Originally Posted by
mudski
Having to fork out just under 2300K for a laptop for my daughter when she goes into year 7 next year. :furious: What makes it worse is the school have got you by the goolies with this too. If you buy it through the school, if anything goes wrong with it, their own IT dept will look at it and give the student a loan laptop. If you BYO, they still will but its not priority so its gets put to the back of the line, and your kid will only get a load laptop if they can spare one. So the one we bought is a measly $500 dearer through the school rather than going to Harvey Normal or the like. FFS!