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How to set up your device for use at St Peter's College

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BYOD Minimum and Recommended Specifications

Setting Up At School Setting Up At Home

You should have your computer set up for use before doing this setup.

I.E.: You should be able to use Youtube at home, Play games, Browse the internet

Info

Your school username and email are in the following two formats:

Warning

What will work at school:

  • A laptop running Windows 10 or 11 64bit with 5ghz Wifi support
  • A Mac laptop running Windows 10 or 11 64bit via BootCamp with 5ghz Wifi support
  • A Mac laptop running MacOs 10.15 or greater with 5ghz Wifi support

What wont work:

  • ChromeBooks
  • A Mac with running a Virtual Windows in Parallels or VmWare
  • iPads
  • Android Tablets
  • A laptop that does not support 5ghz Wifi

Laptop BYOD requirements

Windows

Minimum requirements

  • Operating System - Windows 10 or Windows 11, Home or Pro (No Windows 'S', Windows 'X' or non-officially released versions of Windows)
  • Screen size - 10" minimum
  • Keyboard - physical keyboard
  • Hard Drive - 128 GB Solid State
  • RAM - 8 GB of RAM
  • Wireless - AN or AC wireless (5GHz)
  • Operating System - Windows 10 or Windows 11, Home or Pro (No Windows 'S', Windows 'X' or non-officially released versions of Windows)
  • Screen size - 11" or greater
  • Keyboard - physical keyboard
  • Hard Drive - 256 GB or greater Solid State
  • Wireless - AN or AC wireless (5GHz)
  • RAM - 8 GB or 16 GB of RAM
  • Intel based 'i' series processor (i3, i5, i7) or AMD Ryzen 5 or 7

Mac

Minimum requirements

  • MacOS version 11.6 or greater
  • Hard Drive - 128 GB Solid State
  • Wireless - AN or AC wireless (5GHz)
  • RAM - 8 GB of RAM
Last update: 2023-01-18