Reccommendations for Small Powerful PC's for Music

[farquea]

We are looking to purchase some new PC's for our Music room, looking at 6-11 depending on the budget but just wondered if anyone could reccommend anything.

 

We need something reasonably powerful to run Music apps such as Cubase which i believe becomes a bit of a resource hog but at the same time ideally something small as possible space is limited. Dell would be nice too as we have Dell around the rest of the school.

[3s-gtech]

We run Sibelius with Sibelius Sounds (real sound files as opposed to midi). For these sort of machines, a decent dual core would be fine, but get plenty of RAM. The Optiplex 360 looks okay, get 4GB of RAM in them with the Core 2 Duo option if you are looking towards Dell.

 

Plenty of other alternatives around from HP and others, perhaps with this quantity of machines it'd work out to build your own? Potential for great value there.