Calling ICT/computer suppliers

[spud989]

The school I work for needs to replace its computers over the next few months/to two years, but needs to spread the cost as part of a rolling programme.

Things are chugging under Windows 10 and we need some upgrades. What we need is below - feel free to get in touch if you can supply a good discount on a decent number of machines (say, 50 in the first batch, but we'll need 150 ish altogether):

decent ish i3/i5 cpu
8gb RAM (essential)
small ish tower/housing
120gb SSD (essential)
DVDRW

We already have a Windows/Office site licenses, etc.

[Australiam]

PM Sent.

[Cyberprog]

For that sort of QTY you should speak to a dell account rep - they may even have special education pricing.

[TwistingMyMelon]

Personally I would look at an i7 chip, definitely not i3 they are really getting on a bit

When you up the spec on machines the weakest component becomes the bottleneck.

Ive used Tier1 as a supplier of reconditioned machines in past, they provided HP, i7, SSD, 16GB Ram , Windows10pro for under £500 a unit

[akirk]

absolutely speak direct to Dell, they do huge educational discounts

[Gr44]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Personally I would look at an i7 chip, definitely not i3 they are really getting on a bit

I'm not sure without requirements it's possible to gauge which CPU would be most suitable.

Also, i3 / i5 / i7 has nothing to do with the chips 'age'. Intel are releasing new i3's all the time, same with i5 / i7. Suspect you'll find some of the new i3's are better than some of the oldest i5's.

Op, I would also contact Dell - they're often good with bulk orders

[Hewbie2015]

we can do a smart lease type product spread the cost!

www.systeemgroup.com

[spud989]

Just to let people know, I'm waiting on the head/the trust for this - there are various meetings going on at the minute regarding finances/the trust structure. It is a priority to buy, it's just getting the approval.