[Ilugc] Re: FYI: ELCOT Student Labtop Offer
- From: aditya87@xxxxxxxxx (Aditya M)
- Date: Mon Jul 7 20:02:31 2008
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, taufiq aalam <taufiqaalam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I Never trust goverment employees, and they proved me that I am RIGHT.
1.What is the gurantee that they will deliver Laptop on time ?
2.What is the gurantee that the purchase order for Student Laptop will be
confirmed ?
They say that - 3 years International warranty for Laptop and 1 year
warranty for battery from the date of installation and handing over of the
Laptop.
I CANNOT TRUST THEM, BECUASE THEY JUST EAT THEIR WORDS.
I am convinced to consider this a mindless rant because of one bad
experience. You are taking it far too seriously. There is no need to
buy the laptop on terms of "we will keep our *word* about the
guarantees". You will surely get official documentation to the effect
of giving you the promised warranty. And this is company warranty, not
ELCOT's. I know of a couple of friends who bought the laptop last year
in a similar offer and are pretty happy with their choice and service.
They say that 4-5 weeks is the delivery time. It is understandable as
its a high volume deal. A similar sale happened last year, and there
were no problems with delivery, etc. At least nothing happened in the
case of my friends and nothing was reported in the papers either.
Similarly, with the confidence that it happened ok last year, I can
say that your concern about purchase orders is equally baseless.
The company has a good track record in this computer business with the
social cause of promoting linux usage to save costs and spreading
openness/freedom. In case you don't know, they have setup "ELCOT labs"
all over Tamil Nadu in state sponsored schools with SUSE enterprise
linux. Just because the staff here in Chennai are incompetent, you
bring great charges to defame them. A little overboard I think.
*Please do not got for it.*
Shed some 4k-to 5k and you can buy the same hardware configuration from Dell
,HP or some other merchant, and I am sure that the service will be to your
satisfaction.
Its very difficult to escape the Windows tax if you buy it yourself.
I think you should try to find the price of the same configuration in
dell, along with the three years support (at least they have a
customise feature [0]). I did it for you. See the order details at
[1].
Price after taxing (including delivery), is Rs. 56,392!
Ok, even I am terribly surprised by this (so please check at the link
above). But the configuration is nearly the same, except that the
wem-cam is 2 MP instead of ELCOT's 1.3 MP. I had to 7.3K for 320GB
harddisk, ~1K for carry case, and some 8 K for 3 years support. I hope
you reconsider, because you will miss out on quite something here!
Acer does not seem to display prices on its site or I would have
checked them out as well. But Acer does seem to preload linux for some
models, but I have heard that it is very minimal version. That does
not really matter for us, eh? We can always install something :P.
Perhaps its cheap compared to Dell. If someone finds out, please
share.
I can predict that people will argue that when we buy by ourselves, we
won't go in for so much support, HDD space, etc. So that is again
another point for why people should take this offer more seriously.
I know that its a little hard to put up with a government
organisation, because we have been brought up in a way to have very
negative thoughts about it. I think that ELCOT is different. If we are
a little patient (just like we are patient with driver problems in
Linux :D ), we can be happy with this deal.
[0]:
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/featured_notebook7?c=in&cs=indhs1&l=en&s=dhs
[1]:
http://verboselyme.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/dell-offer.pdf
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Aditya Manthramurthy
B. Tech, CSE NIT Trichy
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