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Rental of notebooks to university members for use in training

Range of service

Operation of a pool of notebooks for rental to university members for training purposes. This also includes the operation and maintenance of a mechanism to reset the notebook after a loan process. Maintenance and updating of the pool of training notebooks.

Availability

• Clarification of notebook availability via web query (in german), afterwards place a request via a Form of the computing centre (in german).
  Subsequently, the notebook has to be picked up and returned by arrangement with the computing centre.

Service hours

• Collection and return during normal office hours
• Use of the training notebooks for a maximum of 3 weeks at present, in such a period no time limit

Technical Details

Currently, 25 Dell Latitude E6510 (Dell 2010) and 29 Dell Latitude E5550 units are available for rent. It is intended to continuously renew the training notebook pool as far as the financial framework conditions allow.

Hardware Dell 2010

The older notebooks have the following features:

• Processor:            Intel Core i5, 2 x 2,4 GHz
• RAM:                    4 GB
• Display:                15,4'' HD+, 1600x900
• Graphics card:      Intel GMA HD
• Hard drive:            250 GB SSD
• DVD/CD drive:      CD-RW, DVD+/-RW
• Network cards:     Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi
• Interfaces:             VGA, DisplayPort (DVI adapter included), 4 x USB 2.0, eSATA, headphones / speaker output, microphone input, ExpressCard Slot, PC Card Slot (PCMCIA), IEEE 1394, SD Card Slot, Smartcard Slot, connector for docking station

The devices have fixed internet addresses for the LAN network card, so that it is not necessary to reconfigure the devices when connecting them to an institute network. However, the configurations of the network routers on campus have to be adjusted accordingly by the computing centre. Therefore, it is necessary to inform the computing centre about the planned location of the laptops when renting them. This information is requested in the application form.

The Wi-Fi adapters receive the IP address via a DHCP query, so that normally no adjustment is necessary there.

Software equipment Dell 2010

The following software is standard on 2010 Dell notebooks:

• Windows 10 Education german 64 Bit
• MS Office 2016 Professional Plus german,
• LibreOffice,
• MS Visual Studio 2005
• Ubuntu 14.04 in a Windows virtual machine

Further software and useful tools were installed on the operating systems (or were already part of the standard scope of supply) such as in particular

• Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader,
• GSview and Ghostscript,
• Web browser: Firefox, Opera,
• ssh, (graphical) ftp-Clients
• Audio and video playback software (VLC player)

You can install additional software that you are authorized to use: when using the computing centre rental notebooks, you have administrator rights.

Hardware Dell 2015

The newer notebooks have the following features:

• Processor:            Intel Core i5-5300U, 2 x 2,3 GHz
• RAM:                    8 GB
• Display:                15,6''(39,6 cm) FHD, 1920x1080 Non-Touch Anti-Glare LCD
• Graphics card:      Intel HD Graphics 5500
• Hard drive:            256 GB SSD
• NO DVD/CD drive
• Network cards:     Gigabit Ethernet and Wi-Fi (802.11ac/a/b/g/n 2x2 + Bluetooth 4.0 LE)
• Interfaces:             VGA, HDMI, 3 x USB 3.0, combined microphone / headphones / speaker output, SD card slot, connection for docking station

The devices have fixed internet addresses for the LAN network card, so that it is not necessary to reconfigure the devices when connecting them to an institute network. However, the configurations of the network routers on campus have to be adjusted accordingly by the computing centre. Therefore, it is necessary to inform the computing centre about the planned location of the laptops when renting them. This information is requested in the application form.

The Wi-Fi adapters receive the IP address via a DHCP query, so that normally no adjustment is necessary there.

Software equipment Dell 2015

The 2015 Dell notebooks come standard with the following software:

• Windows 10 Education german 64 Bit
• MS Office 2016 Professional Plus german,
• LibreOffice
• MS Visual Studio 2005
• Ubuntu 14.04 in a Windows virtual machine

Further software and useful tools were installed on the operating systems (or were already part of the standard scope of supply) such as in particular

• Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader ,
• GSview and Ghostscript,
• Web browser: Firefox, Opera,
• ssh, (graphical) ftp-Clients
• Audio and video playback software (VLC player)

You can install additional software that you are authorized to use: when using the computing centre rental notebooks, you have administrator rights.

Own software requests and installation

The borrower has administrator/root rights on the notebooks in the operating systems. Own software installations or adjustments are therefore possible. After the loan and return of the notebooks, a clone procedure is used to restore the notebooks to their original configuration.

If you consider it desirable to include software in the central basic configuration, please forward a corresponding proposal to the computing centre (pcsupport@rz.uni-kiel.de). If the software is not free of charge, you can of course apply to the university for the desired software if there is sufficient demand and the expected workload is sufficient. For a number of programs there are also so-called classroom licenses, the price of which is often considerably lower than that of research licenses.

Contact

For questions and problems please contact oper@rz.uni-kiel.de

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) of the computing centre

• Further frequently asked questions (in german)

Responsible

This list of responsible service supervisor is generated automatically.