Posts Tagged ‘HP mini-note’

• Making wireless work

  Date: 2009.07.13 | Category: tech•ed 2009, wireless | Response: 4

  If you’re interested in tech•ed and have been reading the blogosphere you’ll know that every paying delegate is scoring an awesome HP Mini 2140 as a freebie! This is fantastic news for delegates and a real headache for the propeller heads behind tech•ed. We now know that we’re going to have 2500 laptops, plus delegate’s bringing their own laptops, plus wifi-enabled mobile phones, plus Microsoft staff, speakers, crew, and all of the leechers holiday-makers in Gold Coast apartments across the road to cater for as wireless users.
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• Tech•Ed09 Netbooks

  Date: 2009.07.13 | Category: tech•ed 2009, wireless | Response: 10

  So it is pretty well known that for this year Tech•Ed that paying delegates will receive a HP Mini-note 2140 for everyone to experience the Windows 7 Experience. Big shout out to Nick Hodge for his hard work in getting this over the line. But as we’re over the legal and compliance fun, its down to ensuring we give the best experience to every single person that receives a mini-note.

  

  As you can well imagine there are many factors we need to consider when we’re expecting ~2500 machines to be delivered to end users in 5 days… And this will be a main theme of quite a few posts on this blog as it presents quite a few unique challenges.

  • Wireless Network planning – a LOT of work is been done to mitigate risks around this
  • Help Desk – Providing support around these machines including DOA’s
  • Power and Charging – Ensuring these machines will be charged up enough at hand out and there are enough power points around the venue.
  • Handing Out to Delegates – People flow!
  • Imaging – how to get the image onto the machines, luckily we have Jeffa helping us here as the “Build Czar”

  This is a start to the planning we’ve made, let us know what you want to hear about. To start with, the question everyone wants to hear about.. WIRELESS!

  - jorke