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<blockquote data-quote="Analoguesat" data-source="post: 1056924" data-attributes="member: 176362">Already planned - when our current 6 year old network kit is eventually decommissioned I shall refurbish some of that for them with win7 on it&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite57" alt=":-lmao" title="LMAO&nbsp; &nbsp; :-lmao" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-lmao" />Its simple economics for them - cast off ex network kit or nothing. We dont have the spare cash to be buying 15 or 16 new computers for the 2 rooms. To be fair apart from an occasional failed hdd and the power supply caps going in a few of them the 2020B's have been pretty good. Mainly I suspect because they are not on the internet or networked so most of the kids arent interested in using them <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> At the end of the day music room 1 got a mini suite of 10 machines for zero cost (apart from my time &amp; this sort of project is fitted in when things are quiet in the office) Ongoing maintenance costs are effectively zero as well as I just source parts from the rapidly dwindling stash of identical sister units I keep hidden away.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Analoguesat, post: 1056924, member: 176362"] Already planned - when our current 6 year old network kit is eventually decommissioned I shall refurbish some of that for them with win7 on it :-lmao Its simple economics for them - cast off ex network kit or nothing. We dont have the spare cash to be buying 15 or 16 new computers for the 2 rooms. To be fair apart from an occasional failed hdd and the power supply caps going in a few of them the 2020B's have been pretty good. Mainly I suspect because they are not on the internet or networked so most of the kids arent interested in using them :D At the end of the day music room 1 got a mini suite of 10 machines for zero cost (apart from my time & this sort of project is fitted in when things are quiet in the office) Ongoing maintenance costs are effectively zero as well as I just source parts from the rapidly dwindling stash of identical sister units I keep hidden away. [/QUOTE]

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