On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 06:25:18 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
If you shop around re-cycling centres, then over time, you may be able to buy 3 x broken laptops for less than a total of $100 and be able to build one good laptop that matches the sort of specs described in this article.
Good idea. Have you thought of offering such a service for those of us who are not so ... hardwarily skilled? :)
This configuration involves high costs in initial classroom re-fit and wiring installation, high cost of initial IT hardware, high power consumption to run the lab, and (in theory) the high cost of the proprietary operating system and software products.
You can guess the reason for this: all the software they know is Windows-based. Surely they would be using a lot of web-based stuff by now? In which case, the OS running on the client machine should matter less.