We bought ours with grant money that stipulated they have internet access (the ELF Child Safe Browser). Since they had to be hooked up to the network I installed my AntiVirus software on the base installation, but I’m not sure that it really helps since everything is done in a VM. As far as time management we just have librarians watching over them. Using PC Reservation on one of these would not be fun, especially if restarting is used. From power on to being able to use it you are looking at a 10-15 minute time frame.
Thanks,
Scott James, IT Specialist
Sheppard Memorial Library
530 Evans Street
Greenville, NC 27858
Office: 252.329.4879 | Mobile: 252.481.3215 | Fax: 252.329.4309
From: Library NT [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gretchen Garcia - LIBRARY
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 1:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Early literacy stations
Our youth coordinator is planning on getting the All-in-one units. I wonder if the newer models are more base heavy? Seeing some of these reports where the monitors go out is somewhat troubling but it seems that warranty support is pretty good?
These things apparently are running windows and someone else mentioned VMWare – what do you guys do for maintenance on these? Does anyone have these set up with some sort of PC reservation system or does it have a built in timer? In other words, how do you keep a couple of kids from hogging it? :)
From: Scala, Lino [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:01 AM
To: Gretchen Garcia - LIBRARY
Subject: [LIBNT-L] Early literacy stations
We have about 16 in place and getting ready to order 25 more,
Good: stations are pre-configured and ready to go with no IT intervention, warranty covers the whole unit so if something goes wrong you send it back, no network required so you can install them in places where Ethernet is not available, overall staff and patrons like the product.
Bad: price is fairly high, getting warranty work is time consuming, all in one units used to have stability issues meaning the little kids would press hard on screen they would sometime knock the unit down…. Got couple screen busted because of it, I seem to recall some issues with sound port and head phones getting messed up but warranty work fixed it
Feel free to ask more questions
Lino Scala
Technical Analyst
Information Technology
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
310 North Tryon Charlotte, NC 28202
Voice 704-416-0405
Fax 704-416- 8045