<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Chad Neeper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cneeper@level9networks.com" target="_blank">cneeper@level9networks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Amy Deuble <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeuble@marion.lib.oh.us" target="_blank">adeuble@marion.lib.oh.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for recommendations for hardware vendors. I currently use CDW-G along with a smidge of TechDepot. My director wants me to investigate alternatives to ensure we are getting the best prices.<u></u><u></u></p>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div>Some of my school clients regularly purchase computers from Dell. Over the years, I've found the computers to be reasonably priced and generally pretty well designed and reliable. I don't know if they have price discounts for public libraries, though. I would assume so.<br>
<br>One caveat to Dell applies if you want to use Solid State Drives: I build custom computers for my own library clients (Mini-ITX SFF chassis, Intel Mini-ITX MB, Intel Core i5 (or i7) 3.xGHz <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
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</font></span></blockquote></div>The point I was trying ineptly to make but didn't actually state was that, if you're interested, SSDs could be an option yet, if you can get a smaller sized drive! The performance improvement is huge over traditional drive.<br>
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