It doesn't let me access unproductive stuff at school, so i doubt it would at work

The VPN or the DNS-over-HTTPS? Both are designed to let you bypass the blockers not letting you do whatever you want on a restricted network. The encrypted DNS but wouldn't stop some kinds of network based IDS and restrictions. That's where VPNs and proxies come in, they can get past the restrictions which is why company networks often try to block them.

DNS

VPN works fine, you just can't connect

so i could login and connect on mobile data, then switch to school, but i don't bother as their internet is slower than my phone

They use Fortiguard, something like that, it's not just a DNS based thing i think

Not to mention they tried to make us use CAD on computers with i3s and 4gb of ram...

Then the teacher acts all surprised when no one can save without crashing the program

Could have been atom

They are 1st gen i3s too

Yeah atom is infinitly worse

at least the old ones

I used to use an atom netbook, it made Pentium 4 look fast by comparison

Atom n270...

Where did they even get 1st gen Intel computers? Also, Atom isn't completely terrible, I set my mom up with an Atom laptop about 8 years ago with an SSD and 8GB of RAM. For her at the time it was powerful enough to read emails when she couldn't use her desktop when my dad was asleep or to do some shopping while in the living room. Now days thou I'd never recommend an Atom over even a low end AMD CPU.

They've been there since before i was a freshman (senior now)

So i guess they bought them when they were new and never upgraded

Although they have been upgrading most of them to SSD at least, which is smart

The atom i had couldn't even run half life 1, but it did at least do 360p youtube

Are they attempting to run them with Windows 10? Also, the SSD is proablly the only reason they are still simi usable.

Windows 10, yep

There is even a Pentium D windows XP pc as well, but its just for running some legacy yearbook program i think

Doesnt help at all that they have 2 antiviruses and 3 remote monitoring clients at once

Yeah, about 6 years ago, after I graduated from High school, I helped upgrade my high schools ancient student laptops with SSDs and install Windows 10 on them. It took forever to install Windows 10 on them. They also had me install SSDs and Windows 10 on some desktops that were origionally XP.

They upgraded to 10 (from 7) at the last moment pretty much before they had to pay for extended support

My brother actually uses a q9550 with 8gb of ram, an ssd, and its actually really fast

SSDs do wonders

I'm currently using a 3570 with a 64gb sandisk u110 boot ssd, and a Sun Oracle F40 400GB for storage

Terrible thing was, at the time the student desktop in the Middle School office was still running XP despite it not having support for a few years at that point. It couldn't even load some modern websites at the time correctly because Chrome stopped supporting XP.

Dang, at least our school was smart enough to keep the XP machine off the network entirely

Wost part, this was a private school

The F40 is a pretty interesting SSD, its basicly a 4X SAS HBA with 4 100GB ssds on board

Serriously? thats a shame

Why would anyone even bother designing that with as cheap as NAND is now days

Its from 2012 AFAIK

I got it ludicrously cheap on ebay, they are being dumped as obsolete server hardware

I do back it up though, seeing as its 8 years old

It gets average random speeds, but the sequential is really good unless you compare it to NVME

I have a 64 GB SSD for about 2008/9 still being used as the boot drive for one of my VM cluster nodes. The VM's are all served over the network so it's only for booting the lightweight Linux OS but I needed a drive for it and I had it laying around. I couldn't even make myself use an old HDD for that when I had an SSD.

A lot of those older SSDs likely use SLC or MLC, and will last a very long time

This one uses eMLC, which is mlc that trades 15% less write speed for 3x longer lifespan