs is air-con.

Regardless it's still usually murder to get access during coursework time.

Of course, I'm not mentioning the mockup living room with X-Box/PS2 and observation room. Or the Games Lab with about every current console there is with authoring software to match...

[adwight]

The uni I visit sometimes has state of the art computers, just in the halls of the student center.  It's quite cool actually.

[delta_7890]

I'm not sure what our computers are like.  I just use my own.  I can't imagine it being any other way.

[Scorpius]

Either way I cant really complain about the computers here.  They are all 3.2ghz with 512mb RAM.  But my laptop can run circles around any machine here.  

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Pretty much, yes.  I did most of my uni project on a P3 600Mhz or something.........

I should point out, when I graduated last July they were in the process of upgrading the labs.  Bloody typical.... same happened at my secondary school, too; the year after I left they opened a ginormous new gym & extension thing.

[Bobboau]

exact same thing happened with me at my grade school...

anyway, my humble comunity collage has a nice variety of 3ghz gateways each hooked into a good looking LCD monitor, we have a few plasma screen HDTVs throughout the buildings, two of wich are reserved for people hanging out and waching TV, or in the one room were they have an xbox, ps2, and gamecube hooked into one of the 52 inch widescreen HDTVs.

this is odd given how I am going to a comunity collage, there usualy quite cheap (well this one is to get into, I don't know how the hell there getting funding for all this crap)

[Taristin]

My College had p4 2.8's with 512 ram...  still slow as crap though.

[kode]

fairly new solaris TCs with big seksi flatscreens.

and some half-old IBM-compatibles that we sometimes use. they're gonna get upgraded soon, though.

[Nico]

Totally unfair.
There you go: I've tried to post a couple messages before, but no: after a clean reboot, damn piece of crap would run out of memory with JUST internet explorer running ( well, sort of, there's a ****lot of scripts being run when NT starts, and a couple error messages as well, of course )! And it then wouldn't allow me to post, clicking would not do anything. On top of that, it takes hours to type anything since any character will take about a second to appear on screen.
Well, another computer has just been freed, and, altho it has even more error messages, and the slow typing pb thing, it doesn't seem to run out of ram...
Bringing my laptop would be of little help, since I can't connect to the local network wich would still be slow as hell anyway.
On a final, funny note, I've been in the computer room for 31 minutes, w/o any wait to get a computer since it's friday morning, but this is the first message I managed to post.
This is simply outrageous. When I think the computers I had at my lycée were better, and it was 6 years ago...

[icespeed]

haha, our computers are great. i only ever use the internet on the uni computers. they rock muchly.

... heh. yeah.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I'm sitting at a 2.4GHz P4 at the mo. I should be doing radiology research but I haven't been here in ages so I figure a few posts can't hurt.

I bought myself a P3 800MHz Thinkpad before starting year 2 here. It's very handy for typing up work but I've no net access at my flat other than a very rare borrowed connection.

Oh well, back to the grind I guess.
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[Flipside]

The only thing the computers do better at work is connect to the Internet, because we have a Local Government connection, which is some kind of ridiculous speed, well, for the UK anyway.
My home computers'll kick their arses at anything else

[Taristin]

Well, I gues I have a unique situation, then. My PC at home is better than almost every other PC I've ever used, and the home internet service we have rivals the most expensive types. but then, Cablevision is super rich, and has the 'most advanced fibre-optic network in the country' (according to them.) Blazing fast, though.

[FireCrack]

Well, i'l be in uni next september, wish me luck on computers there.

Though i'm bringng my own PC so it's a moot point.