Educational discounts

Asher · July 10, 2003, 16:17

I'm going to be buying an IBM ThinkPad T40 within the next few days. Because it's quite a bit of money, I'd love to get an educational price on it and probably save a few hundred dollars.

But I don't know where. My campus computer store only sells Apples, Compaqs, Sony's and Toshiba's.

Do companies usually give you an educational price if you phone them and order it, saying you're a student?

SlowwHand · July 10, 2003, 16:34

This is UK, but...
www.studentmachines.com

Or maybe http://www.campusdepot.com/computers.htm

Asher · July 10, 2003, 16:55

Thanks Sloww, but I'm trying to find something based in Canada if possible.

Customs is a b*tch, especially on expensive items.

SlowwHand · July 10, 2003, 17:04

Yeah, I figured.
What about this?

http://www.nethorde.com/discount/

Japher · July 10, 2003, 17:10

Apply for a grant

Fve Crathva · July 10, 2003, 17:55

Both the computer stores at UVic charge about 5% more than the local retailers. I guess it helps that we're out in the suburbs.

SP

tinyp3nis · July 10, 2003, 18:19

Quote:

Originally posted by Asher
I'm going to be buying an IBM ThinkPad T40 within the next few days. Because it's quite a bit of money, I'd love to get an educational price on it and probably save a few hundred dollars.

But I don't know where. My campus computer store only sells Apples , Compaqs, Sony's and Toshiba's.

Do companies usually give you an educational price if you phone them and order it, saying you're a student?

Get a Mac!!!

Somebody had to.

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 18:45

Uh, take a small loan and buy a all-in-one dell inspiron 8500, thats what im gonna do

Asher · July 10, 2003, 19:31

Inspiron 8500? That thing is huge!

The ThinkPad T40 is 1" thick, 4.5lbs, made with a titanium composite case, shock-absorbed harddrive, and 7h of batterylife (11h if you replace the DVD/CD-RW bay with another battery).

Tri-band 802.11a/b/g, 512MB RAM, 1.5GHz Pentium M...

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 19:37

Huge? 2.7 kg?

Height: 38.6 mm

Width: 361.3 mm

Depth: 276 mm

Barely, considering it has 15,4 screen etc. Anyway, if it's too heavy why wouldnt you buy this http://www.bdog.fi/cgi-bin/netstore/...e=308743008093

you can berely feel 2,7 kg in your back

tinyp3nis · July 10, 2003, 19:39

If you want a lot of power with 2.7kg, get an assault rifle!!!

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 19:40

rk-95?

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 19:41

Anyway here's my configuration :
Inspiron 8500 N2500WVT Performance (85003IA)

Perusosat: 16 bitin SoundBlaster Pro 3D- ääni
Sisäinen mikrofoni ja kaiutin
Smart Lithium Ion Battery
Inspiron 8500, Paino vain 2,7 kg
Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor featuring Intel® SpeedStep technology
2.0 USB -porttia ja 1 S-video ulostulo

Huolto :1 vuoden noutohuolto. Standardina tässä mallissa

Complete Care: 3 vuoden CompleteCare

Suoritin: Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 processor - M 2.6 GHz

Muisti: 512MB DDR SDRAM/266MHz (1x512MB)

Väri: Ion Silver/Moonlight Silver

Näyttö: UT - 15,4'' TFT WUXGA + (1920*1200)

Kiintolevy: 60GB Ultra DMA/ATA 100

Näytönohjain: 64MB DDR nVidia GeForce4 4200 GO AGP 4X

Optinen yksikkö: DVD+RW

Langaton lähiverkk: Mini PCI Wireless LAN TM1300 (b/g)

Käyttöjärjestelmä: MS Windows XP Pro.

Ohjelmisto: MS Works 7.0

Kieli (Käyttöjärjestelmä & Ohjelmisto): Suomenkielinen

Optiot: Lithium-Ion Iisäakku (+ EUR 155,00 EUR)

Yhteensä sisältäen ALV:n
Maksettava määrä 2.824,30 EUR

Asher · July 10, 2003, 19:43

Why would you buy a mobile Pentium 4?

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 19:44

Because it's fast and more power saving/faster than regular Pentium 4 and you cant change it

tinyp3nis · July 10, 2003, 19:46

2.824,30

With this price you could get that assault rifle?

Asher · July 10, 2003, 19:47

Quote:

Originally posted by laurentius
Because it's fast and more power saving/faster than regular Pentium 4 and you cant change it

The Pentium M is way better for laptops...

laurentius · July 10, 2003, 19:52

Yeah, it may be but I can't include it with that configuration....and I dont want 12.1 " screen and external dvd+rw + crappy integrated videocard+ non-existing upgradebility.
You know almost every component can be upgraded in my current conf. the memory, the grafx card you name it.

laurentius · July 11, 2003, 02:29

Anyway, there are some choices you have to make before buying new PC. Laptop or desktop? Choose laptop. Slim and laconic or a bit hevier and powered by the fastest mobile technology? It's really whatever you prefere. Ideal would be if you'd be able to get it both. Slim and very powerful. Closest you can get is Inspiron 8500 with ultrasharp widescreen(1920*1200), Sony Vaio(newest models) or perhaps the good ol 17" G4..

laurentius · July 11, 2003, 02:36

More on Dells Inspiron 8500? check out this review
http://www.thetechzone.com/display.php?i=254&p=1

Asher · July 11, 2003, 09:23

Quote:

Originally posted by laurentius
Anyway, there are some choices you have to make before buying new PC. Laptop or desktop? Choose laptop. Slim and laconic or a bit hevier and powered by the fastest mobile technology? It's really whatever you prefere. Ideal would be if you'd be able to get it both. Slim and very powerful. Closest you can get is Inspiron 8500 with ultrasharp widescreen(1920*1200), Sony Vaio(newest models) or perhaps the good ol 17" G4..

I'm buying both laptop and desktop.

laurentius · July 11, 2003, 13:17

Ah, well try to get them bundled with nice discount

st_swithin · July 11, 2003, 13:20

There's no sales tax in Oregon.