[tech] [committee] New clubroom machine and graphics card

[James French]

On 29 July 2010 00:10, Anil Sharma <maset at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure quad-cores are still unnecessary for UCC's desktop machines

For the price difference, you may as well buy the better CPU so I
don't really have any qualms there. That said, I would like to see at
least some of the money from this come from member donations and more
specifically, the people who are going to use this machine the most
(ie gamers who want the grunt).

In the past when we've bought machines brand new we've sought to get
up to half the purchase price as member donations. Examples off the
top of my head are Manbo's memory (Club paid some, Linux Australia
some and members some), Martello and the last iMac. Basically,
anything that reduces the cost to the club's relatively small finances
is a good thing.

I know this was planned regardless, but we don't have the insurance
money yet so lets not count on it being there until it's sitting in
our bank account.

My 2c

F. (Starting to sound more and more old guard by the day)