2014 LAN party

My coworker took this picture of a computer cart that she had to image. Some reason the network was bogged down so we had to set up a separate network to image them. When I got the picture, it instantly reminded me of a good ol' fashioned LAN party in complete disarray.

It just brought a smile to my face, maybe because I didn't have to set up (or tear it down.)

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Those systems look like they'd totally be capable of running...well, Terraria, at least. Although I hear some of the newer Thinkpads are surprisingly hefty gaming-wise, considering the all-business exterior.

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They are Lenovo Thinkpad X120e. Our school system bought like 15 carts of 32 computers. They are good for schools except the keyboards die in them and they cost like $100. Other than that, it seems good with 4gb of RAM and 300 gb HDD.

I recently saw a friend playing a somewhat recent space RTS (don't remember which) on an X230. It also ran Godus just fine, if you want to play that.

Recent Intel integrated graphics (HD 4000 and onwards) are considerably capable of handling video-games (especially old ones). I saw some benchmarks that put the Macbook Pro's Intel Iris Pro chip just below a dedicated Nvidia GT640 graphics chip. Apparently the Iris Pro 5200 is able to handle even games like Bioshock Infinite and Arkham City at very high settings with steady frames.

If I could put those laptops to LAN use, I'd either throw a TF2 or UT2K4 party. You could probably run those games at max/really high settings. EDIT: Oh wait, x120. You could still probably UT2K4 just fine.

And this is why I'd rather work in a 19th century coal mine than with IT. Oh, you pictured yourself in the engineering room of the Enterprise? Nope. Here's a hundred old computers made of poo for you to image... and no space to do it, by the way. And here's a phone so we can call you about every small issue we have every 10 minutes, making your work even more fun.

You should, like, stack those thinkpads ontop of each other and save space =/