Swish It Away is beginning to grow. The president now wants Danielle to acquire

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Swish It Away is beginning to grow. The president now wants Danielle to acquire computers for three new staff members. Randi has been hired as the president's personal assistant and will need to run a word processor, spreadsheet application, a web browser, and an e-mail client. Pooja will provide marketing and graphics services, such as press releases, brochures, flyers, advertisements, and graphics for the new Web site. Stan is the new salesperson who will travel locally each day. When he's in the office, he will share a desktop computer with another salesperson, but Stan needs to be able to check e-mail and access the Internet while he's out of the office. What computer specifications should Danielle look for, and which editions of Windows 7 should run on each computer?

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     Randi can run a word processor, spreadsheet application, a Web browser, and an e-mail client on a computer with a 2 GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM, and at least a 250 GB hard drive. The computer should run Windows 7 Professional Edition. Pooja’s graphics programs may require at least 8 GB of RAM and 500 GB or more of hard disk space and should run Windows 7 Professional. Danielle should acquire a netbook for Stan. The network would run Windows 7 Starter Edition.

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