where to buy a new system.
Benjamin Scott
dragonhawk at iname.com
Tue Nov 29 01:55:27 EST 2005
On Nov 29 at 12:55am, Bill McGonigle 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.
Yah, if you buy a Dimension. The OptiPlex's cost a bit more, and don't
have the Christmas coupons. OTOH, I said OptiPlex support was limited...
*shudder*
> Yours and my definitions of "decent" are different than the typical SMB
> customer.
Certainly. Everybody's different. But this started up around somebody
looking for good Linux box, which is already *way* outside 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.
That's pretty similar to the OptiPlex's I recommend for general purpose
use. Except I work in the small business area, where we can't amortize
purchased spares, so the NBD support contracts are typically worth it.
About half the cost of most new PCs I get involved with these days goes to
Microsoft, anyway. Windows XP Pro license. Office Pro license. Windows
CAL. Exchange CAL. Eeesh. At retail list, IIRC, that would be $300 + $450
+ $35 + $75 = $860!
>> But Pogo will sell a real nice box for ... ... $1647 TOTAL
>
> Yeah, so almost double what they're willing to spend.
Well, I was trying to make the Dell vs the Pogo as close to
apples-to-apples (pardon the pun WRT the other thread) as possible. That
meant equivalent hardware, which meant a bigger disk and high-end graphics
card. If you brought some volume, I'm sure Pogo would be willing to do
semi-custom builds.
> They'd rather store the data on a server ...
Me too. :)
> and swap out failed PC's at the assumed 18% rate.
If that's the case, why do they need a support contract?
> And yes, I know they spent $3K on machines just a few years ago and thought
> that was a good deal...
:) Why, I remember when etc., etc.
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Ben <dragonhawk at iname.com>
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