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Anyone recommend me somewhere to buy from?

Looking for somewhere that has a range of different boards with different features as i'm not certain yet what will be required.
 
We use SMARTboards by SMART Technologies at our College, think our supplier would probably be classed as a competitor though :o
 
Smartboards are better than Promethian simply because you aren't restricted to using their pens to interact with the boards. You can use your fingers, the pens that come with the boards...or anything else.

There are plenty of places that can do them, we use a good local retailer. Check SmartTech's website. http://smarttech.com/
 
As someone who has been selling and distributing interactive whiteboards and projectors for 9 years, I wouldn't recommend SMART boards under gunpoint. They are delicate and easily damaged, expensive, and in my personal experience extremely frustrating to use. SMART dominate the market because they pre-date most other manufacturers, and insist on finger-touch technology which many (including myself) find frustrating and inprecise to use.

I sell Hitachi Cambridgeboards to trade customers - extremely tough and durable, they use a pen (which is a writing tool - not your bloody finger) they are far faster and responsive than touchboards, and the software is developed by Cambridge University Press.

Promethean aren't bad either - similarly tough and responsive, software isn't as good as the Hitachi though.
 
I'd agree that boards from SMART are a little fragile, so not ideal in some schools, but they do offer the flexibility of using anything as a writing tool, including a pen.
 
I prefer Activboards to Smartboards, they just seem easier to use and you don't have to mess around picking up different pens.
 
Using this thread to vent:

If another bloody academic uses permenant marker on a bloody interactive whiteboard I'll personally defenestrate them.

*n
 
penski said:
Using this thread to vent:

If another bloody academic uses permenant marker on a bloody interactive whiteboard I'll personally defenestrate them.

*n
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Was it an accident or do you think they are doing it on purpose?

(And university students are supposed to be intelligent ha-ha)
 
Teletraan-82 said:
We use SMARTboards by SMART Technologies at our College, think our supplier would probably be classed as a competitor though :o
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We've fitted LOADS of those in the past.

Let's just say they're a pain to setup! :mad:

We buy ours off a supplier.. so I can't link.
 
In my last school we used promethean and found them brilliant. we ordered directly from them, excellent service. In the school i now work in, we have Smart Boards, and these are better IMO. You can use your fingers on the board, the board rubber is cool, and there are 4 different colour pens, black, red, blue and green. They also stand up well to being used as a white board, as long as you have the correct cleaner.

I would choose Smart Boards over promethean, but promethean are still very good.

:)
 
We use SMART in the college I work for, the latest ones seem very good indeed but I've never tried any other makes. Going to have a look at these Hitachi ones.
 
We use Smart boards here, and at the college I went to a couple of years ago. Cant say a bad thing about them really.
 
both SMART and Promehtean are great. we have quite a few of both. depends on your users really.

SMART are excellent for the fact that you can pick up a pen and write on it without loading a notepad first and you can use your fingers. however if the skin is pierced the board is knackered.

Promethean doesnt have a skin and uses interactive pens to work so are more hard wearing. they are cool. they come with excellent software as well.
 
penski said:
Using this thread to vent:

If another bloody academic uses permenant marker on a bloody interactive whiteboard I'll personally defenestrate them.

*n
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Actually at my university it's the pull-down projector screens that they love to use markers on. Not seen a permanant marker on a Smartboard yet. :D
 
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