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Got 4x D630 today. Need more.

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by WaRake, Jan 8, 2009.

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    If the computers aren't being moved around much then you might want to consider the less expensive (and thicker) E5500 which is intended for the less mobile business users. Most of the internal hardware is the same as its more expensive siblings. There's a few people here who have bought the E5xxx and they seem happy.

    John
     
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    There's usually a number of sellers on eBay that can provide the D630 units, for roughly half the price you're looking at. The T8300's might be hard to find as they're relatively recent builds.

    If you can tolerate the platform shift, then the E-series is the way to go though, IMHO. Don't pay top dollar for the old D-series.
     
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    If price is an issue and you are looking at the E series there are a lot of E6400 and E6500 notebooks that have come on to the Dell Outlet site that holds refurbished computers.

    They come with the same warranty options as the brand new ones and the savings can be high. I just got an E4300 from the Outlet and I'm very happy with it. And it shipped the next day since they didn't have to build it. Oh and I saved $1k :D

    E6400:
    http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...line/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb

    E6500:
    http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnline...line/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb
     
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    WaRake Notebook Enthusiast

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    The thing is I get special deals from Dell when I buy more than one computer, so for every computer I buy it gets cheaper, and as this is for a company buying from E-Bay is not an option as we have contracts to follow up.

    But that Dell Outlet seems like something that I might take a closer look at.

    Thanks.
     
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    I also do the same with the disk images (but I use Acronis) - as all the volotile data is automagically copied to our servers.

    PLease note though, if the machines are part of a domain you will need to increase the machine password reset time - otherwise if you leave it too long you will find that the machine won't login to the domain.

    See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216393

    and the registry bits to change are:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters

    It is a REG_DWORD: maximumpasswordage

    It appears to take a value of days.

    The default is 30. Using Regedit, you can modify this entry. If set the base value to be decimal for easy reading unless you just LOVE hex. I set mine to 7300 so I should be good for a tad under 20 years. I don't know what the max is or what happens if you set it to 0.
     
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    WaRake Notebook Enthusiast

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    All the computers in the company is connected to servers and the servers are connected to a main server located at where I mostly work, I have though never had any problems with the ability to log in, and as we have a rather high securety the passwords must be changed once a month, and also they cannot be the same as the 3 other passwords earlier, it also locks the user out if the password is typed in wrong 3times so if someone were to know one of your passwords its unlikely that they will get access to their data.
    You got to love modern technology ;) We are thinking about implementing those password Authenticators (small thing you push a button on and gives a generated number) allong with their password, as I myself love having high securety systems, and I always want to update.

    Speaking of update, we are soon to change out the Dell Latitude 120L with something new, as the 3 years insurance is about to expire (this summer), anyone have any tips of what we should buy next?
     
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    Please be aware, that the password which I told you about isn't the user login password - it is the computer password which is set between the server and the computer itself - the user never has any say in what that password is. That password is regenerated automatically by your computer on a regular basis - and if you restore an old image after the password has been changed then that PC will not be able to login to the domain - you will need to remove it from the domain and re-add it.
     
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    Hmm, I have never had any problems with that either, as we have ghosted tons and tons of computers all in the domain with no problems like this, it might be that we use the img-setup that re-packs the install of the computer, and that we have a unattended install process so the user does not have to do anything, that will probably log the computer onto the domain again by itself.
     
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