Design Integration Laboratory

Architecture Computer Bundles
Fall 1995

August 1995

Overview

This handout describes the currently appropriate hardware and software for a "typical architecture student" who wants to use the Macintosh for design studio work in our department. This standard system is now available as a package from the Microcomputer Purchase Plan at the University Computing Center. (Room 202, 503-346-4402.)

To effectively participate in the UO Architecture Computer-Integrated Studio program, each student needs to have a Power Macintosh computer in the design studio from the beginning of the studio term. More specifically, incoming architecture students are required (by a unanimous vote of the architecture faculty taken Spring 1994) to have access to computer tools in their studio work space, and assignments across the curriculum will assume this capability. The Department recommends that each student purchase his or her own Power Macintosh and specified software to meet this requirement.

Note: The Fall Architecture Bundles are only available through October 13, 1995. Until that date, architecture student orders for this bundle will be filled on a priority basis, due to a specially arranged bulk advance order. After that date, orders for these systems will be filled on a first-come first-served basis together with purchasers campus-wide.

Hardware -- standard system

Power Macintosh 7500 (second generation Power Mac) . . . Why Power Mac?
with 100Mhz Power PC 601 processor, PCI bus, 16MB RAM, 500MB HD,

$2575
AppleDesign keyboard, full size

$73
Apple 17" multi-scan monitor, high resolution for CAD work

$857
Hardware total

Bundle total -- $3475

(~$30 less than separate prices)

Software -- (required for Arch 222, etc.)

DesignWorkshop® PPC -- design-oriented 3D modeling . . . Why DesignWorkshop?

$145

Photoshop 3.0 -- painting and image manipulation . . . Why Photoshop?

$233

PowerCADD -- professional drawing/drafting . . . Why PowerCADD?

$346

ClarisWorks 4.0 -- word-processing, spreadsheet, page layout, etc. . . . Why ClarisWorks?

$57

Software total

Bundle total -- $625

(~$150 less than separate prices)

Complete System Bundle

Bundle total -- $4100

from Microcomputer Purchase Plan, 346-4402

Room 202, U.O. Computing Center

(prices estimated -- confirm from MPP flyer)

University of Oregon Microcomputer Purchase Plan

Other Stuff -- FYI

E-mail client software -- provided by Arch. Dept.

Just sign up for your AAA account, using the form which will be passed out in

Arch 222/610, or, you can get the form from Dennis Bishop, Room 204 Pacific.

Insurance -- cost varies

Make sure you're covered under existing renter's or home owner's insurance

--the computer may need to be declared to be covered.

Security clip, padlock, security cable -- ~$50

Security clip snaps into back of your computer

--available thru Microcomputer Purchase Plan.

Cables and padlocks are available many places.

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