How do you work out the system requirements?

[HodgeHi]

I think I should mention that I have 10 of these things to buy. I don't fancy getting 10 lemons at once

[localzuk]

A dell latitude E6320. Not sure if this is their lowest spec machines but it was either this, the precision mobile, which was more or the XPS, which was even more!

Yeah, you're looking at the wrong range for sure. We just ordered 85 E5420's for about £640 each, with SSDs.

[kernewek-sam]

We buy Toshiba's at the moment and haven't had any major problems with them, one warranty power supply so far.

[SYSMAN_MK]

Dell Lat E5520 i3 / 4GB / 250GB / 5Y NBD Warranty are around £550.00 ATM.

[HodgeHi]

I think I'm going to take a punt at this one:

Samsung Series 3 300E - 15.6" - Core i3 2350M - Windows 7 Professional 64-bit - 6 GB RAM - 750 GB HDD NP300E5A-A0LUK | PC World Business for all your IT needs

Everything seems to point to it being a reasonably decent laptop. Reading a review online it seems capable of what it will be used for, Office, ActivInspire (it will be used to drive the IWB in the class) etc.

[shreevie]

I think I'm going to take a punt at this one:

Samsung Series 3 300E - 15.6" - Core i3 2350M - Windows 7 Professional 64-bit - 6 GB RAM - 750 GB HDD NP300E5A-A0LUK | PC World Business for all your IT needs

Everything seems to point to it being a reasonably decent laptop. Reading a review online it seems capable of what it will be used for, Office, ActivInspire (it will be used to drive the IWB in the class) etc.

We're also looking at buying these as it's kind of hard to match this spec with our current budget. Has anyone else had any experience of this model?

[HodgeHi]

Mine have arrived. I got them for around £355 per machine, with a free bag, wifi keyboard and mouse. You can register for the 5 year warranty as well, which has been extended until September.

I have opened 3 and have an issue with one (hissing noise coming from the sound card). Not sure if I'm just unlucky. Will be unboxing the rest shortly.

[tmcd35]

Pinning a Misco catalogue to a dart board might be more accurate than my method. I tend to have a very rough idea of price/spec based on experience. Price is circa. £400. Spec. up till now has been "Dual Core, not celeron, with 2Gb Ram and 15" screen". For the next batch I think the spec with be "Dual Core, not Celeron, 4Gb Ram, SSD and 15" Screen". Also Toshiba have been the favoured brand for the past couple of years, thinking of looking at Lenovo again? Might ask Novatech next time?

[gshaw]

I'm looking at 13" sub-notebook form factor for something that's a bit more portable for students to move around the classroom, Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E330 i3, 2 \ 4GB RAM