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Used for: 6–12 months
Never missed a beat
Only the one drive fitted
Quick, silent, and it has never missed a beat
Used for: Less than a month
Dull and dependable, which is the point
You supply the operating system yourself
Small firm, reception desk, and it had to be dull and dependable rather than clever. It is both, and nobody has noticed it since the day it was plugged in
Used for: Less than a month
Replaced an ageing tower that took 4 minutes to become usable in the morning. This one is ready before the second screen has woken up, and the difference that makes to a working day is out of all proportion to what it cost!
Used for: 3–6 months
No software to strip out before starting
The front ports face the ceiling
Came with no operating system, which is exactly what was wanted, and everything else about it has been quietly excellent
Used for: More than a year
Two years of five days a week and the only downtime I have had has been the updates it schedules itself. Same install, same drives, no dust in the vents worth speaking of, and it still comes up in the time it takes to get a coat off
Used for: Less than a month
Bare box, own licence, up and running in under an hour
Used for: Less than a month
Every device recognised at the first try
Front ports live on the top face, under the mug
Turned up well packed with nothing rattling, and the first thing to say is that there is no operating system, which is in the listing but easy to skim past. Once my licence was in, the whole thing took under 40 minutes: every device recognised, both screens live at the first try, and the network card found the domain without a driver hunt. Marked down one only because the front ports are on the top face, which is where a mug goes on a busy desk.
Used for: 3–6 months
Asks nothing of you
No wireless card fitted as standard
Does everything asked of it and asks nothing back
Used for: 3–6 months
Quiet enough for a room full of phone calls
1TB fills up faster than an office expects
Bought for a bookkeeping practice where the four of us need the same machine to behave the same way, and it does. Boots in about 15 seconds, holds a dozen tabs and two spreadsheets without a thought, and it is quiet enough to sit on a desk in a room where people are on the phone!
Used for: 1–3 months
Two virtual machines and a full browser without a pause
One 1TB drive is not enough for images and backups
The 128GB is why this one was chosen over a cheaper tower, and it has already justified itself. I run a couple of virtual machines alongside the usual browser and mail, and there has not been one moment where anything has had to be shut down to make room. The processor is not the newest but it has never once been the thing I am waiting for. Six weeks in, two criticisms. The single 1TB drive is not enough once images and backups are on it, and the internal layout is built around the assumption that somebody in a van will be opening it, so the drive caddies are tool free and everything else needs the manual. For what it does every day, four stars is generous rather than grudging.