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Buying Corporate PCs

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PCQ Bureau
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Buying corporate PCs is a different ball game compared to buying one machine for your home. For starters, it is not a one- time purchase, and you are likely to buy regularly–as the organization grows and as older machines become outdated. Then, you are likely to buy more than one machine at a time, and for more than one location. Finally, the machines you buy for your office are more likely to be plain, vanilla work horses (to run common productivity applications) than the fully-featured ones that you would choose for your home.

  • PC buying for the office is not a one-time affair. You may want a long-term deal with one or two vendors. But to ensure you are not taken advantage of, keep your eyes open for lower prices. And if you change vendors, ensure that the new vendor will service the existing machines also

  • If you buy branded machines, you can reduce prices even further by delinking some items. For example, monitors coming with most PC brands are costlier than standard monitor brands. If you buy unbranded PCs, then you can opt for motherboards with on-board sound, video and networking (but not built-in modems)

  • Don’t dump old PCs in your basement. Instead, get a buyback deal or donate them to a local NGO working for poor students 

  • One size does not fit all. All employees may not have the same needs. Some do routine productivity work, some do design work, and others are into software development. So, the machines they use will have to be commensurate with their work needs

  • Over time, you can get better and better specs at lower and lower prices. So, you could base your budgets on specs, or on a price point, with the first one increasing over time, and the second, decreasing

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