Notes on Purchasing Laptops

For Minecraft Education and STEM Coding, 10+ Laptops are needed for the students to use. They don’t need to be fast.

Preferred Specs:

15" Screen. Making sure everyone can easily see it and drag code blocks around.
8GB of Memory. This helps older laptops run faster and I’ve found that Laptops with 8GB are generally better quality ie not the budget/cheap ones when they were originally purchased.
Windows 10 or better.

New Laptops:

Connect to WIFI
If this is a fresh Install - enter Windows Email Login - But we need to turn off Adverts etc.
Install all Updates - If it’s been off for a while, this may take many hours and require rebooting to force updates to install.
Remove all Apps not required - As these are older laptops, need to keep things quick.
Unlink One Drive - Don’t download my files, also speeds up background processing.
Install Minecraft ?
Install Minecraft Education - https://education.minecraft.net
- Open EXE downloaded. Next, Next, Next. Add Desktop Shortcut.
- Watch for software installs behind the scenes. And Approve.