Notebook rental (for training purposes)

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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

Check notebook availability with our Service Desk, afterwards place a request via form (Nr. 34 Notebookantrag, can be found here).
Collection and return need to be arranged with the computing centre.

Service hours

Collection and return during normal office hours of the Service Desk (mon-fri, 9 am to 5 pm)
Use of the training notebooks for a maximum of 3 weeks at present, no time restriction within such a period.

Technical Details

Currently, 29 Dell Latitude E5550 (Dell 2015) units and 20 Dell Latitude E5520 (Dell 2020) 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 2015

The Dell 2015 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
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

no DVD/CD drive

The devices have access to the eduroam WLAN network. DHCP is also activated for LAN, so a LAN connection should also be possible in many places. However, it is also possible to enter a fixed IP address.

Software equipment Dell 2015

The Dell 2015 notebooks come standard with the following software:

Windows 10 Education german 64 Bit
MS Office 2016 Professional Plus german
LibreOffice

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
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 local administrator rights.

Hardware Dell 2020

The Dell 2020 notebooks have the following features:

Processor: Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 16 GB
Display: 15,6''(39,6 cm) FHD, 1920x1080 Non-Touch Anti-Glare LCD
Grafics card: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics
Hard drive: 512 GB SSD
Network cards: Ethernet 802.3 und WLAN 802.3
Interfaces: HDMI, 2 x USB-C, 2 x USB 2.0, combined microphone / headphones / speaker output, SD card slot, connection for docking station
no DVD/CD drive

Software equipment Dell 2020

The Dell 2020 notebooks come standard with the following software:

Windows 10 Education german 64 Bit
MS Office 2016 Professional Plus german
LibreOffice

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
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 local administrator rights.

Own software requests and installation

The user has local 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.