We have some people put games on our student public drive on the school network as well. Right now last I knew Project 64 was still on there under a folder called "neat stuff", lol. But there's a ton of people in one of my classes that is addicted to it now. The guy that sits next to me has to constantly be on Super Mario 64, he gets pissed off big time if he has to stop playing... A little too addicted are we? My other computer class teacher doesn't mind if we play games after we are done with work, and there was also Age of Empires 2 on the server that we would play networked. I'm sure there's been other games, I'm just not big on playing games. AOE2 is fun, but gets boring if played too often.
The newest systems in my school have AMD dual cores 3.0GHz, 2GB RAM. They are pretty quick, seems like 5 seconds from log in screen to desktop and icons loaded... Ones that were new last year have AMD dual cores 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM. Not quite as quick, kinda laggy sometimes, but then they are used by lots of people who don't really care about them. I think the oldest systems at my school have 2.8GHz P4's with 512MB ram and are just secondary systems now in classrooms and don't get used much. Most of those got replaced by the AMD 3GHz systems. Last year they got rid of all the 1GHz systems I think. My school only buys HP stuff. Can't complain, they are decent. Much better than if they got Dell crap.