4th and 5th training event with M4300

Thanks to our customer's continue support, we have rented out our M4300 to our valued customer for the 4th and 5th time to conduct their Puma Flow training.

These two events took place in Renaisance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur this time and training were conducted on 18 May 09 to 22 May 09 and 25 May 09 to 29 May 09.

As this is not the first and second time the Precision laptop is required, everything runs very smoothly. We have trained up Din to perform the Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4 installation, and training company's engineer, Ms. Rabia came to our office on 15 May 09 to set up their software.

She completed her set up in time and we delivered the notebooks to Renaisance Hotel on 18 May 09 7.30 am. Thanks to Yih Farn who made the on time delivery and set up.

All the notebooks were locked with the Kessinger lock we provided and we like to express our deepest appreciation to the hotel's staff and security for allowing us to leave all the notebooks overnight in the function room and took good care of the notebooks.

After the first week's training, we collected back all the notebooks on Friday evening and redelivered them on 25 May morning 7.30 am. Again a very good job done by Yih Farn.

On 29 May 09 evening, we collected back all of them and this ends the fifth time of rental.


To view the spec of M4300 own by TH IT RESOURCE CENTRE,
pls click: http://www.th-it.com/notebook_for_rent.html

TH IT supplied 64 bits high end 3D notebooks for PumaFlow training for the second time

21 Sep 08 Sunday

At 5.30 pm, Yih Farn was assigned to wait for two French gentlemen who were to install their PumaFlow software into our Dell Precision M4300 again. The software is supplied by famous French company BeicipFranlab.

This is the second time our notebook Dell Precision M4300 featuring a mobile workstation are rented again by the same customer to run their high end 3D graphic software training for one of the renown corporate giant in Malaysia.

Both Nicholas and David arrived sharp on time and all were expecting to have a long night that night. Base on our last experience, we couldn't get the NVidia Quadro Pro FX360 graphic card driver installed in Redhat Linux enterprise 4. This driver is so important to make sure the 3D graphic runs smoothly. During our last installation, it was only successfully installed with Redhat Linux Enterprise 5 (64 bits)

Problem encountered

Not for long, David said he encountered a problem to run one of the very important program, the SIMView. In previous class, the other trainer took about 3 hours to download extra necessary drivers for their program to run smoothly. While we established this fact that RE5 can be used without any problem, both Nicholas and David were having an tense up moment to solve their problem.

Upon their request, Yih Farn tried to run the RE4 installation again. Obviously we are more experience now and coupled with the fact that both Nicholas and David are expert in their program, under their guidelines, we quickly discover new findings on RE4.

Graphic Card driver installation works on RE4

To our surprise, we quickly found out that the graphic card driver can be installed easily and stably on RE4! It seems that we need to select all the options during installation of RE4 to achieve this.

Everyone was so happy because after we have discovered this, it means we can go back home early and sleep early.

Training is done at JW Mariott Hotel, Jln Bukit bintang.

TH IT's support

After 1 unit of the notebook was completely set up by David, we continue to clone the other units with this unit's image. The data was so hugh that each image cloning process lasted about 45 minutes per session! In order to run faster, we eventually changed to gigabits switch. Nonetheless we finished at about 00.30 am that night!

Thanks to the 'Buka Puasa' (break fast dinner) dinner at Mariott Hotel, that it is advantages for both Nicholas and David are coming over to our office to do the installation.

7.30am set up at Mariott Hotel

To make sure every units will be installed and set up probably, so Nicholas requested us to set up at Mariott at 7.30 am. By 7.00 am, Yih Farn was already there and every unit was set up and installed properly without any problem! I am very glad to have the opportunity to work with Yih Farn because he can always made things done properly.

Notebooks supplied:

NOTEBOOK - DELL, PRECISION M4300 C2D 2.2 GHZ.

Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz, 2MB cache, 800MHz), memory 4 GB (2 GB x2) PC2-5300 800MHz memory, 8X DVD Recordable Dual Layer, 160GB SATA HDD (7200 rpm), 15.4" Wide Aspect Ultrasharp(TM) UXGA (1920 x 1200) Display, NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) FX 360M 512MB TurboCache OpenGL PCI-E Graphics, Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945 Dual Band 802.11a/g 54Mbps Wireless Mini Card and Bluetooth, Integrated gigabit Ethernet, 9-cell 85Whr Lithium Ion Primary Battery, WIN XP PRO SP2 64 bits downgradable to Window Vista Business 64 bits.

Supplied by:

TH IT RESOURCE CENTRE SDN BHD
Office Tel: 603-80239232
Office Fax: 603-80234232

Company website: http://www.th-it.com/
For a record of our rental experience: http://www.thitblog.blogspot.com/
For a list of our quality ex-rental product for sales: http://www.thitsales.blogspot.com/

Click here for more information on Puma Flow software supply by BeicipFranlab.

Click here for article on 1st delivery of the same notebooks for Puma Flow training.

TH IT successfully supply 64 bits mobile workstations

New milestone

14 Mar 08 marked yet another date in our history of adding new category of product to our rental asset list. On this date, we have added 10 units of Dell Precision M4300 64 bits notebook to our asset list for rental.

The purchase is for a rental request for 1 week training at JW Mariotte Hotel, Kuala Lumpur from 24 Mar 08 to 28 Mar 08.

Requirement of the training:

The training is meant for a highly advance software called PUMAFLOW and its hardware and software requirements are very high, some of the important features are like:

Intel Core 2 Duo minimum 2 GHz,
4 GB of memory
NVidia Quadro Fx360 512 MB memory graphic card,
Ultra sharp monitor
64 bits hardware and OS support
Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 or 4 with at least kernel 2.6

Work done by TH IT sales and technical teams:

Upon confirmation of order, we have decided to purchase a mobile workstation rather than a desktop workstation. Here, we have chosen Dell Precision M4300 mainly because of their flexibility and excellent price performance quality as well as their execllent support. We placed our order on 14 Mar 08, Friday late evening and we received all the units on Wednesday, 19 Mar 08, around 12 pm. Taken away Saturday and Sunday, Dell delivered our order practically in 3 working days! Our greatest thanks to Dell's sales and support team, especially Ms. Joanne.

On top of the minimum requirement by our customer, we actually decided to increase the value of the laptop by choosing the following additional value:

1. Intel T7500 2.2 GHz
2. Ultra sharp display (1920x1200)
3. MS OFFICE 2007 SBE
4. WIN Vista Business 64 bits downgradable to WIN XP PRO 64 bits


Work through public holiday

Upon received of the notebooks, knowing that the software installation of Reh Hat Linux Enterprise may not be so straight forward, our technical team led by Mr. Chan work on it immediately the next day, eventhough 20 Mar 08 is a public holiday! Red Hat Enterprise 4 was installed quite easily however there was difficulties to install device drivers especially the graphic card driver! Work continued until Friday and yet we couldn't solve the problem! Finally I decided we must call for help!

I am very grateful to Linus and Leong for being so kind to drop by our office at 9.30 pm Friday night to help us look into the problem. Through their persistent effort and expertise, they concluded that Nvidia Quadro FX360 driver cannot be installed correctly on Enterprise 4! Later research found that Dell US site has certified for this model Enterprise 5 only. So, we quickly run a quick installation of Enterprise 5 32 bits and found all drivers can be installed easily!

After checking with our customer's vendor in France and obtained their consent to run their software with Enterprise 5, we then have to start download the 64 bits version of Enterprise 5. By that time, it is 1 am in the morning. As the download takes time, we decided to get some sleep and once again, I would like to express my sincere and grateful thanks to both of my friends, Linus and Leong for their kind support!

On the next day, after the download was completed, we were able to install everything easily. Our delivery on Sunday afternoon remained on time and we delivered the job without any problem!

Picture above showed that all the notebooks have been set up and the trainer and customer representative is working on installing their Pumaflow program.

Quality ex-rental computer sales program:

Those notebooks are offer for sale at a very attractive price immediately after the training, those interested may visit our sales blog at

http://thitsales.blogspot.com/2008/03/dell-precision-m4300-for-sale-best-buy.html

You may also visit TH IT main web pages for more rental information:

http://www.th-it.com/

or contact us at

http://www.th-it.com/contactus

Click here for more information on Puma Flow software supplied by BeicipFranlab from France.

Click here for article on 2nd delivery of the same notebooks for PumaFlow training.