FW: [Malvern] asustek

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Cheryl

Can you get anything through Uni or LEA if you're still that way inclined?
You may be able to get something at a corporate price.

Alternatively, we use HP predominately at work with some Dell, having moved
from Fujitsu about 2 years ago due to reliability problems with the
Lifebooks.

Although at work we are a M$ house my own personal Office suite is Open
Office - I have had no problems with using this except when I have to run a
Visual Basic Script or Application attached to the file - it doesn't always
perform as you would expect within OO.

I'm surprised about The Chase - WCC and the LEA are that strapped at the
moment that XP is still being rolled out to schools within the County.  I
presume that they might have got their own funding for the upgrades but
sheesh they could probably build another science block for the cost of those
upgrades!

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Chris Eilbeck
Sent: 11 February 2007 23:08
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Malvern] asustek


On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:49:07PM +0000, Cheryl Phillips wrote:
> I did like the old satellite I had so maybe a Toshiba would be a
> consideration

I was gonna buy one but the website was such a pig to find one that was just
what I wanted.

> - budget is around the 800 possibly pushing to a grand at the moment altho
> - the cheaper the better really

You should easily manage it.  If you don't want a particular screen or a
huge disk, or loads of RAM, there are a good few on the Dell site for less
than that.  You can get a midrange machine with a decent display, 1Gb RAM
and 80Gb disk for just under 600 quid inc vat and shipping.  They'll add 175
quid or something for 3 years onsite warranty but you can drop that back to
a year to save it.

> - owen into madresfield nursery for summat ridiculous per hour.

Ouch!

> - I just want it to run ms office (i know i know but its for work) and
> - whatever else software i have to teach these kids to use.

Do you have to buy this tat yourself too?

> - altho i have heard the chase will prob be runnin vista by september so
> - maybe other schools in the area will follow suit? so hum.... vista
> - capabilities are a must i guess

I'd guess that pretty much anything that you can buy will run it to some
extent.  Rick has had some interesting experiences with Vista.

Chris
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Chris Eilbeck
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