There is no charge for using most of the computing clusters in the University of Chicago community although many centers are now charging for printing. Each room in the New Graduate Residence Hall has a network jack that can be activated for a reasonable fee, which allows for high-speed access to the Internet. It need not be laser quality since the labs have high quality printers for times when such quality printing is necessary. After students reach their limit, printing is charged at 5 cents per page. CCS sells hardware and software from major vendors such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Dell.
Pricing is very competitive.
The University publishes recommendations for the minimum standard laptop-computing platform. These recommendations are also available from our office.