[Year 12 IPM] RE: Good PC vendors + BRANDS + Leasing?

Mon Aug 21 11:42:56 EST 2006

Anoyone out there actually 'purchasing' machines rather than leasing?
Cheers

Trent Bolte

"Kathy Lewis" <lewis.katherine.k at edumail.vic.gov.au> on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:59:37 +1000 wrote:
>  
> Hello Everyone,
> We purchase all our IT equipment from 'Optima Technology Solutions'. The
> service is excellent and very professional and the equipment is reliable and
> excellent quality. All our PC's, UPS's and servers are leased with a 3-yr
> turn around.
> Optima's details are:
> Michael Collins
> State Education Team Leader
> Optima Technology Solutions
> Phone   : 03 8645-7777
> Fax        : 03 9645-4100
> Mobile : 0407 059 759
> michaelc at optima.com.au
> Hope this helps you,
> Kathy
> 
> Katherine Lewis
> Co-Acting Assistant Principal
> ICT/Systems Manager
> ARIES Instructor
> OH&S Staff Representative
> La Trobe Secondary College
> Waiora Road,
> MACLEOD Vic 3085
> ( 03 9459 9633
> (  03 9459 1671
>   lewis.katherine.k at edumail.vic.gov.au
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> Teachers'Mailing List
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Trent Bolte
> Sent: Monday, 21 August 2006 8:29 AM
> To: 'Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management Teachers'
> Mailing List'
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Bell, Cameron P
> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 2:31 PM
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
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> Subject: RE: [Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors
> 
> I'll second that.
> Cameron
> 
> _________________________________________
> Cameron Bell
> Learning Technologies Coordinator
> Mooroolbark College
> Mooroolbark College is a Yarra Valley e-Learning Community School
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Sutton
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:36 PM
> To: 'Year 12 Information Technology Processing and
> ManagementTeachers'Mailing List'
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]
> On
> Behalf Of Trent Bolte
> Sent: Friday, 18 August 2006 8:35 AM
> To: 'Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management
> Teachers'Mailing List'
> 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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> On Behalf Of Trish Cotter
> Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:40 PM
> To: ipm at edulists.com.au
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Aggregated and detailed information
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> 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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Trent Bolte
Learning Technology Coordinator
Mercy College, Coburg

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