You may not know but over the last year or two but HardSoft Computers  have actively been making IT leasing available to businesses in Ireland and Scandinavia. This was supported with the launch of our Irish Website www.hardsoft.ie .

To Irish customers the offerings are almost identical to those available in the UK with the exception of the payment is in Euros (arranged via a Dublin office). HardSoft are an Authorised Apple Reseller for Ireland.   If you are interested to see what we can offer you standard online ordering can be done and you can contact us info@hardsoft.ie for all your Apple needs.

For anyone in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands then we can lease Apple Macs to businesses with little issue at all as long as you are an established company with 2 years trading history. The Lease warranty still works the same with us covering costs of collection, repair and return under the terms of your Lease.  Or you can go to your local Apple Store as all Macs have a worldwide warranty. We can have Keyboards changed to suit national requirement  at no extra costso we are well positioned to handle most concerns you might have from sourcing your new Apple kit from a UK Reseller.

European but not in Eire or Scandinavia – then contact sales@hardsoft.co.uk with your nationality and we will research the possibilities of leasing to your country.

Firstly its easy at HardSoft – We have taken a unique approach by being the Authorised Supplier of the PC or Laptop as well as the Licensed Credit broker. WE ARE A ONE STOP SOLUTION. By being in control of both the equipment supply and the lease finance we can offer tailored solutions and support. It also makes us far cheaper- we only take one bit of the cherry !

‘Flexi-Lease’ by HardSoft is the fusion of this and over 25 years experience  and is the unique alternative to the purchasing of your IT.

-       We include 3 years warranty and support and have our own team of engineers.

-       Guaranteed ownership at the end  for just £1.

-       The option to Upgrade and keep the old kit ! without paying anymore per month. We call it our ‘Two For One’ option and is exclusive to our lease schemes.

PC’s and Laptops are available to lease from Lenovo, Toshiba,  HP, Fujitsu and Sony. We are Authorised Resellers for these and many other PC manufacturers. Our Network solutions include HP Proliant Servers and all are installed and supported by our own team of certified engineers.  HardSoft  flexibility means we can offer leases from 1 to 4 years, monthly, quarterly or annual payments, by invoice or direct debit. We can defer payments, or can accept a deposit to reduce the future rental payments. Software and licensing can also be leased. Almost infinite options on the way you wish to structure the finance and payments and a choice of over 250 laptops or 35 All In Ones or 55 PC’s PLUS Apple Macs as well !

Finance is available to Start Ups and those with difficult credit scenarios. If you want a confidential chat for a frank view on whether leasing is available to you call us.

We are proud to start this year as an Authorised Apple iPad Reseller . Though we have been offering them since launch this new status means more support from Apple for HardSoft and in real terms better leasing terms to businesses. Discounts on two or more iPads is now available.

An Apple iPad 2 Lease from HardSoft Computers includes a full 3 year warranty and comprehensive insurance cover, which covers you from loss, theft and accidental damage. So whether you drop it on the floor or spill a glass of water on it, you are covered. Arguably the best tablet computer on the market at this current moment in time, with its high-tech specs and features such as iCloud, FaceTime and HD video recording, could the iPad 2 be the future of portable computing?

As an Apple iPad Authorised Reseller, the Apple iPad 2 is available on a Flexi-Lease from HardSoft Computers.The iPad 2 is available on the same Flexi-Lease as all other Apple Mac equipment, with the 2 year RETURN, RETAIN, RENEW option. Just to detail the reality of our flexibility, after 24 months you can RETURN the equipment and cancel the agreement. You can also RENEW into a new lease; we will contact you and offer you the Mac at a similar rental cost. You can RETAIN the equipment at the expiry of the lease for a one off fee of £1 to pay.

HardSoft Computers can also offer the iPad 2 on a shorter lease term. For example, you can take a 1 year lease on the iPad 2, and just return it at the expiry of the lease; it’s as simple as that. With all options available and starting at only £4.55 per week (including warranty and insurance), please give us a call on 01279 718 693. Discounts start for 2 or more units.

HardSoft have a wide range of PC’s and All-in-One machines available on a three year lease for business users that also includes warranty andoptional insurance . With brands such as HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Sony we can find a PC to fit your needs. Being a HP 2012 Preferred Partner, HardSoft Computers are particularly fond of HP PC’s. The HP Pro 3400 Mini Tower comes with Core i3 or Core i5 processors and can allow up to 8GB RAM, which makes them powerful enough to handle your day to day workplace computing. Starting at only £3.95 per week on a business lease including three years warranty. These are your perfect office PC , plus this month they come with FREE Microsoft Office 2010.

A more powerful option is the HP Elite 7300 Mini Tower… The HP 7300 boasts a Quad Core i7 processor with a 1TB Hard Drive and up to 32GB RAM. If you are in the design or CAD industry, we also have machines to suit you!

The Lenovo Thinkstation E30 Mini Tower for example, comes with the brand new 2nd Generation Xeon processor and up to 32GB RAM- with a choice of graphics cards. The range of HP Graphics Workstations that also feature the Nvidia Maximus graphics can be leased.

All, plus Apple Macs, are available on a Lease from HardSoft Computers;  with our unique 18 month upgrade option, whereby you can upgrade your equipment to brand new equipment, halfway through your lease whilst keeping your existing machines!  You can retain your equipment at the expiry of your lease for a fixed fee of £1. Leasing from HardSoft is essentially an all inclusive option that is great for cash flow but also tax efficient.

At HardSoft we offer more…As STANDARD on all Apple Macs leased from HardSoft we provide a three year warranty inclusive of all parts and labour. If your Mac is faulty we offer, at no cost,  a ‘Collect and Return’  service; whereby our courier will be sent in the next day after reporting a fault and will return this to us for repair. This has an average turnaround back to you of 4-5 days. Also included is telephone support and we offer a remote diagnosis and fault repair service. The normal Apple warranty is just one year and Apple offer ‘AppleCare‘ as an extra option. AppleCare is not as good as our Standard warranty and we can offer even more …

If you need more uptime then we have a Loan Mac option should yours be needed to returned to ourselves for repair. As long as we know by 4pm  we can ship a loan unit for next day delivery. The faulty Apple  Mac will be collected on the same ‘collect & return’ basis as our standard warranty. Alternatively you can collect a loan Mac from us or one of our branches and drop yours off. This option is available at just 80 pence extra per week on a three year lease.

If you want to extend these three year warranty option then we offer FIVE year ‘collect and return’ warranty as well.  The warranty can be transferred to another party should you sell the Mac after the lease finishes.

HardSoft have been established for over 25 years  and have a team of both internal and field engineers and offer enhanced warranty options. All engineers are trained and regularly attend Apple certification courses. (In the first two months of this year we will be taking over 70 Apple exams and numerous Apple technical courses ! ) HardSoft engineers are available for ad-hoc visits for training and support services should you need help.

Also available at extra cost is an all inclusive Insurance against accidental damage and theft  with worldwide cover. A worrying truth is that over

10% of all laptops will be stolen within its lifetime. Our all- inclusive policy carries zero excess to pay and is backed by Aegis Insurance. Claims are handled by ourselves and there is minimal paperwork to process a speedy claim.

Most Business insurance policies have a maximum claim for a computer – for which the higher values on Macs usually exceed.

Please email info@hardsoft.co.uk for our full policy details or how to lease your next Apple Mac with all the advantages not just of a better warranty but also of flexibility , cash flow, tax etc etc etc.

At HardSoft Computers we pride ourselves on the flexibility of our Lease Packages and ability to accommodate the needs of our customers even when those needs aren’t always something your average Lease Company would be comfortable providing.

As is common in the industry finance funders can be uncomfortable leasing more Software than 20% of the total value of an order meaning you can’t always get every user in your office the latest Mac or PC with the most up to date design software.

At HardSoft thanks to the special relationship we share with our funders we can offer at least 50% software leasing for New starts, Sole Traders and Partnerships, allowing you to ensure every one of your new Apple  iMac’s, Servers or PC’s  can be leased with its very own copy of Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium for example. Its £9.50 per week on a three year lease. It’s not just a ‘ boxed ‘ product we can lease but also software licensing as well. Microsoft MOLP licensing is available for any Microsoft software including Windows Server.

To take this further if you are a 3 Year trading company there is a good chance we can offer you a 100% Software lease, so if those Quark xPress and Adobe Licenses just aren’t in the budget for 2012 but a new project dictates you have it call us today about Software leasing and see how we can help.

HardSoft Computers are Approved Resellers of Adobe, Quark, Nemetschek (Vectorworks), Microsoft, Kerio, Apple , Sophos and Avid to name but a few…HardSoft are a one stop shop for the supply and leasing of your new software. Not sure if we provide what you are looking for email ryan@hardsoft.co.uk

If you are after something a bit more sleek and stylish, All-in-Ones seem to be the ideal alternative to the seperate PC and Mini Tower option.

The Sony Vaio L22Z1E is a favourite to lease  at HardSoft; with a 24” Full HD LED Touchscreen display and wireless keyboard and mouse. However, as it boasts so much in design, you may ask the question “does it lose performance?” Well the answer to that is, no it doesn’t. With a 1TB Hard Drive, Blu-Ray and 1GB Graphics Card, the Sony Vaio L22Z1E offers amazing design AND i7 performance. At £13.50 per week on a Flexi-Lease from HardSoft Computers, it would be rude not to!

An alternative and a cheaper All In One option would be the Lenovo All-in-One machines, M71Z (20″ screen) and M90Z (23″ Touch screen). Starting at £5.25 per week on a three year lease these are either Core i3 and Core i5 processors and 4GB Ram as a minimum, these are more of your ‘office’ type All-in-One machines with Windows 7 professional. Beware cheaper All in Ones do NOT feature a Touch screen.

The ultimate AIO though is the Apple iMac and we can offer this with Windows 7 Professional. Many PC customers who need speed and style turn to the iMac running Windows 7 under Apple BootCamp or Parrallels Desktop. The Parallels 7 software with Windows 7 Professional and Intego Anti-Virus cover for both the Windows and Lion OS  is at £1.50 per week on a three year lease.

HardSoft also offer All in One PC’s from Samsung, Asus and the HP Pavilion. All are available on a Flexi-Lease from HardSoft computers, with our unique 18 month renewal and upgrade option, whereby you can upgrade your PC to a new PC, halfway through your lease whilst keeping your existing ! Leasing can make higher end computers more affordable, hence why our most popular units are generally the most expensive.

2012 looks to be the year of the Ultra Books. In the same vein as the lightweight Apple Macbook Air, all PC manufacturers have something new tooffer.   Apple alone have increased sales of their Macbook Air (UltraBook)  by some 40% in the last 3 months and the PC suppliers are looking to capitalise on this explosion of this new market sector.

Briefly a laptop can be qualified as an Ultrabook if it weighs less than 1.4Kgs has an SSD drive and uses the new lower power Intels CPUs that allow longer battery life…..

Whilst normally quite expensive using our Hardsoft Flexi lease you can obtain an Apple Macbook Air 11” with Core i5 1.6GHz CPU, 64GB SSD and 2GB Ram from only £ 7.70 a week and the Toshiba Portege Z830 13” with Core i5-2557M CPU, 128GB SSD, 4GB Ram for only £ 10.95 a week; the stunning looking Samsung Series 9 900X3A is a Core i5-2467M machine with a 13.3” LED and 4GB ram, weighing only XXXX  this is available on a Flexi Lease for £ 10.80 a week, and for the month of January all include FREE Microsoft Office on either Mac or PC.  Other Ultrabooks available to lease include the Lenovo Ideapad –with i7 CPU and the Asus Zenbook which was recently featured on ‘The Gadget Show’. Others from Sony and HP are Coming Soon..

If you don’t want something as small and light and need greater power and screen size then HardSoft can lease you various 14” and 15” laptops……….and even larger 17” laptops with greater power and full connectivity into your network.  In this market the best spec and price is from Hewlett Packard offering the Probook 4730s an Intel Core i5-2450M with 640GB HDD, 4GB Ram and 1GB ATi Radeon HD 6470m Graphics Card for only £ 6.30 a week.  HardSoft have larger screen laptops from Acer, Sony and Toshiba. The Apple Macbook Pro 17” Quad Core i7 2.4GHz is very popular with designers and starts at £ 17.90.

Hardsoft offer all levels of laptops to suit your needs from Apple, HP, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba; packaged on a tax efficient Flexi Lease scheme means you can get the machine of your choice for only one months outlay.

Leasing includes three years warranty and there are options for insurance against damage and theft. Call us now to explore which machine is best for you.

Apple’s high spec goliath, the Mac Pro, has not had a spec upgrade now for nigh on 18 months. This has meant some reluctant creative professionals have looked elsewhere in the Apple line up to satisfy a need for speed. As such the 27” iMac with a 3.4GHz i7 processer, is our most popular leased iMac.

Identifying this HardSoft have looked for ways to improve the spec  further above and beyond what else is available on the market. With the advent of 8GB Ram Chips the iMac is now capable of supporting 32GB Ram, adding just £2.95 + VAT per week to our three year flexi- lease….who is missing the Mac Pro now?  These options are not on the Apple Store.

What about an SSD coupled with your traditional hard drive. Hardsoft offer the option of a traditional 512GB SSD for just £5.95 +VAT per week on our 3 year lease. Also available is the Seagate Momentus Hybrid XT drive as a boot option with a 2TB SATA second drive. However that’s not all HardSoft also offer the superfast OWC Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G solid state drives which offer read/write speeds exceeding 500MB/s; the range starts at 50GB for £4.70 + VAT per week going up to 400GB at £15.80 + VAT at per week on  lease. At those prices they aren’t cheap but there is no other SSD or hard drive available on the market that come close to those speeds…… Basically we can offer several alternative paths to the Apple Store to get more speed on the Apple 27”- i7-3.4GHz iMac.

Also available is the Graphics upgrade on the iMac to 2GB. As an Authorized Apple Reseller , HardSoft Computers are happy to lease you an Apple Mac Pro or an i7-3.4GHz iMac, but now you know that it’s not just spec which should guide your choice….Such is the popularity of these bespoke 27” iMacs that we are keeping them as stock and can confidently quote a 3-4 day delivery.

Available as an additional cost option is now an upgrade of our 3 year warranty to include a  ’Loan Apple Mac’ option. The normal HardSoft warranty when leasing an Apple Mac is a three year ‘collect and return’ service that is inclusive of all parts and labour. For customers who cannot afford any downtime for an additional 80 pence per week on a three year lease we will ship a loan Mac for next business day delivery – providing we can identify it as broken before 3pm. We will pick up the faulty Mac at your convenience either when we deliver the loan Mac or we can leave it for a few days should you want to try and transfer any data .

Also available as part of our lease options on Apple Macs is an option for an upgrade of the standard 3 years to Five years with the Loan Mac option at an additional £1.95 per week. This upgraded warranty is transferable should you sell your Apple Mac after the lease has finished. Note that for faulty iMacs we will be providing as a loan unit an Apple 17″ MacBook Pro with 8GB Ram. Loan Apple Macs will come with Office 2011 for Mac and Windows 7 Pro configured under Boot Camp and a 30 day use version of Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium – which is also available to lease incidentally.

If you need further details on this new Mac warranty option when leasing an Apple Mac then please contact us.HardSoft Computers has been established since 1984 and are an Apple Authorised Reseller that specialises in leasing of the entire range of Apple Macs, software and third party options over a three year period with flexible finance upgrades available. Insurance against damage/theft is also available on all Apple Macs.