Finally, after weeks of researching and fine-tuning hardware specifications to meet our needs, today I confirmed about HKD96,000 worth of purchases for our company, BBDO Hong Kong. From DELL I ordered an LTO-2 tape autoloader external backup drive (PowerVault 122T LTO-2, 200/400GB capacity per tape) and 3 Optiplex GX280 desktop PCs (P4 3.0GHz/512M/80G/Combo) with 17" UltraSharp LCD displays. Got the new Optiplex case which is more boxy and looks cooler — their "Next-Generation Desktop (DT) Chassis" as shown below. These just came out! Even on DELL's US site, they still have pictures of the old case. Also ordered a Fortinet FortiGate 200A firewall bundled with the 2nd-year hardware/firmware maintenance. Next week I'll be ordering 2 DELL PowerEdge 2800 servers, 1 for file serving and the other as an application server running SQL Server. These will replace existing servers that are aged. Am waiting to meet face to face with one of DELL's tech support engineers on Monday to discuss storage options before firming up the server orders. Am anxious to start playing with all this cool gear but it'll be a lot of work — some of it on the weekends, unfortunately.