Yerkes Laptops

This is the subpage is an inventory of all Yerkes laptops. The numbers of laptops of a particular type are indicated in brackets.

2012 Macbook Air

Formerly Adam's

• OS Catalina
• 4GB Ram
• 128GB HDD

(2017*) Modern HP [1]

Specifications:

• Model: HP Envy m6-aq105dx
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 10 Home 1909
• CPU: i7-7500U @2.7GHz
• RAM: 16GB
• HDD: 1TB
• Camera

(2012) Large Silver HP [9]

Specifications:

• Model: HP ProBook 4540s (64-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 10
  • Linux Mint Cinnamon 18
• CPU: Intel Core i5-3230M @2.60 GHz
• RAM: 4 GB
• Hard Drive: 500 GB
• Camera

(2011) Smaller Black HP [7]

Specifications:

• Model: HP ProBook 6460B (64-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 10
  • Linux Mint Cinnamon 18
  • Ubuntu
• CPU: Intel Core i5 @2.5 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB
• Hard Drive: 500 GB
• *2 of these 7 laptops have a 300 Hard Drive*
• (Yerkes Student 102 and 105)

(Early 2015) MacBook Air 13" [6]

Specifications:

• Model: MacBook Air 13-Inch (64-bit)
• OS Installed: OS X (Big Sur, Catalina, High Sierra)
• CPU: Intel Core i5 @1.6 GHz
• RAM: 4 GB
• Hard Drive: 128 GB
• Camera

Notes

• One macbook air has 8GB or RAM

(2013) Small Asus Transformer Book [1]

Specifications:

• Model: Asus T100T (64-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 8.1
• CPU: Intel Atom @1.33 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 64 GB
• Camera

(2009) Black Dell Laptop [7]

Specifications:

• Model: Dell Latitude 6500 (64-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 7
  • Ubuntu
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @2.53 GHz
• RAM: 4 GB
• Hard Drive: 250 GB

(2009) Black Dell Laptop [1]

Specifications:

• *Looks identical to laptop above but is slightly slower*
• Model: Dell Latitude 5500 (64-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows xp (unknown login)
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @2.53 GHz
• RAM: 2 GB
• Hard Drive: 160 GB

(2010) Black HP Laptop [3]

Specifications:

• Model: HP ProBook 4520s (32-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core i3 @2.52GHz
• RAM: 2GB
• Hard Drive: 320GB

(2003?) Old Silver Toshibas [6]

Specifications:

• Model: Toshiba ? (32-bit)
• OS Installed:
  • Ubuntu 13.4
• CPU: Pentium @1.6 GHz
• RAM: 512 MB
• Hard Drive: 40 GB

Programs to Install

Windows Programs To Install on Laptops:

• Browsing:
  • Chrome with AdBlock
  • Firefox with AdBlock
• Programming:
  • Anaconda
  • Arduino
• Image Processing:
  • SAOImage DS9 7.2
  • AstroImageProcessor
  • Makali'i Subaru Image Processor (must register)
  • HOU *What is the actual name?
  • SalsaJ (Need Plugins)
  • ImageJ (Need Plugins)
  • GIMP (Need Plugins)
  • Aperture Photometry Tool
  • Astrometrica (must register)
• Astronomy:
  • Stellarium
• Maintenance:
  • Malwarebytes
• Other:
  • Blender
  • Java 64-bit
  • Microsoft Office
  • Inkscape

Linux Programs To Install On Laptops:

• Browsing:
  • Chrome with AdBlock
  • Firefox with AdBlock
• Programming:
  • Arduino
  • Python Libraries:
    • iPython
    • Scipy
    • Pygame
    • Matplotlib
    • Imaging-tk
• Image Processing:
  • SAOImage DS9
  • SalsaJ and ImageJ (may not be needed in 2020)
  • GIMP
• Astronomy
  • Stellarium
• Other
  • Inkscape
  • gedit (atom or dscode may be better if they are also simple to use)