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Students are very happy with the quality and quantity of computing resources at Stanford. The network is reasonably fast, and there are many well-maintained labs. Students generally recommend bringing your own computer—in particular, a laptop. However, if you don’t bring one, you’ll still be OK. The campus is heavily wired, and there are plenty of technical people around to help if you have problems. Every dorm and house includes a staff member called the Residential Computer Consultant, who is hired to help residents keep their computers running.

Stanford’s Internet services might actually be considered a bit slow, given the Silicon Valley location and heavy emphasis on computing. There are occasional outages, and sometimes bandwidth is a bit scarce for connecting to the outside world. For most regular users, however, the network will be more than sufficient. It should be noted that the local area network is excellent. Most residents in the dorms are using iTunes these days, so there’s always interesting music floating around. In addition, the computer labs are state-of-the-art. There is definitely an emphasis on Mac over PC, but PCs can still be found. It is also great to have a computer cluster right in your own dorm, which you can use any time your roommate is making too much noise, your computer is having a problem, or if you don’t have your own printer. Also, Stanford’s UNIX lab is truly top-notch. For engineering classes, you will most likely work directly from Sweet Hall on the various UNIX/Linux boxes, or you can connect remotely from your own computer to use them.

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micoke

'15

Psychology

4.6

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Computers

Wireless available everywhere that I can think of, computer clusters in every dorm, relatively cheap printing. Computer labs are best used for printing. You could probably get by without a laptop but it makes life a lot easier.

Jan 09, 2012

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Computers at Stanford University

robertgfthomas

'14

North American Studies

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Computers Everywhere!

I love the Stanford computer system. Wow, what a luxury. There are Macs everywhere, on which you can also run Windows, and Adobe Creative Suite as well as many other professional applications are available on virtually all of them. The only downside is sometimes the computers will decide to update themselves at random times, during which you can't use them, and printing gets a little expensive (although the printers are really, really nice). There's WiFi all over the entire campus, and the Internet works fast. I haven't had any problems.

Dec 14, 2011

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toast144

'15

Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering

5.0

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Computers at Stanford

The computer labs are in every dorm which is helpful and you can access them whenever you want with the key to your dorm which is convenient. The computers are equipped with any software that you need for your classes. There are computers that have special software for Media classes in the libraries which are generally open until 1 oclock.

Nov 25, 2011

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