Free Computer & Internet Access for Children aged 7-14 of Low Income Families

only_mee

Not Wales nor Scotland, England only.

Zeldazog

The contact details and information are all at the start of this of this thread, you can jump the details by clicking on "First" at the top or bottom of the page. But IIRC it is England only.

rtho782

People say they are overpriced, but when you think about it....

They have to include Theft insurance for the laptop and dongle, that has to be worth at least £20?

They are including a years mobile broadband at 3GB a month fair use...

According to tmoblie.co.uk, that alone is £165 (possibly more for a 12 month package rather than 18 as per their site... sorry I cant post links!!)

They all include Office 2007, at a cost of around £60

They all include Windows 7 Professional, not Home Premium, so thats at least £20 extra.

They all include Netintelligence for a year, which you may find annoying but is what the government specified, a years licence on this is also around £20.

Given that, there is only £243 or less going towards the actual laptop, this is why the specs aren't amazing.

greatgranny123

we chose no free broadband so got a £400 voucher, comet must be making a nice profit.

l00pyl0u69

just to up date, the forms arrived today, 3 days after phoning, but you do need a childbenefit letter, naming the child you are applying for, they will accept one from dec08, but child benefit, routinley misses the names off the forms, now so you will have to phone them up and ask for one.

gdawn

Hi my son has the Samsung r519,its brilliant & he loves it to bits but we have a problem -dad set it up when we first got it but he has lost the paper he wrote down the parents password on......so my son is limited sometimes to what he can do,phoned them up & they said laptop will need to be sent back to reset to factory settings & it will cost £60.... oh dear can anyone help please......

only_mee

If you press and hold F4 on boot up it will give you options to restore to new.

prowla

The only real gripe I have is with the siteminder (is that what it's called?) software, which renders the laptop nearly useless for web use.
I didn't want to register an account, so I've still got to get around to either removing it or reinstalling Windows.
(I think a chunk of the money pays for that, so that's been a waste!)

only_mee

You can deactivate but you need to register first to get your password.
Totally removed that from my sons.

prowla

only_mee wrote: »

You can deactivate but you need to register first to get your password.
Totally removed that from my sons.

Thanks - maybe I will register...:)