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REINVENTING HISTORY
4/6/2005
"We were so sick of noisy desktops and we wanted new ones that were quieter and would provide us better return on our investment," he says. "Because of BTX, the [E6300s] were a perfect fit, and we know we'll have them much longer than we would have had computers from any other vendor."
The Low Profile
Other design innovations have helped spark change at other universities. At Wichita State University (KS), for instance, IT Director Roger Jones recently purchased 50 computers in Gateway's Profile 4 and Profile 5 series for two tiny computer labs at the Barton School of Business. Space was at a premium in the cramped labs, and Jones says the compact Profile design was a perfect solution because it combines monitor and CPU into one space-saving form factor. The Profile series has been such a hit that Jones says the school plans to buy another 25 units for staff and faculty offices this summer when money becomes available.
Technologists are singing the same song across the Sunflower State at the University of Kansas. There, campus officials selected computers in the Profile 4 and Profile 5 series for public areas in the school's libraries to save space. Marianne Reed, senior systems specialist for enterprise academic systems, says the machines give the labs a "clean, uncluttered look that is really attractive." She adds that with headphone jacks in the front, two USB and FireWire ports on the side, and four more USB ports in the back, the computers are more flexible than similarly designed thin client computers that would have served the same space-saving purpose.
"These computers are reasonably priced, they look great, and they save space because there's no separate unit housing the CPU," says Reed. "We simply couldn't have asked for anything more."
Matt Villano is senior contributing editor of this publication.
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