After our AGM yesterday (lols, myself the wife and our accountant) I have to spend a few grand on computer stuff for work before June 30. Buying it now rather than waiting is good sense for tax reasons. Each item needs to be less than 1k in value, and needs to have an obvious place in a software development environment (so no $800 surround sound kits).

What would you get? I'm looking into portable storage for backups and software licensing at the moment, maybe a nice 2nd screen for my workstaion in the office.

Get yourself one of these babies........good fast cheap network storage.
http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=8

Umart sells them for $899. Grab 5 750gb HDD for $140 each and you got a nice NAS.

Dell 24"'s are about $800.

Couple of them :D

Maybe some external storage... something like this... Clicky

Seconding the thecus

yeah, it looks pretty sweet... screw the buffalo thing.

Yeh that Thecus looks verrry nice - notice they have them on umart.

Umart still the go for inernets buying in QLD?

so no $800 surround sound kits

Ugh...last I heard you were developing software to test surround sound systems as a side job weren't you? :p

I 1000% recommend if you're gonna start a business then do it in a field you have interest in. Being able to legitimately buy shiny nice new computer toys as a 100% write-off from gross and claim back the GST is awesome. Can basically think of it as about half price compared to buying it out of your regular take-home pay!

I imagine it would be less cool if I was buying cleaning equipment and as a side benefit got a really nice clean s***ter at home.

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I wouldn't mind a solid gold toilet, heavily discounted due to tax perks off course.

Maybe I should start up a crapper business.

that buffalo thing looks like f***in ass, y would u get a 7.5kg 1tb external drive that takes up so much space... looks f***ing s*** and isnt space friendly.

um... it comes with 4 HDD's in it... its not portable.

Man up, 7.5kgs is luggable!

Yeh I have one of those things on my keychain

Trog is so hard.

You could grab some 802.11n gear and tell me if its any good? :D

Umart is ok.

I always check qcgo and msy tho.

qcgo?

Queensland Computer Group Owns.