Hi,
I do some voluntary work for a non-profit organisation (not a charity by the way) and they've asked me to choose a couple of computers for them.
In some respects it should be easy as they have no special requirements - just web, email and office use will be required, so no high-spec graphics cards or CPUs or anything like that. On the other hand they do have specific requirements to use Windows 10 as well as MS Office as that is what their people are familiar with and for compatibility with existing documents etc. Linux and any of the free office suites are specifically off bounds for this, alas.
I'm thinking of small box, low priced PCs complete with monitor and keyboards/mice etc and I looked on PC World which always used to be my goto place but their selection is completely uninspiring.
Can anyone tell me a good supplier for low cost PCs ? Reliability must be good but price is definitely a big issue too.
Also, are there any discount schemes from MS for not-for-profit organisations ? It's not a charity remember... Office and Windows are a significant expenditure so if they could be ordered as a discounted extra at the same time that would be good.
If the end user was me then I woiuld just wait for a discount on HP Gen 8 servers to arise, but those don't come with monitors or keyboards or OSs or disks so not really appropriate and not all that cheap when you've specced them up a bit...
Many thanks,
Boo
I do some voluntary work for a non-profit organisation (not a charity by the way) and they've asked me to choose a couple of computers for them.
In some respects it should be easy as they have no special requirements - just web, email and office use will be required, so no high-spec graphics cards or CPUs or anything like that. On the other hand they do have specific requirements to use Windows 10 as well as MS Office as that is what their people are familiar with and for compatibility with existing documents etc. Linux and any of the free office suites are specifically off bounds for this, alas.
I'm thinking of small box, low priced PCs complete with monitor and keyboards/mice etc and I looked on PC World which always used to be my goto place but their selection is completely uninspiring.
Can anyone tell me a good supplier for low cost PCs ? Reliability must be good but price is definitely a big issue too.
Also, are there any discount schemes from MS for not-for-profit organisations ? It's not a charity remember... Office and Windows are a significant expenditure so if they could be ordered as a discounted extra at the same time that would be good.
If the end user was me then I woiuld just wait for a discount on HP Gen 8 servers to arise, but those don't come with monitors or keyboards or OSs or disks so not really appropriate and not all that cheap when you've specced them up a bit...
Many thanks,
Boo
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