Improving Decision Making: Using a Spreadsheet to Evaluate Hardware and Software Options

Software skills: Spreadsheet formulas

Business skills: Technology pricing In this exercise, you will use spreadsheet software to calculate the cost of desktop systems, printers, and software.

Use the Internet to obtain pricing information on hardware and software for an office of $30$ people. You will need to price $30$ PC desktop systems $($monitors$,$ computers, and keyboards$)$ manufactured by Lenovo, Dell, and HP$.($For the purposes of this exercise, ignore the fact that desktop systems usually come with preloaded software packages.$)$ Also obtain pricing on $15$ desktop printers manufactured by HP$,$ Canon, and Dell. Each desktop system must satisfy the minimum specifications shown in tables which you can find in MyMISLab.