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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