Re: Looking for advice/mac lab upgrade
Nancy Jentzsch (jentzsch@csn.net)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 17:51:04 EST
>I currently have a mac lab of 13 lcIIs, 2 lcIIIs, 1 lc475, 1 mac IIsi and 1
>PPC 6100/60 AV. Replacing the LCIIs is not a reality for next year even
>though the 40mg drives are maxed out and the 4mgs of RAM keeps me at system
>7.1. I believe that I could replace the hard drives with 240 mg drives and
>boost the RAM to 8mg for approximately $200 per machine. Then once I
>replace those machines the following year, they will go into classrooms
>where the increased RAM and hard drive space will not be wasted. Does this
>sound like a good option? What problems might I have with installing and
>running the 240 mg hard drives? Is this a good use of money? I need more
>room for new software and I don't think that networking it would be
>efficient. All the computers and a laserwriter are phonenet connected.
>More RAM and hard drive space would also be valuable for eventual Internet
>access.
My experience this past month is that you will find it difficult to get
drives that small, probably have to go with larger drives. That aside, our
experience has been that increasing the RAM to at least 4 Megs and putting
in larger drives is relatively easy and very much worth the expense. As you
noted the increased space and RAM keep them current enough to work for us
in our schools.
Nancy Jentzsch
jentzsch@lynx.csn.net
District Technology Resource Teacher
Pueblo School District No. 60
Pueblo, Colorado