Some schools are just more up to date on technology than others.
My school's got windows 7 on it's computers at the main campus... last I checked the regional center I took a few classes at originally still had Vista, but the computer lab I'm in at the main campus had it's older windows 7 PCs (a mix of Dells/HPs with P4s and C2Ds) replaced with some new Lenovo machines with i5s a few weeks ago and we were told the old ones were being sent elsewhere in the system, so I assume they might have gone to the Rockbridge center... I might just drive down there and check some time.
Anyways one of my classes is literally about Windows 7 (from all the types of network/unattended installation to making and applying disk images, even to Aero and new IE8 features), so I've gotten to learn a lot about how they actually do the installs in various scenarios. For example in the lab I'm in, those were the only new computers coming in so they just had some interns (one of whom is in some of my classes) do it manually... so we had to get one of them to unfreeze a few computers so we could install the graphics drivers properly, since their main mission was getting the computer networked and all the additional software students use installed (such as the packet tracer, putty, multimedia suites, and for some reason they even put itunes and realplayer on there).
It's actually pretty chill, they don't have any sort of filter whatsoever on the internet (content-wise, or device-wise, my PSP browses fine on it) and we've got (local) admin rights on all the computers (because of course we'd need to be able to change settings and such to explore our lessons).
My school's got windows 7 on it's computers at the main campus... last I checked the regional center I took a few classes at originally still had Vista, but the computer lab I'm in at the main campus had it's older windows 7 PCs (a mix of Dells/HPs with P4s and C2Ds) replaced with some new Lenovo machines with i5s a few weeks ago and we were told the old ones were being sent elsewhere in the system, so I assume they might have gone to the Rockbridge center... I might just drive down there and check some time.
Anyways one of my classes is literally about Windows 7 (from all the types of network/unattended installation to making and applying disk images, even to Aero and new IE8 features), so I've gotten to learn a lot about how they actually do the installs in various scenarios. For example in the lab I'm in, those were the only new computers coming in so they just had some interns (one of whom is in some of my classes) do it manually... so we had to get one of them to unfreeze a few computers so we could install the graphics drivers properly, since their main mission was getting the computer networked and all the additional software students use installed (such as the packet tracer, putty, multimedia suites, and for some reason they even put itunes and realplayer on there).
It's actually pretty chill, they don't have any sort of filter whatsoever on the internet (content-wise, or device-wise, my PSP browses fine on it) and we've got (local) admin rights on all the computers (because of course we'd need to be able to change settings and such to explore our lessons).