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On 20/03/2012 10:50 PM, James Bromberger wrote:
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On 20/03/2012 11:27 AM, Jason Nicholls wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <b>Laptops</b><br>
We've been looking at Laptops with both ExpressCard and
USB3, and that's lead us to the Dell Vostro 3550. I've had
a slew of issues with Dell's I've used before, and other
comments about ExpressCards "popping out" unexpectedly may
be an issue. DO we want to keep the USB3 requirement for
future expansion, or do we want to drop back to a laptop
with on-board firewire? What about another vendor?<br>
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Interesting the 3450 (my original suggestion) includes an
ExpressCard again in the list of specs. It did, then didn't
and has it again now... USB3 is becoming less of a
restriction as pretty much anything recent has it now,
however FW is the killer and ExpressCard tends to only be on
the larger laptops.<br>
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Carl's suggestion of the Lenovo T400 series is good except
the current T420 has an optional FW connector as AFAIK none
of the models on offer in Australia have it. However it does
have USB3 + ExpressCard - starting at just over $1050.
However, the 15" model - the T520 - seems to have FW as
standard and it starts from $1200.<br>
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Our budget line for these was $848.99. Current Dell quote comes in
at $788.59, plus three cases/bags at $39.01 makes a total of
$2,482.79. <br>
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I've also spoken to Dell today hope to get a non-profit association
pricing for this above. Note: the above configuration has 3 GB of
RAM in each host, but is otherwise base model for the three "video
ingest" machines. Please check the spec above and raise any concerns
now. I should have an updated price (or offering) from Dell by noon
WST. <br>
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