Re: FN-FORUM: PC World vs Dell - recommendations?

date posted 9th January 2004 15:56

Why would you pay more to PC World for a lower spec PC, when you can get
more bang per buck with 3 years next day on site as standard from Dell. Dell
are fine for business use - tech support is in Ireland and they really do
send engineers out. Buy Optiplex, Latitude and Precision, the business
ranges, and negotiate a bulk price. My clients manage to get a discount for
just 5 or 10 machines at a time.

I did training for a rollout a few years ago run by PC World; they were
pretty bad (just about as bad as when they were SCS - impossible to be
worse). Couldn't even choose contractors (presumably) who knew how to do a
corporate rollout as opposed to a home network. I wouldn't even think of
using them for business. They might be better now and it might depend on
your local branch

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain Bruce" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: PC World vs Dell - recommendations?


>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to start an office network upgrade for a client, and one of the
> things being discussed is purchase of new machines.
>
> I'd like to get the machines from PC World, primarily because I haven't
> heard many horror stories regarding PC World support. Yet.
>
> However, the client may want to use Dell, who I've heard plenty of horror
> stories about.
>
> Would anyone have any comments on either of these two companies and their
> PCs/service/support?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> iain
> www.bspin.co.uk
>
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