Recommendation for small footprint workstation

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genebrabston
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Recommendation for small footprint workstation

Post by genebrabston » Mon Jul 11, 2016 6:35 am

We have six year old large box desktop workstations in our operatories and would like to replace them with small footprint boxes. Any recommendations?

Thx,

Gene

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Ryan
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Re: Recommendation for small footprint workstation

Post by Ryan » Tue Jul 12, 2016 1:45 pm

There are many new small form factor pcs that should work very well. My personal opinion is to make sure to find something that runs a newer version of windows, my preference is Windows 10. Looking for a "bare-bones" or "mini-pc" should give you plenty of ideas to sort through. More personal preferences are 4 GB+ of ram, and maybe a core i5 or i7 processor, and an SSD if you really want your program to scream. Again these are just my personal preferences official requirements can be found http://opendental.com/manual/computerrequirements.html
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Rickliftig
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Re: Recommendation for small footprint workstation

Post by Rickliftig » Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:13 am

One consideration - do you need to feed two monitors or have multiple usb outlets? For this reason, I equip our office with off- lease Dell Optiplexes which I purchase on ebay. A Dell 960 sff Optiplex with approprite hd and memory runs less than $150. For the price of a new computer, I can purchase several of these and pre-configure them; then, if there are any failures, I can merely swap them out.

The client computers are trivial - however, my server is a new (1 yr old) encrypted drive Dell. No skimping allowed there.

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Re: Recommendation for small footprint workstation

Post by enamelrod » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:23 pm

this is about as small as your going to get and still be able to connect it to everything you need
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ ... rview.html

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