Windows 8 on school laptops.

[K3k0m@n]

Now I really like windows 8.
In class today, we had to type stuff on the laptops, and then a noticed the grid.
Then looking on the Microsoft website, I found a picture looking nearly exactly the same as the computer in school.
loving love it.
our school also has IPads, about 30 of them, that's really fun too.

discuss windows 8 and stuff about school

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[Raeyok]

here's something to do when you've got nothing to do:

1. get one of the iPads
2. open the Maps app
3. type in "Hoover Dam" or any other large national monument
4. turn on 3D mode
5. laugh

[Alyx Vance]

Laptops have Windows 7
Desktops have XP
School has some iPods in the library (about 30 of them)
And the teachers get iPads if they help pay for them.

[Tyler66]

Our school is still using Windows XP with Windows 95 backgrounds.

Because their too cheap to upgrade the damn things.

[K3k0m@n]

here's something to do when you've got nothing to do:

1. get one of the iPads
2. open the Maps app
3. type in "Hoover Dam" or any other large national monument
4. turn on 3D mode
5. laugh

/teachers

Laptops have Windows 7
Desktops have XP
School has some iPods in the library (about 30 of them)
And the teachers get iPads if they help pay for them.

Our teachers get ipads for free (not kidding, i heard a staff meeting but i think its because they have worked for a long time or something.

[Port]

Our school is still using Windows XP with Windows 95 backgrounds.

Because their too cheap to upgrade the damn things.

My previous school used Windows XP with the entire system theme forced to Basic (as used in Windows 95).
They also had this dumb system that redownloaded and reconfigured literally every single thing about your account from a government server every time you logged on which took 10+ minutes.

[Alyx Vance]

/teachers
Our teachers get ipads for free (not kidding, i heard a staff meeting but i think its because they have worked for a long time or something.

My school doesn't really let anyone get anything free other than lunch if you are eligible to get it such as myself. And you get your laptop free if your parents don't have enough income to buy it for the year.

[Port]

My school doesn't really let anyone get anything free other than lunch if you are eligible to get it such as myself. And you get your laptop free if your parents don't have enough income to buy it for the year.

Since when is it a school's responsibility to purchase laptops for students?

[Kumquat]

Ours havr windows 7
but no Windows 7 features.

[Alyx Vance]

Since when is it a school's responsibility to purchase laptops for students?

I never said it was?

[Pacnet2012³]

In my school we have Windows XP but next year the staff will upgrade it all to 7 (Maybe 8?)

The thing about our computer system is that you have your student ID and a network password which you use to log on to the computer (just like a user account, but network based).

If you have overdue library books, your network account is suspended, therefore not allowing you to use school computers, till you return it.
And Windows 8 is great as long as you install the third party Start Menu + Orb and use the Desktop tile.

[Regulith]

last time I checked my high school had computers from 2005 running XP

OP must have some insane school funding

[ShadowYoshi294]

My school uses Macintosh laptops(soon to change into desktops, but still Macs).

[beachbum111111]

My school uses Potatoes

[Pacnet2012³]

My school uses Potatoes

Potato OS is pretty good..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUktRbAO34