where to buy a new system.

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Nov 29 00:56:00 EST 2005


On Nov 29, 2005, at 00:21, Ben Scott wrote:

>   $800?  Forget about Linux, I don't know any major brand that will
> provide a decent Windoze box with a 3-year contract for $800.  :)

$700 at Dell before coupons and specials.   Yours and my definitions of 
"decent" are different than the typical SMB customer.  None of my 
bigger (>$10M) clients are buying business desktops for more than $900 
today.  An IBM like this:

   http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?Sku=6018931

is very popular, for example.

>   But
> Pogo will sell a real nice box for:
>
>   $1107    base system (A64 3000+, 512 MB, 120 GB, CD/DVD-RW)
> + $ 390    2-year on-site service
> + $ 150    XP Pro
> = $1647    TOTAL

Yeah, so almost double what they're willing to spend.  They'd rather 
store the data on a server and swap out failed PC's at the assumed 18% 
rate.  And yes, I know they spent $3K on machines just a few years ago 
and thought that was a good deal...

-Bill
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