DSA Upgrade Confusion

So the original given a quote of £325 for a laptop. I asked the company if I could be provided with laptop with windows 7 or 10 rather than windows 8. I was told that I would have to pay the difference of £38.60 for a laptop with windows 7 but after I did my revised quote with me paying for the "upgrade", the amount from dsa towards the laptop when down by £49. So the laptop I am getting is costing £314.6, the £276 from dsa plus the £38.60 I paid which is £10 pounds under the original quotes. Anyone able to explain this?

Reply 1

urbanlocations

19

I have just been awarded the basic laptop how much does it cost to upgrade to an apple?

Reply 2

tiredteddy

5

You should ring them up and ask why you can't have windows 10 as it is a free upgrade at the present for windows 7 or 8.1 users. The reason may turnout to be that the laptop they want to sell you is not compatible with windows 10. In such a case I would advise SFE that this laptop is unsuitable and either ask them to change suppliers or find one your self. I think finding your own is better.

I did change my supplier some time ago it took a little while and I had to find my own. I can recommend Hamer Technology who supplied the tower I work on. Its the fastest i5 that was available at the time for advanced computing batch runs.

Reply 3

salsify

Original post by tiredteddy

You should ring them up and ask why you can't have windows 10 as it is a free upgrade at the present for windows 7 or 8.1 users. The reason may turnout to be that the laptop they want to sell you is not compatible with windows 10. In such a case I would advise SFE that this laptop is unsuitable and either ask them to change suppliers or find one your self. I think finding your own is better.

I did change my supplier some time ago it took a little while and I had to find my own. I can recommend Hamer Technology who supplied the tower I work on. Its the fastest i5 that was available at the time for advanced computing batch runs.

The reason that the DSA does not automatically recommend Windows 10 is that some of the specialist software does not work on it yet. best to wait until the glitches have been ironed out and the assistive software is adapted to Windows 10. The Windows upgrade is free anyway.

Reply 4

tiredteddy

5

Original post by salsify

The reason that the DSA does not automatically recommend Windows 10 is that some of the specialist software does not work on it yet. best to wait until the glitches have been ironed out and the assistive software is adapted to Windows 10. The Windows upgrade is free anyway.

Only until July then it will be to pay for. However some suppliers are sending out laptops that they know can't be upgraded to windows 10. So best to specify that the hardware is upgradable have windows 8.1 installed and download the free update and check the specialist software you need for windows 10 compatibility.

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