If you are thinking of purchasing a laptop for your son then please read the following information.
Please use the Australian DELL WEB ( www.dell.com.au )site for an online purchase. The prices that are held here are very difficult for the education section of DELL to beat
Basic Information for the purchase of ANY laptop including purchases from Harvey Norman and the like.....
Intel motherboard including wireless
2 GB RAM minimum
Windows XP Pro is recommended by the College
3 year Warranty - NBD Next business Day onsite (Otherwise you could be waiting for a while) If you purchase a DELL then the school will act on your behalf.
120 GB Hard Drive
optional: Upmarket Video card BUT be careful not to get talked into something expensive
Microsoft Office 2007 Office 2008 for MACS You are not obliged to purchase Office 2007 while your son is at the College as earlier versions of Office (2003) will be fine.
However if you do wish to purchase Office 2007 / MAC Office 08 the College is in a position to assist you in this.
This is what is in the package:
Word,
Excel,
PowerPoint and
Entourage – a comparable product to Outlook.
Costs: The licence is $69.00 + gst and the media is $10 + gst. A total of $86.90 (incl gst).
Please fill out the documents below and clearly mark it for MAC otherwise we assume its for windows
Gary Evans