Shopping For a New Computer - Understanding Total Cost of Ownership

As the owner of a service center computer repair is very common to see clients considering just buying a new computer instead of repairing your existing equipment. Many of these customers tend to believe that a computer $ 300-400 who saw an ad for a department store may be the answer to your problem and eliminate the need for service. While there are models of new computers sold in the range of $ 300-400 the initial purchase price is only one factor to consider when buying a computer. More important than the purchase price is what is known as the total cost of ownership or TCO. Determine the total cost of owning a computer is added to the purchase price and all additional costs associated with the property to determine the actual cost of the computer to its owner over the life of the machine price. Determine the total cost of owning a computer is to add the following:

    
The initial purchase price of the equipment
    
The cost of servicing, maintenance and repair over the life of the equipment
    
The cost of lost productivity at any time the machine was out of service
    
How many years you can expect the equipment to last
As expected, it is common for computers with very low initial price to have the highest total cost of ownership purchase. The inhabitants of the large accounting firms have understood for many years so that you will never see a Fortune 500 company with any model of discount computers you can see on the shelf at Best Buy or Circuit City of the big box stores. Almost all manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc.) has two distinct lines of computers. A line is called computers in class "business" and the other is the "Home" line of computers. The main difference between the two is that the job of computers are built for people who understand TCO. The initial cost of a sales team will always be higher than the line "home", even if the speed of the processor, memory and hard disk size may be the same, but you get a team that is built with best parts, but not necessarily faster, but less likely to break and more economical for the service if it breaks.
Source lines of equipment are built on the basis of a completely different measure - especially that having a broken computer costs nothing. This unfortunately uninformed consumer is often not the case, especially when the computer is no longer under warranty, the new equipment is generally one year. For the type of computer user do-it-yourself system that has a good backup, do not rely on the computer for important business functions and is able to do their own repairs, model the source equipment is sold in department stores are often a good option. For all others, you can take advantage of buying a business class machine. You can find the purchase price and equipment options for business class on the websites of one of the leading manufacturers, or by contacting the technical repair local computer. Many computer service centers also have off lease or refurbished business computers to choose from too.

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