Why replace these old computers?

• Replace before they break reduces down-time.
• It's cheap at $400/ computer that easily lasts more than 4 years (3 years of which it's under warranty).
• Improve the user's experience, especially as it relates to memory.
  • These systems have 2GB RAM, and upgrading these computer's RAM is surprising expensive: $60-80 to get to 4GB.
• Can these still-working computers be used more effectively elsewhere in Physics? Who to ask? (Mark/ Vince? Nick? Others?)

Candidate computers

• Mark Lory-Moran – Optiplex 755 purchased May 28, 2008
• Dorothy – Testing center – Optiplex 755 purchased March 26, 2008
• Deb Hatfield – Optiplex 745 – older than 2008, but I don't have the exact dates as I haven't been able to inventory it yet