PC Purchasing Recommendations

The Astro IT group has leveraged our knowledge and relationships with various computer vendors to provide hardware recommendations for business and research applications here in PMA. Below you will find a list of hardware recommendations and vendors with which we have worked closely to ensure the best possible pricing and service.

Desktop computers

Dell Pro Micro: administrative and business applications

Latest processor with 4 - 16 Cores
Windows 11 Pro
1 TB SSD OS
1 TB SSD Backup SSD
16 - 64GB Memory

BOXX Apex S3 Workstation: engineering applications

Boxx (Custom for SolidWorks 3D rendering)

Latest processor with 16 - 32 Cores
Windows 11 Pro
1 TB SSD OS
1 TB SSD Backup SSD
32 - 64 GB Memory

Laptop Computers

Apple MacBook Pro

M4 14 Core processor
1 TB SSD OS
16 - 64 GB Memory

Dell Pro Plus

Latest processor with 14 Cores
1 TB SSD OS
Windows 11 Pro or Linux RHEL 9
16 - 64 GB Memory