Hardware Standards/Recommendations for Students 2015-2016 Laptops Buying Source Apple Dell HP Samsung Vendor Apple Logical Front Gov Connection Gov Connection Use Case Architecture, Engineering, All majors excluding Architecture, Engineering, All majors excluding Graphic Design, and any Architecture, Engineering, and any student who is Architecture and student who is interested in and Graphic Design. Can be interested in streaming video Engineering. For Microsoft higher-end computing, used for streaming video and and moderate gaming Office users or users of the gaming and/or streaming light gaming rCloud. Not recommended video for HD video streaming or gamin Model MacBook Pro 15 w/ Inspiron 15 5000 w/touch HP Elitebook 840 G1 Samsung ATIV Book 9 Lite SuperDrive & thunderbolt to screen Notebook Quad Core gigabit adapter Processor Speed/GHz 2.5 GHz i7 turbo boost to 3.7 I5/4210U processor 3M I7/2.1 GHz w/ Turbo 4mb 1.4 GHz GHz Cache up to 2.7 GHz cache Memory Ram 16 GB 1600 MHz DDDR3L 8GB (2-DIMM) DDR3L 1600 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM SDRAM MHz SDRAM Hard Drive Size 512 GB Flash storage 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA 500 GB 128 GB (solid state drive) Screen Size 15” 15.6” 14” 13.3” Weight 4.46 lbs 5.24 lbs 3.50 lbs 3.50lbs Video Intel Iris Pro Graphics/Nvidia Intel HD Graphics 4400 Radeon HD 8750M 91 GB Radeon HD 8750M Graphics GeForce GT 750M Graphics Warranty Apple Care 3 year 1 year in home service 3 year (accidental damage 90 days parts and labor protection (ADP) purchased separately) Estimated Base Cost $2650.00 $650.00 $1600.00 (includes ADP) $700.00 Tablets Buying Source Apple Google Microsoft Samsung Vendor Apple Gov Connection/Amazon Gov Connection/Amazon Gov Connection Model iPad Air HTC Nexus 9 Android Surface Pro 2 Galaxy Note 10.1 (Android) Processor Speed/GHz A7 chip 64 bit/M7 motion 2.3 GHz Tegra NVIDIA 4 Tegra 4 Processor 1.9 GHz Quad + 1.3 Quad coprocessor Core Memory Ram 16 GB 16 GB/2 GB DDR3 2 GB Ram; 32 GB DDR3 2 GB Ram & 16 GB on board SDRAM Screen Size 9.7” 8.9” 10.6” 10” Weight 1 lb 15 oz. 1.5 lbs 1.31 labs Video Up to 1080p through 64 bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 Dual NVIDIA Tegra 4 1080p playback full HD in Lightning Digital AV Adapter Denver 1280 x 800 screen and Lightning to VGA Adapter (adapters sold separately) Warranty 1 year 1 year 1 year (excludes neglect or damage) Estimated Base Cost $399.00 $350.00 $380.00 $350.00 Smart Phones Buying Source Android Apple Windows Mobile Vendor Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless/Apple Verizon Wireless Models Samsung Galaxy Note 4 iPhone 6 Samsung ATIV SE Samsung Galazy Edge iPhone 6 Plus HTC One Windows Samsung Galaxy S4 Samsung Galaxy S5 HTC One .