Thanks for the input, folks. I just received the final "Quote" I got quotes from HP, Dell, Gateway and IBM. IBM was real helpful and guided me into something that the School Department MIS dept. thinks will be great for our use. It appears we will go with IBM. They set me up with a Mirrored 73 gb hard drives, 2gb ram, twin fans, twin power supplies, a UPS backup, a tape drive, media and software for just over $5k. The rest of them were single drives/fans/power supplies etc for around $4,800 so the added expense is not that much. Dell made me feel like more of an idiot than I already am and like I was bothering them. No warm and fuzzies there. The "State Bid" HP was pretty pricy for what I was getting. We'll see how things progress. We also got the 3 yr, 24/7 4 hr service plan which will really help us. We tend to break things often
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