Trying to get sponsorship so we can get the kids new laptops

One issue we had on Thursday was the participants computers.

Half of them crashed running programs like minecraft or spore(including one of our dells), which are not very intense games. They would have no chance of running something like Opensim. Not many of them were actually capable of running two screens either. Very few if any of them would be capable of doing something like video editing. Most looked like old work laptops from a parent.

The laptops we have are on their last legs. Two crash regularly.

One other issue with us helping was that many of the PCs were running XP or vista, meaning that for on young person it took us half an hour to get her computer online(we still don't know why) and for many others using the dual screen or installing software was more painful than it could be.

Today I contacted the following companies asking them for support;

1. NEC
2. IBM
3. Fujitsu
4. Steelseries
5. Razor
6. Dick Smith
7. Harvey Norman
8. Apple
9. Asus
10. Officeworks
11. Pioneer Computers
12. Logitech