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Hardware in the Labs

The Faculty provides both Mac and PC platforms, with some Macs capable of dual-booting to either OSX or Windows operating systems. Below you will find details of their basic hardware specifications and locations. Note that slight variations may occur, if you need other hardware for your assessments, they may be available for loan from the Audio Visual Centre.

• Level 2
  Room 209: Design Studio (Windows XP)
  Room 261: Digital Media Lab (Dual boot)
  Room 262: General Access Lab (Windows XP)
  Room 269: Mac Lab (Mac OSX)
• Level 3
  Room 313: Design Computing Lab (Dual boot)
  Room 3??: First year Design Studio (Windows XP)
  Room 3??: Second/Third year Design Studio (Windows XP)
• Level 4
  Room 405A: MIDEA Lab (Dual boot)
• Level 5
  Room 526: Postgraduate Lab (Windows XP)
  Room 508: Urban Design Studio (Dual boot)

Software in the Labs

A long list of diverse, and very specific, software is installed on the above computers, some of which is unique to the Mac OSX operating system. The table below is an overview of the most frequently used software, for a more detailed listing of the software available and the location of the computers that provide them, please consult this software chart PDF.

While students have 24/7 access to most labs, some labs are booked for teaching during Semester teaching weeks. Please see the following table for when labs have been booked for teaching.

Other resources

Cisco VPN
Outlook config PDF
Printers