[Year 12 IPM] Good PC vendors + BRANDS

Sun Aug 27 22:01:12 EST 2006

We asked for ACER to leave out the FDD and cdrom drives for all but
computer's used by teachers in the labs / pods and one in the library. We
also disabled most PC speakers by unplugging the speakers inside the case.
Wasnt a major issue as headsets and USB keys are on the booklist with
general office offering some for sale.

Regards Roland

On 21/08/06, Andrew Sutton <sutton.andrew.b at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:
>
> 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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> -----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
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> Phone: 61 3 9859 8652
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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: 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-----
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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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> Learning Technologies Coordinator
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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
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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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>
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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
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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
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> Learning Technology Coordinator
>
> Mercy College, Coburg.
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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
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