No - every situation isn't different. That $50 x 2.5K machines will pay for around 12 techs. That's nowhere near enough to support a non-standard fleet. Let alone the cost of the engineering effort to certify builds, track this in CMDB, package drivers, storage/distribution of drivers out via SCCM, the LD from failing to meet SLAs for repair TAT etc. Enterprises do with HP/Dell/Acer/Lenovo for good reasons.
Cheers Ken From: Ray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2012 10:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite corporate PCs? Obviously every situation is different. I look at $50 savings per machines x 2.5k/month as a significant savings, enough so that I could buy extras. I'm usually less concerned about IT "aggravation" than getting the end user up and running as fast as possible. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 4:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite corporate PCs? I have ~80k client machines - replace 2.5k/month. We have a couple of the big vendors as suppliers. Obviously we're not going to a local business for our supply. But even when I was in smaller places where people would buy machines from one of the local vendors - you couldn't get the same technology for more than 12 months (and often less). The motherboard, NIC, video card, sound card - something would change. Then new drivers would have to be put into the standard build, tested, distributed etc. And that all consumes valuable tech time that could be spent doing something else. Not worth it to save $50 on a PC Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
