Buying Desktop PCs

[House]

Where do you guys normally buy desktop PCs?

I am looking at buying 45 desktop PCs, with monitors, keyboards, mice and Windows 7 O/S's this week.

 

[NomNom]

Normally just build them as it works out much cheaper.

You can buy branded pre-built Pc's though from a few online stores.

http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/built-pcs-c-48.html

If you're in Durban I'll help you build them

 

[CataclysmZA]

I'd have a long look at Dell desktops with on-site warranties. The OS is bundled in and makes the price a bit cheaper. All that's left is doing all the setup on the one and then deploying the image to the other desktops because the license activates through the motherboard's matching serial number.

If you build them all yourself, you'd best pickup the phone and call Microsoft and arrange to speak to a volume license consultant, you'd be saving yourself a lot of cash and it'd be easier instead of trying to keep track of license installs and whatnot.

 

[F1 Fan]

Where do you guys normally buy desktop PCs?

I am looking at buying 45 desktop PCs, with monitors, keyboards, mice and Windows 7 O/S's this week.

Where are you based?

 

[sajunky]

Giving advice to a dealer:
Never offer to your clients obsolete equipment (the stuff many distrubutors put on special like this recent Acer Laptop)). Assuming customer is cost conscious, is expecting from you cost effective solution. The best value is 10% above the ground level. It will give the latest hardware from the mainstream product range and mimimum problems for yourself.
This is my 2c.

 

[HavocXphere]

I current PC build is Rebeltech (mostly), Esquire (SSD & HDD & mouse) and Wootware (RAM).

 

[])ragon_\/oid]

Giving advice to a dealer:
Never offer to your clients obsolete equipment (the stuff many distrubutors put on special like this recent Acer Laptop)). Assuming customer is cost conscious, is expecting from you cost effective solution. The best value is 10% above the ground level. It will give the latest hardware from the mainstream product range and mimimum problems for yourself.
This is my 2c.

Well, who buys without doing research these days?

Op, if you need to, get an account from Rectron, as it might be a bit cheaper in the long run. And I agree, with 45 desktops, rather go for volume licencing.

 

[ponder]

I'd have a long look at Dell desktops with on-site warranties.

This ^^ or anyone else that does the same. Get the 3-yr onsite warranty deal. By the time the warranty has expired the PC's have been depreciated to the point where you simply write them off.

 

[jambai]

Make sure you have nothing to do with Sahara IE the Guptas

 

[CataclysmZA]

By the time the warranty has expired the PC's have been depreciated to the point where you simply write them off.

And the best thing about that is, if the machines have been taken care of (regular cleaning, rust prevention, connected to a UPS), you wipe the hard drives and then sell them off for R1500 a pop with the screen included. People will snap them up if they're looking for a budget machine or a roll-out on their network and you've netted back R67,500.

 

[sajunky]

Well, who buys without doing research these days?

Op, if you need to, get an account from Rectron, as it might be a bit cheaper in the long run.

Many don't. Rectron is also dumping obsolete stock by lowering prices, but also to sister companies like Corex. So I agree, Rectron is somehow safer to buy blind, but my comment applies also to Rectron. If you buy, up 10% to get a good stuff.

 

[ponder]

And the best thing about that is, if the machines have been taken care of (regular cleaning, rust prevention, connected to a UPS), you wipe the hard drives and then sell them off for R1500 a pop with the screen included. People will snap them up if they're looking for a budget machine or a roll-out on their network and you've netted back R67,500.

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