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Recommendations for Computers

Personal Purchases

Education/Discount Pricing

Visit the Dell Store at http://itd.utc.edu/dell for 12% discount. This is for personal purchases only, UTC departments needing to order computers go to UTC Hardware.

Visit the Apple Store at http://www.apple.com/education/ for educational pricing. ITD recommends purchasing the Apple Care's 3 year warranty.

Minimum Recommendations:

PC Laptops: Intel Centrino Duo Processor (1.8ghz) or Mobile AMD Sempron (1.8ghz), 2 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, 8x CD/DVD (DVD +/-RW), Wireless (802.11g, prefer 802.11 a/g), 3yr warranty, Windows Vista and Office 2007*

PC Desktops: Intel Pentium (1.8ghz) or AMD Athlon 64, 2 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, 16x CD/DVD (DVD +/-RW), 3yr warranty, 17" Flat Panel monitor, Windows Vista and Office 2007 Pro*

MacBook: Intel core 2 Duo (2.4Ghz), 2GB memory, SuperDrive (DVD+/-RW/CD-RW), built in wireless, Apple protection plan, OS 10.5 and Office 2008*

iMac: Intel Core 2 Duo (2.4Ghz), 1 GB memory, 160 GB hard drive, Combo drive (SuperDrive recommended), built in wireless, Apple protection plan, OS 10.5 and Office 2008*
Visit Crucial.com to purchase extra memory.

*Office 2007 and Office 2008 can be purchased at a discount rate see Software

Other Recommendations

USB Flash Drive, 1GB