<strong>Your Name:</strong> Zhang Zhang

<strong>Today’s Date:</strong> 2010/01/18

<strong>Day(s) worked or described:</strong> T F

<strong>Total hours for week:</strong> 6

<strong>The School:</strong> Ray School

<strong>Kind of Work:</strong> Tech general

<strong>Main Report or Narrative:</strong>

As Max mentioned in his post, we would like to be able to get some more computers with the new money set aside, since who knows when more money will be allocated after that. The official vendors are terribly overpriced, costing in at between two to four times the price of the hardware, more than $1000 for a Core 2 Duo Dell Optiplex. Another problem is that these three choices, though modern, are overkill for every possible thing students will be doing for at least the next five years. They probably won't be needing 2GB of ram and 300GB hard disks.

It would be absolutely great if the school could work out a way to purchase machines directly from a manufacturer, instead of through overcharging vendors...

Other than that, I've been going through getting slow computers cleaned up, and reinstalling windows on computers that won't boot at all (possible sign of failing HD). We are running low on wireless cards, and many teachers may need them in the future for their projector carts. It would be useful to check if a pci wireless card is installed whenever computers are disposed years into the future.