If you are going with PC or Mac or hybrid platform, I highly suggest using DeepFreeze. Essentially, whatever changes are made to the system will get completely wiped out on a reboot. It makes managing a large group of lab machines so much easier. Especially when dealing with a bunch of kids who want nothing more than to cause as much trouble as they can.
As far as the platform of choice, being a Mac person, I recommend going with a dual boot iMac environment running BootPicker. It gives the user an option to choosing XP/Vista or OS X when they start the machine. You can still use DeepFreeze and you can manage the deployment using Deploy Studio. There's a bunch of good information over at www.bombich.com.
How to Speed Up Your PC
I posted this a few days ago about how to speed up a PC. Many times, spyware and malware are to blame but there could also be registry errors as well. Its a start.
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If you are going with PC or Mac or hybrid platform, I highly suggest using DeepFreeze. Essentially, whatever changes are made to the system will get completely wiped out on a reboot. It makes managing a large group of lab machines so much easier. Especially when dealing with a bunch of kids who want nothing more than to cause as much trouble as they can. As far as the platform of choice, being a Mac person, I recommend going with a dual boot iMac environment running BootPicker. It gives the user an option to choosing XP/Vista or OS X when they start the machine. You can still use DeepFreeze and you can manage the deployment using Deploy Studio. There's a bunch of good information over at www.bombich.com.
How to Speed Up Your PC I posted this a few days ago about how to speed up a PC. Many times, spyware and malware are to blame but there could also be registry errors as well. Its a start.