11-07-2003 01:17									#1
	Educational discounts Suffering from ads?

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?

	11-07-2003 01:34									#2
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This is UK, but...
www.studentmachines.com

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

	11-07-2003 01:55									#3
	Put an end to popups!

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

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

	11-07-2003 02:04									#4
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Yeah, I figured.
What about this?

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

	11-07-2003 02:10									#5
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Apply for a grant

	11-07-2003 02:55									#6
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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

	11-07-2003 03:19									#7
	Re: Educational discounts Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

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.

	11-07-2003 03:45									#8
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Uh, take a small loan and buy a all-in-one dell inspiron 8500, thats what im gonna do

	11-07-2003 04:31									#9
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

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...

	11-07-2003 04:37									#10
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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...te=308743008093

you can berely feel 2,7 kg in your back

	11-07-2003 04:39									#11
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

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

	11-07-2003 04:40									#12
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rk-95?

	11-07-2003 04:41									#13
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

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

	11-07-2003 04:43									#14
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Why would you buy a mobile Pentium 4?

	11-07-2003 04:44									#15
	Tired of ads?

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

	11-07-2003 04:46									#16
	Got spare money?

2.824,30
With this price you could get that assault rifle?

	11-07-2003 04:47									#17
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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...

	11-07-2003 04:52									#18
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

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.

	11-07-2003 11:29									#19
	Suffering from ads?

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..

	11-07-2003 11:36									#20
	Remove this text

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

	11-07-2003 18:23									#21
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

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.

	11-07-2003 22:17									#22
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Ah, well try to get them bundled with nice discount

	11-07-2003 22:20									#23
	Remove this text

There's no sales tax in Oregon.