Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Aye, probably not the best decision for a corporate world choice. Of
course, in the corporate world you really don't need a new PC unless
you're doing multimedia or development professionally, old cheap parts
will do fine, so the cost savings is low anyway. Whitebox vendors are
still a good option though. I'd argue they're even a better option- if
you buy 200 machines from a company that makes 10K a year, you are a
significant customer to them (2% of their volume) and will get "drop
everything and fix it" level support. Buy 200 from Dell or HP, and they
won't even notice you.
We used a local vendor at a previous company for about 85 PCs. The
problem we ran into was they couldn't get them out the door fast enough,
and deal with warranty issues at the pace we needed. They also weren't
used to dealing with skilled technical staff, so they weren't good about
just sending parts after a short discussion about the problem. I think
this is a good option for a small company that wants the more personal
feel of a local company, but not for companies that have 100 plus
desktops. Continuity is another issue. I can get systems that are
essentially the same for my server room from Dell et al, but from a lot
of the white box vendors you will get what ever parts are being dealt to
them from their vendors. They don't have the leverage to insist on
cases, cpus, memory being on their buying list for long. There are
advantages, but they dwindle as the scale gets larger. I buy most of my
personal computers through local shops. I like to touch things before I
buy them, and just can't do that on the web.
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