IT Equipment wishlist

• replace all of the old printers in sector: four in student rooms.

The HP P3005x is about the same price as the Lexmark with equivalent specs- it's the smallest HP serious workgroup printer (the next one down only has 32Mb ram which isn't enough) and HP is a known quantity so I'd buy that rather than Lexmark. 440 plus vat for the DTN model. We'd want extra RAM which puts the price up.

Alternatively move eclipse to a student room and buy a p2015x (230 plus VAT) for 375 plus three workgroup machines.

• new backup server with greater capacity (8Tb pedestal) 3.5K inc VAT

• replace all CRT monitors with 19" flat screens. There are 12 CRTs in student/postdoc/visitor rooms. Basic 19" Iiyama is 155ukp inc VAT so 1860ukp
• replace dodgy chairs
• replace some of the older workstations (basic model 450, performance model 900)

• file server (2x decent machines, about 6K)

We have 35 32-bit machines and 25 64-bit. Machines most in need of replacement are:

• • Visitor machines, generally the oldest hardware we have (bari, ortega, saemdo, tantive, tea)
  • Sprik group (wine, seer, honey, vinegar). Also JC is using a visitor machine and could do with his own.
  • Hansen group (sarasota, discovery)
  • radiant (Alston)
  • SCA group (scree, sevenof9, lodestar)
  • Wales group (dougal, muse, dredd)
  • MV group (merlot, summa)
  • Other groups (bistromath, giant)

• laptop for loaning out to students for conferences (last time this was officially the COs' laptop but in practice was used as a loaner) 1K.