The C720 is the same model used at NESD, and is normally sold for $199.99.
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Acer C720-2827 Chromebook Intel Celeron 2955U (1.40GHz) 2GB Memory 16GB SSD 11.6" Chrome OS The C720 is the same model used at NESD, and is normally sold for $199.99. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314634&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS083014&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS083014-_-EMC-083014-Index-_-na-_-34314634-L04A
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I received this question via e-mail from a former tech camp high school student just before school started this year: "Mr. Weikert, my Chromebook stopped connecting to the internet one day. Every network I try to connect to says it's out of range, even when other devices, like my phone, my desktop, my iPad, etc. are connected. I talked to the computer technician at my dad's work, and he said there was a problem with the radio, and that he couldn't do anything. What should I do?" With a quick Google search I was able to find this solution which did the trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjopODVurXQ I received a message from a former student yesterday who is beginning her second year of school in computer science. She turned on her computer after settling in, and it would not go past the the Power On Self Test. This is a computer she had built as part of her senior project prior to the beginning of her senior year of high school (two years old now). The system is pretty nice: A core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB RAID 0 storage array, and a 128GB SSD boot drive. I said I would take a look if she could get the machine to me. That evening, I fired up the computer and it started perfectly. Not sure what the problem might be, I checked hardware settings, and shortly after double-clicking the C: drive, the machine froze with the message of "Not Responding" in the title bar of the C: drive. About 60 seconds later, the blue screen of death appeared, and the computer restarted itself, this time acting as it did for the student: declaring that it could not find a boot drive. This didn't look good. I removed the side panel which had a fan mounted on it. The fan did not originally come with the case, but was added after the initial build, and utilized a regular sized molex power connector which was daisy chained to the boot drive. I tried bypassing the fan, connecting the power rail directly to the boot drive and turned the power on. The computer started up, and stayed running. I checked out the pins in the molex connectors of the fan, and they were all pretty loose. The 5V+ pin in particular was pushed way back into the connector. So it was the decorative fan that was the problem! It's a little funny as I look back now because the fan was purchased after the fact, specifically to help make the computer look cool. It definitely achieved that goal, but two years later ended up being a nuisance. The connection was not great from the start, but it was never noticed, because it wasn't a problem until the computer had to travel a few times in a car for it to become loose enough to cause the boot drive to not be powered correctly. Looking back, It was probably not the best idea to purchase the least expensive fan that could be found on Amazon.com (this one was about $7.00 if I recall). Thankfully, this ended up being a fairly easy repair. This article discusses free utilities to test the speed of your drive.
View Article A staff member asked about a link to the Intermediate Unit's student software discount page.
Here's the link for IU 12's software page: http://e5.onthehub.com/WebStore/ProductsByMajorVersionList.aspx?cmi_mnuMain_child=78d793bc-b838-dd11-abb7-0030485a6b08&cmi_mnuMain=2ce0b12b-bb38-dd11-abb7-0030485a6b08&ws=43ba28cc-b3ed-db11-b8b4-0030485a6b08 You will find better selection on this one though: http://www.iu13.org/COMMUNITYREGIONANDSTATE/STATEWIDESOFTWARE/Pages/personalusesoftware.aspx The site above will redirect you to Journey Education. I would also recommend doing a Google search for the title of software you are interested in along with the words "academic discount" or "academic edition". This topic comes up a lot. I recieved this questions moments ago from a staff member. Is there a good free program that allows me to pull YouTube video off the internet and embed it into PowerPoint? Yes! Keepvid.com is a website that will let you do this. You copy the web address of the YouTube video you want, then paste the address into the long download box at the top of the page and click the download button to the right of this box (not below: that's an advertisement). Your computer may then ask you permission to run Java. Click Run, or Allow, or Yes (whatever it takes). You'll then be given options of formats to download the video. I normally choose the MP4 (max 480p) format. You should then be able to go to the Insert tab in PowerPoint and click Movie, Movie from File (PowerPoint 2007). |
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