What DELL system would you recommend for a 1 lane RMS - small store low volume? This system will provide both POS and Back-office functions. - Would like something in a USFF - small form factor. Will attached a receipt printer, laser printer and cash drawer - no Pole or scanner to start off with but must be able to accommodate them in the future.
Dan
We used Dimensions (4300), with 1/2 Gig memory for registers and 1 Gig for server. Great value for price and have had no problems so far in 6 months. If you have any pre-existing equipment be aware they have NO serial or parallel ports, only USB.
Marc Beverly's Pet Center
Oops, Make that Dimension E310's. I was looking at the old Dell in my office!
Marc
I am using the CHEAPEST $300 Dell I can find. Everything runs perfectly. Only delay is a 1-2 second delay when ending transaction while it posts to the database.
Don't waste your money on a $1000 computer. If you do anything, get a 256mb upgrade from Crucial.com.
Jason,
Is that what you tell _your_ clients too? Do you only carry the least expensive models?
Still drive that 1986 Yugo too, after all, a car is a car, right? ;-)
I AM the client. I am speaking from the business owners perspective.
For a long time I ran RMS on a 5 year old 400Mhz computer with 256mb RAM and an old 8GB hard drive. Worked perfectly. The only reason I upgraded that one was because the Net Display with video requires a little more "oomph." The Net Display worked great with still pics on that system.
Even the cheapest computers today are very capable of handling most tasks, and blow away the RMS requirements. Unless the client is doing some other heavy tasks on it (typical RMS back-office tasks do not count), there is little reason to buy a Ferrari. The Yugo gets you where you need to go.
No offense, but my advice is practical... you can't argue with that.
khopek,
u should have a look on your server, 1.5 GB is more than enough for the client, the server resources are much valuable, i guess 1 GB is enough for the POS and u should be investing more in your server Nashat
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