IBM SurePOS500 reviews 1

[sibasis]

We are looking at the IBM SurePOS 500 systems to use as our POS machine, we develop our own software, Any one has any experience with these IBM machines, Just wanted to get a heads up on its problems and issues before buying them.

thanks.

 

[DTSMAN]

I assume you will be buying the newest? They got off to a rough start with touch screen failures on the 531 series, it looks as thought they are going back to the infared approach. We have gotten away from them as we have found Posiflex, and Radiant to be just as Good and cheaper. I did put out 3 of the 533 series with 15inch infared touch on them and haven't had any problems. I have many of the 532 series with regular touch screens out and they seem dependable.

Bo

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[sibasis]

thanks. This helps.

 

[sibasis]

Bo,

We just got a loaner unit from IBM, a 4840-563, Any experience with that? The one thing visible is the Unit's heavy - apart from that it feels ok, we will be running the unit through some test cycles, lets see how it performs

 

[DTSMAN]

Just set up our one and only 563 last week. We get ours without operating systems and it took 3 of us to get it loaded and going with all the periphials and XPpro. It went to a customer this week and so far so good, but no long term experience with this model yet. I feel the Surepos series is improving with each new release, but we are getting such good deals on Raidiants since they bought Aloha software, and they give the software dealers good deals on hardware.

Bo

I'm a man,, I can change,, If I have too,, I guess. (Red Green)

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