Who next year with a course in Media, information and communication at the HvA, you must have a laptop buy. Firewire is mandatory, as is an extra battery, because of the lack of power. Also an external 250GB drive is required.
The new requirements to be announced in an e-mail to students. Who on a degree course in Media, information and communication, wants to start, have to invest heavily in a laptop. Because of all of the requirements cost of a suitable laptop soon 800 euro. Together with all the required software licenses is a freshman at least 1100 euros on top of the tuition fees and the cost for textbooks. Previously, students were pcs of school to use for programs like Photoshop, Premiere, and ISPSS to use, but by now students should themselves make sure of that.
A ‘laptopverplichting’ in-service training is no exception, but the Amsterdam University of applied sciences puts strong requirements on the specifications. A laptop for a freshman as cpu a Core i3, i5 or i7 on-board, or an AMD Athlon II or Phenom. The laptop needs a minimum of 4GB of internal memory and at least 320GB disk space, with a rotation speed of 7200rpm is recommended. The wi-fi chip should be the new n-standard support.
The screen must have a resolution of at least 1280×900 pixels; screen diagonal is not given. Panels with the said resolution be not produced. On the graphics card are very little requirements. More striking is the requirement for firewire; the laptop must have a firewire port on board. This standard is little future proof; firewire seems to be supplanted by usb 3.0 and thunderbolt. The firewire requirement makes the number of laptops which can be chosen considerably less. Because an Apple laptop is not recommended, remain virtually the only business laptops from HP and Dell.
In addition, the student is ordered to an additional battery, because there are too few connections to the electrical mains in the building of the school. Also have an extra usb drive of at least 250GB to be purchased. In the propaedeutic year is Windows 7 required; remarkably enough this is to the British version. Laptops Uk Windows 7-version in combination with the above mentioned requirements as far as is known in the Netherlands not to purchase.
In addition to the freshmen about Office Professional Plus 2010, as well as Adobe CS5 Design Premium. With student discount they cost together about 125 euro. If the virus scanner must Security Essentials or Avira use; antivirus of Norton or McAfee is prohibited.
The requirements for second-, third – and fourth-year differences per your graduation specialisation. In some cases a less-performing laptop. Also may vervolgjaren with other configurations, for example, a Mac laptop, be worked; probably to existing students to compensate. Fourth-year do not need new laptop to buy if they already have one. In the vervolgjaren is an extra battery in addition is not always required.
The training tried in the past, even though a laptopverplichting, but after protest decided the university to refrain from. According to the HvA, students can discount laptops buy Surfspot.nl but many of the laptops do not meet the requirements of the college. The HvA was not reachable for comment.
Update, 17:01: According to spokeswoman Suzanne Okkes of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam is not so that students who do not have a laptop that meets the minimum requirements, to be sent home. “You can read it as an urgent advice,” said Okkes. “You make it very difficult for yourself if there are certain things you have not.” The mail is, according to Okkes something ‘more urgent prepared’ than intended.
“We have pretty high used, but we hope that the laptops that students buy now just four years,” said Okkes. Firewire would be needed to images from video cameras of the University. According to Okkes is also decided not to have any extra power to build and an extra battery to advise. “For the sake of sustainability, we have committed decided to not to the entire building full of power to place,” said Okkes.