[tech] [committee] Purchase of 2 New Machines

[James Andrewartha]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Mitchell Pomery wrote:

> I'd prefer to avoid SSD's as Operating system disks for the time being. On 
> the windows machines the disk will be nowhere near large enough for 
> profiles, and I would like both machines to be able to have the same 
> specs. That said, assuming we can get one at around the $100 mark.

Here's a 480GB SSD for $A175 plus shipping: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019WARKRE/

I strongly advocate for an SSD, it will make logging in much quicker and 
using the machines nicer in general.

"Silicon Power’s Slim S55 SSD has a surprisingly great performance and did 
not let us down in any of our benchmarks."

http://www.eteknix.com/silicon-power-slim-s55-240gb-solid-state-drive-review/9/

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