Laptop/PC

There is a budget within the project for equipment of an employee. The amount depends on the project. In terms of equipment selection one is quite free to choose what they want : laptop, pc, macbook etc… However, the final equipment choice must be approved by the supervisor. It could be that there are extreme hardware requirements for the project, and then a laptop does not comply. But this fact does not often occur and in most cases laptops are sufficient today. For doing an occasionally big calculation then she/he can use the big machine 'dagobert' with many cores and memory.

If the employee wants a PC, then there is an affordable laptop/PC configuration at our standard PC supplier: Central Point; http://centralpoint.nl/. Ask the scientific programmers what the current offer from Central Point is.

You can always mail Central Point for asking them an offer for the specific hardware you want, by emailing them at:

   Email: offerte@centralpoint.nl

When you log in you can see the current default PC configuration of the Radboud University.

There are also employees when they start already have a good laptop, and they postpone ordering hardware until a later time. E.g. a PhD student can wait only a year has passed, the advantage is that at the end of their PhD contract they still have a younger laptop, because four years is quite long for a laptop.

So I suggest that the employee comes with a proposal for equipment. I ask for an official order at our standard supplier, and if this is not much more expensive than the supplier where he found the equipment, we order it at http://centralpoint.nl/, otherwise at the original supplier. Unlike the other supplier http://centralpoint.nl/ has the advantage that they also do repairs on many laptop brands, so in case of problems we don't have to deal with another party.