DSA laptop?

Basically, the woman who arranged my dsa lied to me and told me I wouldn't have to pay £200 for my equipment. I can't find any info anywhere but is the £200 for all the equipment or just for a laptop? Everywhere I look it says the £200 is for a computer.

Thanks

Im getting quite a bit of equipment and the laptop they offered me is at least 4 years old as it is windows 7. I don't feel justified in spending 200 on something so old when I could get a brand new laptop for just £50 more. I asked for upgrades and they said it would be on top of the £200 which made me think it was for everything.

Basically, the woman who arranged my dsa lied to me and told me I wouldn't have to pay £200 for my equipment. I can't find any info anywhere but is the £200 for all the equipment or just for a laptop? Everywhere I look it says the £200 is for a computer.

Thanks

I didn't have to pay anything towards my laptop... Have you upgraded it?

From September you have to pay the first £200.

For any other equipment, you don't have to pay anything.

Only SFE students have to pay the first £200, SFW (Wales) students don't. Specs are set out by a framework document so they cannot supply a Windows 7 machine, it has to be Windows 8.1.

What is this about SFW not having to pay, does that mean the welsh gov will cover the full cost of the laptop?

If you upgrade to a mac air it will cost you £517 with a £200 contribution. In total: £715?!

Do you think this is crazy?

They didn't really communicate the prices well with me either but it is £200. Unless you get an upgrade like I did which is even more.

what upgrade did you get and how much was the cost>

as I am thinking about an upgrade.

I got a Toshiba Satellite (they're crap, really flimsy, it is already falling apart and I'm very good at looking after my tech but I got it for the screen definition) it was about £450 and I'm pretty sure they made my dad pay the full amount. They're awful at explaining what an upgrade actually is. If you don't want the laptop they suggest, which I think is even worse than the one I ended up with, they just make you pay for the full amount which means everything except the laptop is being given to you free of charge but the laptop price is paid (by you) in full.

I realised this immediately after asking for my first laptop choice which was a MacBook Pro. They said you have to pay for the full amount. So I downgraded to a Toshiba, again, if it's not what they picked, you're paying the full amount. So basically I got lots of things I didn't want or need but were pushed on me, for free. And the one thing I wanted a discount on, I paid for fully, just through them.