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MacBook Pro 13-inch Apple CHIP M2 (2022)

MacBook Pro 13-inch with M2 Apple chip has become the standard laptop in Computer Science, ISG, and Mathematics departments

Specifications

  • Processor: Apple M2 chip with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU
  • Memory: 8GB unified memory
  • Storage: 512GB SSD storage
  • Graphics: 16-core Neural Engine
  • Power Supply: UK Power
  • Keyboard & Documentation: Backlit Keyboard – British
  • Accessories: Accessory Kit used for UK, Ireland
  • Colour: Silver
  • macOS Ventura 13
    4-Year Warranty
    • 1 Year Apple Care
    • 3 Years via supplier

For more information, please visit the Apple Macbook Pro page.

Size and Weight

Height: 1.56 cm (0.61 inches)

Width: 30.41 cm (11.97 inches)

Depth: 21.24 cm (8.36 inches)

Weight: 1.4 kg (3.0 pounds)3

Ports

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

  • Charging
  • DisplayPort
  • Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
  • USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

Latitude 7440 Laptop (2023)

Processor

13th Gen Intel Core i7-1365U vPro (12 MB cache, 10 cores, up to 5.2 GHz
Turbo)

Operating System

Windows 11 Pro, English, Dutch, French, German, Italian

Memory

16 GB, LPDDR5, 4800 MT/s, integrated

Storage

512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive, Class 35

LCD

Laptop 14.0″ FHD+ (1920×1200) AG, No-Touch, IPS, 250 nits, FHD IR
Cam+IP, WWAN, Aluminum

Wi-Fi

Intel Wi-Fi 6E (6 where 6E unavailable) AX211 + Bluetooth

Ports and slots

1. Universal audio jack

2. 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, one with Power Share

3. Wedge-shaped lock slot

4. HDMI 2.0

5. 2x Thunderbolt™4.0 with Power Delivery & DisplayPort 1.4

PalmRest

Palmrest, Fingerprint Reader, Contacted SmartCard Reader, Carbon Fiber, Thunderbolt™ 4

Camera

FHD/IR Camera with ExpressSign-In + Intelligent Privacy, Temporal Noise
Reduction, Camera Shutter, Mic

Primary Battery

3 Cell, 57 Wh, ExpressCharge™, ExpressCharge™ Boost capable

Service

4Y Basic Onsite Service

Extended Service

4Yr Accidental Damage Protection

Charger

65W AC adapter, USB Type-C, TCO Gen9 compliant

HP Elite Mini 800 G9 Desktop

  • Windows 11 Pro 64 Downgrade Win 10 Pro 64
  • Intel Core i7 13700T (up to 4.9 GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, 30 MB L3 cache, 16 cores, 24 threads)[
  • 16 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (1 x 16 GB) 
  • 512 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
  • Intel® UHD Graphics 770
  • Intel AX211 Wi-Fi 6E 160 MHz Bluetooth 5.3 WW WLAN
  • Type-C USB 3.1 Gen2 Port with 100W PD from Display v2
  • Included: HP 655 Wireless Keyboard and mouse combo

Display

Dell 24 Monitor – P2423D

Diagonal Size23.8″ – Native Resolution QHD 2560 x 1440 at 60 Hz – Pixel Pitch0.2058 mm

Connectivity

  • DisplayPort 1.2 (HDCP 1.4)
  • HDMI (HDCP 1.4)
  • USB 3.2 Gen 1 upstream
  • 4 x USB 3.2 Gen 1 downstream

Latitude 7430 Laptop (2022)

Processor

12th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1265U (10 Core, 12 MB Cache, 12 Threads, up to 4.80
GHz)

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro 64bit, English, Dutch, French, German, Italian

4267 MHz LPDDR4x Memory

16 GB, Non-ECC, Integrated

Hard Drive

M.2 512GB PCIe NVMe Class 35 Solid State Drive

Wireless

Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6E AX211 2×2 802.11ax 160MHz + Bluetooth 5.2

LCD

Laptop 14.0″ FHD (1920×1080) AG, Non-Touch, WVA, 250nits, FHD IR Camera + Intelligent Privacy, WLAN, WWAN, Carbon Fiber

PalmRest

Palmrest, Fingerprint Reader, Contacted SmartCard Reader, Carbon Fiber, Thunderbolt™ 4

Camera

FHD/IR Camera with ExpressSign-In + Intelligent Privacy,
Temporal Noise Reduction, Camera Shutter, Mic

Primary Battery

58WHR, 4 Cell Battery Express Charge Capable

Service

4Y Basic Onsite Service

Extended Service

4Yr Accidental Damage Protection

Charger

65W Type-C Adapter

MacBook Pro 13-inch Apple CHIP M2

MacBook Pro 13-inch and Apple chip M2 has become the standard laptop in Computer Science, ISG, and Mathematics departments

Specifications

  • Processor: Apple M2 chip with 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU
  • Memory: 8GB unified memory
  • Storage: 512GB SSD storage
  • Graphics: 16-core Neural Engine
  • Power Supply: UK Power
  • Keyboard & Documentation: Backlit Keyboard – British
  • Accessories: Accessory Kit used for UK, Ireland
  • Colour: Space Grey
  • macOS 12.5.1
    4-Year Warranty
    • 1 Year Apple Care
    • 3 Years via supplier

For more information, please visit the Apple Macbook Pro page.

Size and Weight

Height: 1.56 cm (0.61 inches)

Width: 30.41 cm (11.97 inches)

Depth: 21.24 cm (8.36 inches)

Weight: 1.4 kg (3.0 pounds)3

Ports

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

  • Charging
  • DisplayPort
  • Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
  • USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

Latitude 7420 Laptop (2021)

Latitude 14 7420

Processor

11th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 (4 Core, 12M cache, base 3.0GHz, up to 4.8GHz, vPro)

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro 64bit, English, Dutch, French, German, Italian

4267 MHz LPDDR4x Memory

16 GB, Non-ECC, Integrated

Hard Drive

M.2 512GB PCIe NVMe Class 35 Solid State Drive

Wireless

Intel® Wi-Fi 6 AX201 2×2 802.11ax 160MHz + Bluetooth 5.1 Wireless Card

LCD

Laptop 14.0″ FHD (1920×1080) AG, Non-Touch, WVA, 250 nits, FHD IR Camera+Mic, WLAN, CF

PalmRest

Palmrest, Fingerprint Reader, Contacted SmartCard Reader, Carbon Fiber, Thunderbolt™ 4

Primary Battery

4 Cell 63Whr ExpressChargeTM Capable Battery

Service

4Y Basic Onsite Service

Extended Service

4Yr Accidental Damage Protection

MacBook Pro 13-inch Apple CHIP M1

MacBook Pro 13-inch and Apple chip M1 has become the standard laptop within Computer Science, ISG, and Mathematics.

Specifications

  • Processor: Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU and 8-core GPU
  • Memory: 8GB unified memory
  • Storage: 512GB SSD storage
  • Graphics: 16-core Neural Engine
  • Power Supply: UK Power
  • Keyboard & Documentation: Backlit Keyboard – British
  • Accessories: Accessory Kit used for UK, Ireland
  • Colour: Space Grey
  • macOS 11.5
    4-Year Warranty
    • 1 Year Apple Care
    • 3 Years via supplier

For more information, please visit the Apple Macbook Pro page.

Size and Weight

Height: 1.56 cm (0.61 inches)

Width: 30.41 cm (11.97 inches)

Depth: 21.24 cm (8.36 inches)

Weight: 1.4 kg (3.0 pounds)3

Ports

Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports with support for:

  • Charging
  • DisplayPort
  • Thunderbolt 3 (up to 40Gb/s)
  • USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)

IY5606 VPN client for Mac users

If your client VPN ( OpenVPN) does not work on your MAC, you can install the 30 days trial version of Viscosity.

https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/download/

After the installation, you can use our OpenVPN configuration file to activate the VPN
( https://cim.rhul.ac.uk/files/2020/10/RHUL-ISG-SecTest.ovpn )

https://www.sparklabs.com/support/kb/article/getting-started-with-viscosity-mac/#installing-running-viscosity

It is available for older versions of the OS as well.

OS X 10.9Viscosity 1.7.11
OS X 10.10Viscosity 1.7.14
OS X 10.11Viscosity 1.8.4
macOS 10.12Viscosity 1.8.6


MacOS — How to — 1st setup

Every MacBook or iMac bought by RHUL and delivered directly to the end-user needs to install the following software:

In addition, based on Department requirements, each user can install:

No-machine enterprise client

Mathlab

Matematica

* If the macOS has been updated to Catalina or Mojave 10.15 there is a special workaround for the VPN

Microsoft Office 365:

Open your internet browser and login in the RHUL email:
http://mail.rhul.ac.uk/
Click on the icon on the top left corner ( App Launcher )
and click on the Office 365 –>  link
Then you can follow the instruction after clicking on the Install Office button.
Use your RHUL email to get the license for it.

 

CIM VPN ( macOS up to  10.14)

Log in at our VPN portal:
My CIM
Download the Cisco Anyconnect client
The address to connect to is:
my.cim.rhul.ac.uk

Username and password as your RHUL account

Workaround for MacOs After 10.14

Install brew ( brew.sh/ )
past this command in macOS terminal

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

then

brew update
brew install openconnect

When the installation is complete you can run this in a terminal window

sudo openconnect my.cim.rhul.ac.uk

If you want a GUI for the openconnect, it is available here
openconnect.github.io/openconnect-gui/  but since the developer has not registered with Apple the first time the software starts it immediately stops.
You have to go into Security and privacy options and confirm to open the application anyway. Then open the application again make a new profile for our VPN with the address my.cim.rhul.ac.uk and your RHUL username

CIM TEAM

SGX-Server KVM-QEMU

Special configuration for SGX server and virtualization environment

The system build is based on the suggested guide available here:

SGX VIRT

(VM creation)

The system allows creating VM using virt-manager

The XML file that defines the basic VM has to be edited

The following example shows the commands and values of the file.

VM creation: uuidgen
qemu-img create -f qcow2 testvm.qcow2 20G

edit the XML (testvm.xml)[edit]

<-- <domain type='kvm'>
--> <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
<-- <emulator>/usr/local/bin/qemu</emulator>
--> <emulator>/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>

virsh define testvm.xml

<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value='-cpu'/>
<qemu:arg value='host,+sgx,+sgxlc'/>
<qemu:arg value='-object'/>
<qemu:arg value='memory-backend-epc,id=mem1,size=16M,prealloc'/>
<qemu:arg value='-sgx-epc'/>
<qemu:arg value='id=epc1,memdev=mem1'/>
</qemu:commandline>

The value memory-backend-epc id=mem1 size=16M prealloc
sets up the EPC: you can change the value taking into account how many VMs the system needs to run.

To let the students access the VM directly via ssh, please edit the network section and choose the macvtap with bridge and e1000 driver
This will make the VMs reachable on 203 subnet and then set up a static IP for the server.

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