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Five computers for a Cafe

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I am working on a business with a friend. We need a total of five computers for a cafe, just your typical web browsing, youtube, myspace, etc. What five computers with or without monitors are good? I was looking at the Asus EEE PCs with acer monitors. What is your input for a computer and monitor?

Thanks,
Mark
 
Mark,


You will want to make sure that you can get the best bang for your buck, obviously. Make sure that you do not purchase any PC's that have third party graphics cards. Since the computers you need will only be used for standard stuff, you can easily get away with on-board sound and graphics. I suggest you take a look at AM2 AMD systems, as they are very affordable. If not those, shuttle and Atom systems are a great buy as well.


Kind Regards,

Joseph Mundy
joseph.mundy@avadirect.com
 
I'd consider systems with onboard graphics chips and some ebay 17 inch LCDs.

We have ACER boxes in our office and they seem to be pretty sturdy little deals.
eMachines might also be a good choice.
Dell might be able to set you up with some refurbs as well.
 
What OS do you plan on running on them?

Anyway I'd keep an eye out on Dell and watch for the random deals. Should be able to get a machine with vista home, 20 inch lcd, etc for 400 bucks. With this setup you have a full machine with the desktop and monitors all warrantied through a single vendor. Something messes up and you have the replacement part the next day.

Anyway if you are going to run windows look at steadystate. It is free from MS and is setup for public machines. Might save you from buying something like deep freeze.
 
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Currently I'm the manager of a small internet cafe that is attached to our other business up here and I have setup 5 vostro 200's. They do just fine for browsing and what not and have the room to upgrade if we ever get into a gaming center :)

And they fold nicely when not in use :)
 
im not sure what budget you have to work with. microcenter for example has dell optiplexs with windows xp pro on there for around 100.00 bucks. i might suggest linux also but with so few people famliar with that os they might not know how to navigate that os as well as people in charge of those computers not famliar with the command lines for linux
 
i would go with the new eee pc all in one, less cables which will look clean.
 
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