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I'm off to college and I'm gonna buy a laptop so | by Talchas | 2007-07-10 04:48:23 |
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Check with your college for deals to students. | by justncase | 2007-07-10 06:15:26 |
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Yeah, I did, but either I failed at using the site | by Talchas | 2007-07-10 06:36:08 |
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by mpking |
2007-07-10 07:11:18 |
I work at a college which tries very hard to get killer deals for our students. I've actually sat on the committee that chooses the laptop.
The problem is muti-tierd. In a school that is tied to the state, or is over a certain size, they are usually required (By law, by local policy, whatever) to BID out the laptop to all the manufacturers. This means they don't really get to choose what they want to offer, but in fact have to accept whatever model the Manufacture offers.
Manufacturers do not set they're production schedule by school year. (Yet, I personally think this might change, since 50-70% of sales now are students buying laptops for college/high school)
This usually means that laptops are produced from April/May till October/November. Then a new model is introduced from October till April.
This really sucks for schools, cause they want to have everything ready for MAY (Parents buy laptops as highschool graduation gifts) but they manufactuers change models then, so usually Colleges have to struggle to get everything ready for July.
Your probably seeing LAST years deal on they're website.
College's are just like any other big company. Information will stay on a website till somebody changes it.
Of course, the manufactuer partnered with the school is happy to sell you last years laptop at this years price.
Our Laptop won't be ready for at least a another week. We did remove last year's laptop from our website, but we get 20-40 calls a day from parents that want to know when we're going to publish it.
This year also introduces Vista. I know you personally want to run linux. But the average computer users (Read your parents) want the "best". Right now, Microsoft has successfully convinced enough people that Vista is the "best". However, nobody in IT wants to support Vista.
Our college has prepared two images for our laptop. Our students can choose XP, or Vista.
For a reference, we offer Dell Latitude 630's, 2Gb RAM, DVD burner, Laptop Lojack (Cool product) I don't know the final price. I think this year has an Centrino chipset (It's Santa Rosa for the really curios), so it has 802.11 a/g/n
To sum it up:
Your college probably will have a deal, just not fast enough for you. People making the website / answering the phone don't actually have any information to tell you. |
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Don't just trust their website | by Menetlaus | 2007-07-10 08:35:09 |
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The trick is a well written RFP. :) | by justncase | 2007-07-10 10:28:50 |
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