[Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors + BRANDS

Mon Aug 21 10:11:08 EST 2006

The biggest problem we had with the older Acer design was that fatter USB
sticks could not be plugged into the front of the machines they have fixed
this problem as well as added more ports to the front of the computers.  As
far as reliability is concerned we have found them very good, although we
would like to see gear driven cd drives rather than rubber band driven ones
as they are much more robust in the classroom.

Andrew Sutton
IT / SOSE Teacher
St Arnaud Secondary College

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From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au] On
Behalf Of RILEY, Bruce
Sent: Monday, 21 August 2006 8:52 AM
To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors + BRANDS

Hi Trent,
This year we have leased 240 DELL PCs and 39 DELL notebooks. We have
been very happy with the machines, the support and servicing. A couple
have had power supplies die but these were fixed promptly. The only
issue we have had is that the DELL badges are easily removed. We solved
this with supa glue.
Bruce

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Bruce Riley
ICT Manager
Kew High School
1393 Burke Road
East Kew, Victoria. 3102
Australia

Phone: 61 3 9859 8652
Fax: 61 3 9819 7880

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On Behalf Of Trent Bolte
Sent: Monday, 21 August 2006 8:29 AM
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Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors + BRANDS

Hello Again
Another part to my original question that I meant to ask was which brad
would you go with taking into account mainly reliability but also
usability.

Cheers

Trent Bolte

Learning Technology Coordinator

Mercy College, Coburg.

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On Behalf Of Bell, Cameron P
Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 2:31 PM
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I'll second that.
Cameron

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Cameron Bell
Learning Technologies Coordinator
Mooroolbark College
Mooroolbark College is a Yarra Valley e-Learning Community School
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On Behalf Of Andrew Sutton
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:36 PM
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Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors

Sorry if this sounds too much like an ad but this is an honest
response....We get most of our stuff from Learning With Technologies (
www.LWT.com.au ) which have mainly Acer stuff and they are quite cheap.
They
sell mostly to schools. It's run by a bloke called Paul Doherty who used
to
be with the Department of Education and helped set up a bunch of IT
programs
and they seem to know what is going on in terms of ICT in education.  We
have found them great to deal with even though we are quite a long way
away.
We find the Acer warranties very good and they let you open up the box
yourself if there is a simple fix that you don't want to bother having
to
wait for a technician to come out and fix.  
That became an issue from us when we bought a bunch of computers that
had to
be taken back because they wouldn't let us loosen the screws on the
floppy
drives that they tightened up too much, so we loaded up the computers
into
the school car and took them to Melbourne when we had a PD day.  On the
bolte bridge there was an accident ahead of us.  We stopped.  The car
behind
us didn't.  I wish I had a camera to capture the look on her face when
we
opened up our boot to reveal $15,000 worth of computers.  Interestingly
she
did have a camera in her glove box to record the damage, which begged
the
question how often did she have car accidents, but that is getting a
little
off track. 

Andrew Sutton
IT / SOSE Teacher
St Arnaud Secondary College

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On
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Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 8:35 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors

I know it's not IPM related but can anyone out there recommend a PC
vendor for schools?
So far I've investigated HP, DELL and Acer.  We are looking to get 100
basic units and about 14 multimedia/graphics units.  Based on value for
money I'm currently leaning towards DELL (we're not getting laptops ;)
or HP.

Trent Bolte

Learning Technology Coordinator

Mercy College, Coburg.

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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Aggregated and detailed information

In fact the best example of detailed information is the supermarket
invoice / docket which details everything (item by item) that was bought
in one transaction.

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Trish Cotter
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tcotter at koonung.vic.edu.au
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