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

andyfrank · 24 March 2010 at 6:43PM

gee wish i was working on commison for positive IT lol

tia1803 · 24 March 2010 at 6:49PM

thank you for all your advise..have just ordered from positive IT and gone for the r519 as recommended!!!
a huge thank you again for all your help!!!

if i may add a bit of help to everyone which i hope you find useful...i know from this company you do not get all the educational software but i have come across a fab site that you can get it from for free!!!

hope it helps someone.....http://www.educational-freeware.com/

andyfrank · 24 March 2010 at 6:56PM

tia1803 wrote: »

thank you for all your advise..have just ordered from positive IT and gone for the r519 as recommended!!!
a huge thank you again for all your help!!!

if i may add a bit of help to everyone which i hope you find useful...i know from this company you do not get all the educational software but i have come across a fab site that you can get it from for free!!!

hope it helps someone.....http://www.educational-freeware.com/

the free educational software that u get from Bli isnt as good as it sounds
i thought you would get it all as disc form so you could install and unistall as its needed , we have a 13 year old who dont need early learning programmes , and we have a 3 year old , who in about 18 months time would have benefited from it , if it had been disc form i would have ordered from them .... just glad i didnt thou with the reports i read on here after ordering from positive IT ... plus it would have prob slowed the laptop down so much software that wasnt being used at the time ...think its rather silly to put it all on , if you have to format you prob lose it all too

tia1803 · 24 March 2010 at 7:03PM

andyfrank wrote: »

the free educational software that u get from Bli isnt as good as it sounds
i thought you would get it all as disc form so you could install and unistall as its needed , we have a 13 year old who dont need early learning programmes , and we have a 3 year old , who in about 18 months time would have benefited from it , if it had been disc form i would have ordered from them .... just glad i didnt thou with the reports i read on here after ordering from positive IT ... plus it would have prob slowed the laptop down so much software that wasnt being used at the time ...think its rather silly to put it all on , if you have to format you prob lose it all too

if you look on the site i found there are things to suit all ages and sure both your kids will find something useful on there

outofmoney · 24 March 2010 at 7:54PM

Having looked at the software BLi are offering and that Sherston make and comparing it to others, including the ones free to download, there is a BIG difference.

If you go to the Sherston website you can sample loads of the games.

If they could guarantee me delivery within a week I would definitely order from them.....but since they probably can't.....

gohan2091 · 24 March 2010 at 8:41PM

andyfrank wrote: »

i wasnt quite sure as i thought the duel core that made it faster
when my tech friend looked atnd advised me he said 2gb was better than one and duel core was better than single ...im not very tech lol but learning daily , quite enjoying this forum picking up little clues and tips along the way , but i am a women and know how to spot the best buys ;-)

A Dual Core processor is better than a Single Core when you are using your processor for mulitple things at the same time e.g installing two different applications at once. If you had a single core, that core would try install both applications all on it's own at once, resulting in much longer waiting times. With multiple cores, it is much faster because you can do two things at once.

More RAM is better up until a point. My uncle has 8GB of RAM in his computer, where as I only have 4GB. My uncle has no need for 8GB at the moment, so he wasted his money. 8GB would be extremely useful for major video editing or 3D modelling.