| The other thing to look at is software. At 3rd S's school, the school had purchased site licenses for all the Microsoft and a lot of other software and if you ordered through the school, that plus the school access software came loaded on the computer free. And when his hard drive crashed, the replacement from Dell showed up the next day with all the software already there, too. If you bought a computer separately you had to get in line at the school to get the software loaded. BTW we have the "covers everything" extended service plan and highly recommend it for notebooks. |