New PC Suite

[steelrazor]

Does anyone have any companies they can recommend in terms of both price and support?

I've got to put together 3 quotes for a PC suite and wanted to know if anyone had any company to recommend, or even advise against 8O

[Elky]

Hi Matt

We'd love to be one of the 3 companies invited to quote. Please visit our website at www.sclonline.co.uk or email me at dw@sclonline.co.uk. All of our PCs are built to the highest standard and come with 3 year on-site warranties as standard.

Regards

[webman]

Ask for Rachael Shalloe at The IT Support Centre - they have given us the PCs for this room.

[Jon]

When you say they have Given you the machines,do you really mean given or sholud it read sold.

If it really is given how does this work?

[ajbird]

Have you looked at the OGC Great Deals???

You don't need 3 quotes to buy from them and the prices are unbelievable and available to any school etc (must be public sector)

you would be mad not to at least look at what is available

Great Deals

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see here for the catalog

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Customers please note that they are permitted under EU rules to make a catalogue selection without running further competition for Great Deals.

typical pc

Small Form Factor Chassis (100 X 407 X 348 mm (W X D X H) - SIS 661FX Chipset - Intel Pentium 4 524 CPU - 2 x 512MB DDR RAM - 80GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive - Combo CD-RW/DVD Drive - Onboard Gigabit LAN - Onboard SIS 661FX Graphics - Onboard Audio - USB Keyboard - USB Optical Mouse - Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2 - 3 Years On-Site Next Business Day Warranty & HansG 17" TFT (P/N125023) http://www.misco.co.uk/nopricinginfo...125022&cam=WW#

The current deals offer price savings of up to 49%, with prices for a PC with a TFT Monitor starting at just £370.00. Laptops can be purchased for as little as £461.21, and PC base units and TFT Monitors are available with prices starting at just £268.00 for PCs and £88.00 for monitors.

cheers

andy

[webman]

Yeah they gave us machines ...







... in exchange for a purchase order placed by the school's finance people

[john]

I have had some suites from CCL Computers in Bradford, great spec and price, they have just smashed a quotation from North Yorks LEA! Give Mark or Gaz a ring - 01274 471227

[plexer]

Laptops can be purchased for as little as £461.21,

Wow great prices....not!!!!

Ben

[GrumbleDook]

it is not a bad idea ... but for most schools they get similar deals anyway ... you still get a good idea and can argue down prices with some manufacturers.

[contink]

I have had some suites from CCL Computers in Bradford, great spec and price, they have just smashed a quotation from North Yorks LEA! Give Mark or Gaz a ring - 01274 471227

Why am I not surprised..

FWIW, I've recently spec'd up a set of AM2 Sempron 2800 based machines that I'm building myself and they come in at just under £400 with an LG 1718S screen. The idea being that we can upgrade them in 2 years with x2 core Athlons and keep them going for another 3 years+.

Granted that's only 15 machines but I can't recommend enough the Aspire X-Qpack cases (mATX) with ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboards.. work very well, are easy to build and aren't a bad option when it comes to upgrades as there's space aplenty.

Only down side is that the onboard LANs aren't DOS compatible but they do handle RIS very nicely indeed.


Edit: corrected motherboard name.

[PeterW]

Only down side is that the onboard LANs aren't DOS compatible but they do handle RIS very nicely indeed.

Nvidia chipset per chance? (couldnt see that model on ASUS website unless its the M2NPV-VM)

There are Dos drivers but they are 2 part which makes things a bit interesting but certainly do-able.

[contink]

Nvidia chipset per chance? (couldnt see that model on ASUS website unless its the M2NPV-VM)

Correct.. my bad for missing the 'N' in the unit name..

There are Dos drivers but they are 2 part which makes things a bit interesting but certainly do-able.

Oh? I tried looking for them but had no luck... Suspect we're about to take this way off topic though but useful to know that there are DOS drivers out there.

[markcuk]

try my friend Fatima @ ccs media in bradford call her on 01274 523466

just waiting for a response about some hp computers from her

hoping to get a price of £295 for this spec

hp dc5100 small form factor
p4 3.2ghz
1gb ram
80gb sata hard drive
dvd rom
usb mice/keyboard
xp pro

no monitors

just waiting now for hp

mark

mark

[john]

Probably worth noting that, that machine, price and spec was last months Top Value Product as I had it on my price list from them, they did an AMD based one (3800+ X2) or that Intel one so it may be different this month

[Grommit]

you can get Lenovo's and a 17" Flat screen for approx £340 ex Vat