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PCs, laptops, all-in-ones, tablets

Desktop equipment lives four to five years, so a purchasing decision is a decision for several years ahead. One-off purchases as needs arise turn the office within a couple of years into a set of random models that cannot be maintained properly.

Profiles
two or three models
Warranty
from three years
Loan unit
while the repair is underway
Ready
from day one

What the work includes

We assess not the price tag but the total cost of ownership over the service life: the warranty, parts availability and the person idle time.

Discuss the scope

Profiles by role

Accounting, sales, engineers and managers all work differently, and their equipment should differ too.

Limiting the number of models

The fewer different models, the cheaper the spares, the simpler the system image and the faster the repairs.

Purchase

Invoices, delivery, acceptance against a list with serial numbers checked.

Pre-installation

Everything is deployed in advance: the system, the programs, the access. The employee sits down and works.

After the warranty

Chargeable repair to a price list with agreed timescales once the warranty has ended.

Loan pool

A few machines on standby so that a breakdown does not knock someone out of work for a week.

How it goes

We usually keep within two to three weeks. If an item is scarce we say so before the invoice, not after.

01

Roles and tasks

Who works, in what, whether travel is required. Standard profiles come out of that.

02

List

Configurations with prices and fallback options if the budget is limited.

03

Purchase

Paperwork, delivery, acceptance with an on-site check.

04

Commissioning

We prepare them, enter them in the records and hand them out.

Buying one machine at a time as the need arises costs more than buying a batch. Every such purchase adds a new model, a new power supply and a new set of drivers to the office. Three years later you have a fleet in which no part fits the machine next to it.

Questions and answers

The benchmark is once every four or five years, and not all at once but in yearly batches. Then the budget stays even instead of spiking once every five years. Machines older than five years fail more often, and the cost of servicing them outweighs the saving.

They take up less space and look tidier, but are almost impossible to upgrade: adding memory is still feasible, changing the graphics card or power supply is not. They are usually bought for reception and meeting rooms, where the look of the desk matters.

Only for a specific scenario: walking the warehouse, receiving goods off site, showing materials to a client. As a replacement for a computer they do not work - within a week the employee asks for a keyboard and a screen anyway.

We will build a workstation fleet

Write the number of staff and what they do. In reply we will send standard profiles with prices.