>On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, James Button wrote:
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>> Personally I would prefer using a 'local' supplier who:
>> has been in the market for at least a year, is shifting a
>> fair volume of PC's, and uses standard - off the shelf parts,
This approach should - in my opinion - be taken with caution, especially if
the local supplier is selling systems at a low price. If they are then
they're undoubtedly using cheap parts that will begin to fail after a year
or so, resulting in a higher TCO than systems from larger suppliers.
Using this sort of supplier can result in a large variety of hardware
(mobos, etc) being used which can in turn cause problems with imaging
software, etc.
Tim.
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