Business & education
We've done this at a hundred machines a day
Most computer shops will tell you they can handle a bulk order. We built a purpose-made testing and distribution line for one, ran it for two years, and shipped a hundred fully configured laptops a day to students right across Australia.
100
laptops built, tested and shipped per day
24hr
delivery Australia-wide
2 years
the programme ran at full volume
3,500
student mailboxes hosted, plus 500 staff
What each machine actually got
The reason the programme worked wasn't the volume. It was that every laptop left here genuinely finished — nothing deferred to the college's IT staff, and nothing left for the student to work out.
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Tested properly, every single unit
Not a spot check on a sample — 100% of machines. Full memory test, CPU and stability testing, and a drive health check before anything gets loaded onto it. A dead-on-arrival laptop costs a college far more than it costs us to catch it here.
- 2
Imaged and licensed individually
Custom software load per the client's specification, with licensed software activated and configured on each machine — not a generic image someone has to fix later.
- 3
Set up for the person opening the box
Individual email account programmed per machine, and the clock set to the right time zone for where it was going. Small thing; it's the difference between a student working in five minutes and a support call.
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Self-registering on first boot
We wrote a first-run program in house that activated the laptop and reported back to the college the moment the student powered it on and connected. The college could see their fleet arriving in real time, without chasing anyone.
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Out the door within 24 hours
Built, tested, loaded and delivered anywhere in Australia inside a day, at a hundred machines a day, sustained.
Beyond the hardware
The same programme included hosted email for 3,500 students and 500 staff Australia-wide, with remote management and support behind it. Supplying the machines is the visible part; keeping several thousand people working afterwards is the part that decides whether a rollout was a success.
The contract ended when the government changed the rules on private colleges supplying laptops as part of a course — the programme stopped because the funding model did, not because the work faltered. We still supply Latrobe College today on a smaller scale, and the line could be stood back up at any size.
What we can take on
- Bulk laptop and desktop supply, from a dozen to a daily production run
- Standard operating environment imaging and per-device licensing
- Full pre-deployment hardware testing and burn-in
- Asset tagging, enrolment and first-boot reporting
- Hosted email, remote management and ongoing support
- Warranty handled by us, locally, instead of a manufacturer queue
Every machine still carries our standard warranty — return to base, whole-of-machine, no chasing manufacturers yourself.
Awards & accreditations
Recognised locally
Young Entrepreneur of the Year2015
Redlands Business Excellence Awards — won by Brett, the owner, who is still the person building machines on the bench.
Redlands retail and business awards
Winners more than once, and nominated every year we entered — voted for by the community we serve.
Capalaba store nominations
Our former Capalaba store was nominated several years running as well.
Accredited
Microsoft certified technicians
On the bench in both workshops.
Intel certified technicians
Build and diagnostic accreditation.
Got a rollout coming up?
Tell us the numbers and the deadline. You'll talk to the person who built the last one, not an account manager.