Perhaps with the savings it'd make sense to look at extended warranty?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:59 AM, James Bromberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@rcpt.to">james@rcpt.to</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 21/03/2012 9:27 AM, James Bromberger wrote:
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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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<a href="http://ecomm.apj.dell.com/dellstore/basket_retrieve.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l=en&s=bsd&itemtype=CFG&cart_id=1010847135199&toEmail=james@rcpt.to" target="_blank">http://ecomm.apj.dell.com/dellstore/basket_retrieve.aspx?c=au&cs=aubsd1&l=en&s=bsd&itemtype=CFG&cart_id=1010847135199&toEmail=james@rcpt.to</a><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></div></div>
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Dell have now priced this all at <b>$2,277.00</b> inc GST
(non-profit assoc. pricing), down from $2482.79, so we have <b>saved
$205.79</b>. Makes it <b>$759 inc GST per machine</b> with the
case, and is $89.99 under our budget per system - but we have yet to
get the firewire express cards (around $15 -$25 each). I have the
Dell quote so our next step, if we agree this is the best step
forward, is to direct deposit funds with the quote number and then I
can confirm the order with Dell (then we get a invoice &
receipt, send to LotteryWest, and wait...).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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James</font></span><div class="im"><br>
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